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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2007Can't install OS X on new hard drive
I have a new hard drive, Western Digital WD Scorpio 80 GB, installed in my G4 Powerbook. I went through the erase process with Disk Utility (which I was told is the way to format or initialize a new HD) and partitioned it also. Now when I select a partition to install as a "destination", it says "You cannot install MacOS X on this volume. You cannot start up your computer using this volume." Great, so I go to "Change startup disk" and it doesn't give the hard drive as an option because it doesn't have any OS on it! I restarted but it didn't help. I erased again without partitioning, that didn't help. Looking all over the web for info but can't find anything helpful. This is crazy. Thanks a lot for any help, Jim > I have a new hard drive, Western Digital WD Scorpio 80 GB, installed in > my G4 Powerbook. I went through the erase process with Disk Utility [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the web for info but can't find anything helpful. This is crazy. Thanks > a lot for any help, Did you partition it "Mac OS Extended Journaled?"  SignatureW. Oates >> I have a new hard drive, Western Digital WD Scorpio 80 GB, installed in >> my G4 Powerbook. I went through the erase process with Disk Utility [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Did you partition it "Mac OS Extended Journaled?" That's a file system format, not a partition format. Partition formats available from Disk Utility are: Apple Partition Map GUID Partition Table Master Boot Record You can boot a PPC Mac only from the Apple Partition Map. You can boot an Intel Mac only from the GUID Partition Table. You can set up a file system using HFS+, HFS+ Journaled, HFS+ Case Sensitive, HFS+ Case Sensitive Journaled, UFS, FAT, and FAT32 on any partition map. Note that some file system options may not be available for certain size drives; volumes smaller than 2 GB can't be formatted FAT32, volumes larger than 2 GB can't be formatted FAT, and some restrictions apply to HFS+ Case Sensitive and UFS volumes. The above applies only to Disk Utility. There are (or were) other formatting utlities which may behave differently. Signatureemail to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. > That's a file system format, not a partition format. Partition formats > available from Disk Utility are: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Master Boot Record You're right of course; I was trying to simplify the GUI experience a bit. SignatureW. Oates >> That's a file system format, not a partition format. Partition formats >> available from Disk Utility are: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > You're right of course; I was trying to simplify the GUI experience a > bit. Yeah. I hope the OP figured out what was happening. I suspect a partitioning problem. Signatureemail to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. > I have a new hard drive, Western Digital WD Scorpio 80 GB, installed in > my G4 Powerbook. I went through the erase process with Disk Utility > (which I was told is the way to format or initialize a new HD) and > partitioned it also. Ah... did you just erase the drive, or did you reset the partition? This is important. If you just erased the drive, your drive could have the old partition scheme on it. PPC Macs cannot, repeat CAN NOT, boot from a drive which is partitioned using any partition scheme other than Apple Partition Map. Intel Macs cannot, repeat, CAN NOT, boot from a drive which is partitioned using any partition scheme other than GUID Partition Table. Every single third-party drive I have ever seen ships from the vendor using the Master Boot Record partition scheme... which _no_ Mac can boot from. > Now when I select a partition to install as a > "destination", it says "You cannot install MacOS X on this volume. You [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the web for info but can't find anything helpful. This is crazy. Thanks > a lot for any help, Boot the machine from either the System disc which shipped with the machine or from an external hard drive, or in Target Disk Mode. If you boot from the System disc, you can get to Disk Utility using the Install menu. If you boot from an external disk or in Target Disk Mode, Disk Utility is in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Launch Disk Utility. Click on the drive itself in the left pane in DU. (It should have a name like '80 GB WD') Select the Partition pane Look at the bottom of the window and see which partition scheme is in use. If you don't see 'Apple Partition Map' you will have to repartition the drive. Click the 'Option' button, select 'Apple Partition Map' from the dialog which pops up, click 'Okay', click 'Partition', click 'Partition'. You have repartitioned your drive, and it should now have the proper partition map. You have also deleted anything that was on the drive. You will have to reinstall the OS. If you booted from the System disc, select the Installer from the Install menu. If you didn't boot from the System disc, reboot from the System disc. If you don't have a System disc, get one. Signatureemail to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. |
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