Okay I have no idea what to do...(Installing OSX on SATA)

What do you mean?

I have windows 7 installed on my SATA hardrive that I'm wanting to format.

Sooo are you saying I should try installing Windows XP on it.

How do I set up a boot flag? Is that where I start OSX with " -f " ?

Last thing, What is HFS+?

Thanks for replying

okay I installed Windows XP and tried deleting my hardrive after that and had no luck =/

same error...

Anymore suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

hmmmm damn. I was hoping that a broken hardrive would be the last thing to think about...

I don't know where the kext files are…ahhh oh well...I guess Im going to have to save up for another hard drive "tear"

@TaistoI was having the same problem when trying to format Vista`s partition - it seemed to be locked somehow. Do you have any Linux live cd ? Try Ubuntu for example, delete all partitions, create new one with FAT16 or 32 filesystem ready for OSX. You can manage bootflags with Ubuntu`s manager aswell the easy way if you mean partition`s boot…

Thank you for the suggestion! Im defiantly going to try linux next considering its closer to OSX than windows is ( Unix kernal ^_^ ) hopefully my hardrive is reconised after installing linux on it.

Thank you for the information on HFS+ as well.

The kext that I was talking about was my chipset kext. I have herd that the chipset kext may be whats messing up my attempt to delete my SATA.

@demigod, I'll definitely check out that thread to see if anything will help. Thank you.

Thanks to everyone for all the great support!

Bump.

Sorry but this question I've had has been going on FOREVER.

I love all the great support I've had on it so far but I would just like to know how to "set id=AF for the partition before trying to erase"

It will be the last thing I try that has to do with my SATA hardrive before getting a new one.

Hey, what did u use to partition your HDD? I have experienced the same problme when partitioned with Acronis DIsk Director and finally got problem resolved by repartitioning and use XP's Install CD to partition -- after fresh installing of XP and setting boot flag to the main partition OS X finally saw my HDD and erased it to HFS+.

Good Luck!

Regards,

Kael

I thought I/O means bad hardrive, because when I get those on my flash drives, they can't be used anymore. Edit: this could be a driver problem as well, I've had i/o problems with cd's and my sata dvd writer.

@oneshotWhat do you mean? I have windows 7 installed on my SATA hardrive that I'm wanting to format. Sooo are you saying I should try installing Windows XP on it. How do I set up a boot flag? Is that where I start OSX with " -f " ? Last thing, What is HFS+? Thanks for replying

I was having the same problem when trying to format Vista`s partition - it seemed to be locked somehow. Do you have any Linux live cd ? Try Ubuntu for example, delete all partitions, create new one with FAT16 or 32 filesystem ready for OSX.
You can manage bootflags with Ubuntu`s manager aswell the easy way if you mean partition`s boot flags.
If you mean bootloader`s boot flags - yepp, it`s when you type -f.
And, HFS+ is Apple`s Hierarchical File System used for OSX.

"I don't know where the kext files are" - what kexts files are you looking for ?

Looks like you got a company.any way he passed formating and went through installation .ask him what kext he used.it may help you

MCP68 (Nforce 630a) Serial ATA →

@oneshot"Disk Erase Failed: Input/output error" (and no I'm not erasing it with MS-DOS (FAT) )

I Had the same problem. You should set id=AF for this partition before trying to erase.