personally i think specs are ok could do with more memory. I have it running on a dell D600 Latitude. Yes depending how drives have been treated before you can have probs trying to partition then format. One option is to get some of the drive tools available out there made by the drive manufaturers (Seagate tools etc). Regarding kexts if you can see the drive there is no reason you cant wipe or format it wont be a kext issue (or highley unlikely) but how its been partitioned befor can have effects

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