i tried to erase with zeroes as well, but it just freezes at "preparing..."

what i did is to connect my sata hdd with a external hard drive case, and have that case attached to my pc via usb cable (works the same as external hard drive)

and the installation went smoothly. so i think it should has something to do with the chipset in my case.

but i'm getting Kernel panic every single time i try to boot max os. so i think i'll take some pics next time and see if anybody can help me on this. at the meanwhile, i'm still looking forward to zeph's ver.2.

btw, is it possible to install kext for mac os in windows? i use mac drive to visit the mac partition in windows.

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The Inspiron 531 uses a motherboard manufactured by Gigabyte for Dell. It uses a nVidia nForce 4 chipset with an on-board video card. It also has on-board sound (Realtek) and an on-board gigabit NIC. It has one PCIe x16, One PCIe x1, and two PCI card slots. It has four DIMM memory slots, and four SATA connectors. The 531 motherboard does not support PATA or IDE drives without the use of a third-party controller.