Alex_IW Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 So first of all, let me point out that I am new to all of this.. So, I have 10.4.8 JaS release, "Mac OSX 10.48 - JaS [PPF1 + PPF2].iso"... I have 2 hardisks on my PC, and I want to triple boot OSx86, XP, and linux (Ubuntu) on my pc.. I have prepared one partition for Mac, and formatted it to FAT32 on windows.. When I launch the Mac DVD, everything is going well, until I reach the disc utility.. It detects all my harddrivers, however, when I try to erase (format) my Mac partition, it simply changes the pointer to the "working" pointer, and nothing happens.. I waited for about 30 minutes (I tried twice), and nothing simply happened, the computer wasn't working, and it looked like the process didn't even start. Considering that I tried to format just a 8 GB partition, I can't understand how can it take so long... Eventually, I restarted the PC (manually), and I found out that all the partitions on the hardisk with the Mac partition were corrupted.. Luckily, I was able to recover all my partition using a small program on Windows, and after the recovery proccess, Norton PartitionMagic didn't show that 8 GB partition, and those 8 GB turned to unallocated.. I have no idea what the problem might be.. I can only think of one thing, perhaps I downloaded a little bit corrupted copy.. Can it be the source of the problem? Should I try to redownload the DVD? I'll apreciate if someone could help me, Alex Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86555-disk-utitlity-stucks-while-tryig-to-format-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeeedZzZZ999 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hey Alex, I do have a few problems here too. But in your case I maybe would give Mac OS X v10.4.10 a shot. And you might want to try using the Arconis partition tool and its os-selector. Also I did figure out so far not every hard drive seems to be compatible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86555-disk-utitlity-stucks-while-tryig-to-format-partition/#findComment-614608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEALDany Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hi guys.. I have the same problem here.. what's your HDD type? SATA? I have a ATA HDD, a ATA DVD Drive and two SATA HDDs. I'm trying to install 10.5.1 AMD version with a MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NVidia Chipset) in a SATA HDD.. I tried formating the partition to HFS+ in windows with MacDisk but now the installer says something about Locked Bus and the Disk Utility can't see the partition created.. Wrong thread but stills happens with Tiger's Disk Utility... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86555-disk-utitlity-stucks-while-tryig-to-format-partition/#findComment-614617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeeedZzZZ999 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Here's another way, but I did not test it myself. Use Acronis Disk Director and make a FAT32 partition, but change the type to shagos swap, then boot the disk. Once you are in the Disk-Utility, erased the FAT32 with that shagos swap, it should create a partition. Let us know if it does work on your machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86555-disk-utitlity-stucks-while-tryig-to-format-partition/#findComment-614661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_IW Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Sorry for not replying in those 3 days, however, NeeedZzZZ999, your advice helped a lot, tnx! I'm sure however that one of the reasons for not working was because I had a corrupted DVD, I think that I got the PPF1 version (without PPF2).. Currently however, I downloaded Leopard 10.5.1, because I have other problems installing Tiger (probably they happened because of a corrupted DVD).. Tnx a lot for the help anyway! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86555-disk-utitlity-stucks-while-tryig-to-format-partition/#findComment-617916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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