Dreamkey Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Hello, I have an Inspiron 1501 with an AMD Turion 64 bits x2 TL-56 (1.8Ghz), an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150, a Dell Broadcom 1490 wireless, a Sigmatel chipset for audio and a 160Gb hard disk. I have make a partition of 20Gb ; when I tried to format it with the Disk Utility, it doesn't make anything... Here is two photos : There is a NTFS partition for Windows XP, another NTFS for my data and a reiserFS for Ubuntu. What can I do ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mast3rpyr0 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Goto the erase tab and erase the partition you want and select the Mac OS X Journal option (or whatever the top option is) and not just erase free space, hit the erase button in the bottom right corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamkey Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 I have already do this, the two photos is what I obtain after trying to erase the partition ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtp Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I had the same problem. Tried so many times formatting the partition in both FAT32 or NTFS, but no luck! The problem is when iPC OS X DVD boot, it can't mounted your hard drive so that why you couldn't erase or reformat to Mac OS Journal (extended). Don't waste you time like I did! So I came up with the idea booting with the different DVD Kalyway 10.5.1 to format the partition to Mac OS Journal (extended) because I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 before and it worked! After I got the partition formatted to Mac OS Journal (ext.) with the Kalyway 10.5.1, I quit the Installer and restart. Put back the iPC OS X DVD in and install. Finally, it worked! It mounted the partition. To be sure, just before install go to the Disk Utility again and Verify it. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamkey Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 Thanks a lot for your answer I will say if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamkey Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 No... it doesn't work Kalyway better recognise my NTFS partition (used space etc...) but it doesn't want to format my partion. If I try to verify or repair the partition, I get this : But in Windows, I have install MacDrive, and it say that it is a HFS+ partition... I'm lost ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamkey Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 Up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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