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Old 01-29-2010, 01:56 AM
l2ounak l2ounak is offline
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Red face Cannot Format Internal HDD!
Hey guys, Ive tried almost every distro and only iPC and iDeneb recognize my internal hard drive!
I successfully installed it onto my external drive but couldnt get the wifi working. But its no point for OSx to be on an external drive since i would have to carry it around!

So when I try to format my drive or even partition it, it gives me an error "Input/Output Error"
I also created partitions from Windows 7 (Created NTFS, FAT32)
I also used Partition Magic (GParted) to make HFS+.
Everything is being detected but cant be erased/formatted nor partitioned from disk utility!!
I really dont know how to get through this, Ive been looking for a solution for about 2 weeks now Please look into this!

The drive is totally formatted and it has nothing on it! Right now i have windows 7 installed but i am willing to format it again as long as i can be able to format through Disk Utility at the time of installation!

Please guys, help me on this!

Thanks a lot in advance
HP Pavillion dv6500
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53
Motherboard Manufacturer - Quanta, Model - 30CF
Chipset and Southbridge - NVIDIA nForce 560
BIOS: Brand - HP, Version - F.07, Date - 08/09/2007
Memory: 1024 MB DDR2
GPU - Standard VGA Graphics Adapter A1
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Old 01-29-2010, 02:23 AM
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Sounds like some kinda chipset incompatability , or controller incompatability for you hard drive, Is it an IDE interface or other?




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Old 01-30-2010, 06:00 AM
l2ounak l2ounak is offline
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Sounds like some kinda chipset incompatability , or controller incompatability for you hard drive, Is it an IDE interface or other


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how would you find out regarding whether it is IDE or other?
HP Pavillion dv6500
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53
Motherboard Manufacturer - Quanta, Model - 30CF
Chipset and Southbridge - NVIDIA nForce 560
BIOS: Brand - HP, Version - F.07, Date - 08/09/2007
Memory: 1024 MB DDR2
GPU - Standard VGA Graphics Adapter A1
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Old 06-19-2010, 07:22 PM
JohnnyBoyClub JohnnyBoyClub is offline
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I think the best way is to insert your operating boot cd and reinstall all , or make a bootable disket to enter the console and format it from there.
After this you should allways backup ur software with a free one like http://www.dmailer.com/dmailer-backup.html.
Is a free software that offers you the ability to store the backup online on their servers , and also it has a lot of usefull features in it.


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Last edited by JohnnyBoyClub; 06-19-2010 at 07:26 PM.
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