elstevedore Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 So my OSX86 install is working really well except that it's installed on a really old/slow 60GB IDE hard drive. I moved some things around and now I want to move my OSX86 installation to a 80GB SATA drive to improve performance. The first thing I did was format the 80GB SATA drive (HFS+ Journaled, MBR) with diskutility. That went fine, so I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my OSX startup disk from the 60GB IDE to the 80GB SATA drive. That worked fine too, but then I found that I couldn't actually boot from the SATA drive. I decided to reformat the SATA drive and start over, but this time when I tried to format the drive in diskutility, it got stuck a couple seconds in and Leopard crashed about a minute later with the "You need to restart your computer" screen. I tried booting from the installation DVD and formating there, but got the same result. I know SATA is working under OSX because I can see my other SATA (windows) drive in OSX. I know the disk itself is working because I am still able to format the 80GB SATA drive as NTFS from Windows. Why does it crash the OS when I try to format the disk, especially when it worked fine the first time I did the exact same thing? Any ideas? My system: MSI P6N Platinum Intel E6750 CPU 2GB Corsair PC6400 RAM EVGA GeForce 8800GT BENQ 1640 Burner 60GB IDE (OSX) 80GB SATA (broken?) 250GB SATA (Windows Vista) 250GB USB (data) 500GB USB (more data) Installed with Kalyway 10.5.1, Latest AppleNForceATA.kext, and 10.5.2 Beta NVidia kexts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85446-can-no-longer-format-sata-disk-that-woked-before/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Did you try and format with osx again after the ntfs format? Just curious. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85446-can-no-longer-format-sata-disk-that-woked-before/#findComment-606340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elstevedore Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Did you try and format with osx again after the ntfs format? Just curious. I sure did. Same problem. I also tried just removing the partition from Windows and leaving the drive empty. Again, no dice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85446-can-no-longer-format-sata-disk-that-woked-before/#findComment-606344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elstevedore Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Bump. Anybody? I'm starting to wonder if the disk has some sort of hardware problem. After I try to format the drive and it crashes the system, the drive doesn't appear in the POST until I power off the system. But I never had a problem using the disk under Windows. Weird huh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85446-can-no-longer-format-sata-disk-that-woked-before/#findComment-608350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 very strange indeed. are your cables 100% working? did you tried to format with linux? or one of those manufactures-recovery-disks/cds? (see e.g. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85446-can-no-longer-format-sata-disk-that-woked-before/#findComment-608483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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