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SATA HDD Experience

I Started this thread to share some experience and hope it helps someone, After ive tried to Install Zeph's Leo on a ACER AM2 x64 4400 Machine with SATA Drive (320Gb) it didnt let me format the drive, so After a lot of CD's trying to Seek…

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@rumar4u Published 2008-02-09
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I Started this thread to share some experience and hope it helps someone, After ive tried to Install Zeph's Leo on a ACER AM2 x64 4400 Machine with SATA Drive (320Gb) it didnt let me format the drive, so After a lot of CD's trying to Seek for a Answer i saw that UBUNTU Linux with its Live CD did actually gave me access to Mac Drives and Win Drives and i just saw there was like some kind of Encryption on the Beginning of the SATA HDD (abount 9 Gb) so with the UBUNTU Linux i was able to break all partitions and finally install Leo

Hope this info Helps anyone

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Author Update #1 @rumar4u 2008-02-09

Yes its the recovery, but actually did interfere as it didnt let me partition the Disc Nor Format it, anyways i left it the way it was... and install Vista over it, but thanks for the Reply

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Field Note #1 @nighteye 2008-02-09

I think that's the Acer recovery data for operating system, it's a hidden partition but should not interfere with your installation of Mac OS X.

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