soulfly7 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Ok this problem has got me completely stumped. I'm trying to install 10.4.3 and everytime I try to format my hard drive in Disk Utility, I always get an error that says "Disk Erase Failed: Input/Output Error." I've got two hard drives in my PC, one a SATA with a Windows installation and the other one an ATA drive I"m trying to install OS X on. The ATA drive has no other partitions and I've followed the directions exactly using Diskpart to create a partition with id=af. My system is an Athlon 64 3500+ venice core with an ECS KLN Extreme lite board so I don't know if its just my hardware is incompatible, although from what I've seen it should be. Any help on this would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulfly7 Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-65224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I'm not sure if it will make a difference, but you could try making the initial partition in something else, like partition magic, acronis disk, or even the XP disk manager, and then use diskpart (or acronis) to offset to 'af'. Not sure, maybe you did anyways, but if not, give it a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-65238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 If you are formatting and partitioning this ATA disk, for OS X only, and there is nothing else on it, do the following. Use the Disk Utility on your install DVD to repartition the drive (you don't need to prep it in another utility like diskpart). Repartition it as one partition (the default) and put in your volume name, and leave the default (Journaled) filesystem. Now you have your HFS+ partition, filling the whole drive, which the installer should see just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-65244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geniuisazr Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I have the same problem. If you are formatting and partitioning this ATA disk, for OS X only, and there is nothing else on it, do the following. Use the Disk Utility on your install DVD to repartition the drive (you don't need to prep it in another utility like diskpart). Repartition it as one partition (the default) and put in your volume name, and leave the default (Journaled) filesystem. Now you have your HFS+ partition, filling the whole drive, which the installer should see just fine. I have tried, it doesnt work. Any other ideas Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-108925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jacholson Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I had the same prob and fixed it by prepairing the disk with diskpart as "af"-type. then meanwhile the installation of osx, go to the disk utility and format it first as hfs (not journaled!), this should work after you got it formated you can format it as hfs(journaled). voila! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-109169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geniuisazr Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 I had the same prob and fixed it by prepairing the disk with diskpart as "af"-type. then meanwhile the installation of osx, go to the disk utility and format it first as hfs (not journaled!), this should work after you got it formated you can format it as hfs(journaled). voila! Didnt work. Any other ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10186-problem-trying-to-format-to-hfs/#findComment-109334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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