Hello Sarah You can only boot an Intel® Mac using the Guide partition table. So if you used the Erase tab, (there's no format tab in Disk Utility), it must have already been partitioned correctly. There's no getting around it Sarah; you must use that partition scheme and that's all there is to it.
Lynne On 13 Jul 2011, at 19:18, Sarah Alawami wrote: Huh? Actually what I did was I just went to format and reformated the thing. no need to go to partitioning anything. I did this on a 2 tb elements drive and it worked flawlesly. On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello Sarah & Mark > > Sarah; you missed quite a lot of detail here so i will try and give Mark > step-by-step help. > > 1. From the Finder, press Command+Shift+U to open your Utilities folder. > Otherwise, navigate through to "/Applications/Utilities/" then find, and open > "Disk Utility.app". > 2. You'll probably need to press the "Tab" key once to bring focus on to the > list of selected devices. Highlight the device you wish to work with in the > table. > 3. Press "Tab" and you'll hear the list of available tabs. The default is > "First Aid". Move your cursor using the unmodified arrow keys until you hit > the "Partition" tab. Then press VoiceOver+Space to select it. > 4. Where you hear "Current Partition Scheme" modify that setting to "1 > Partition". > 5. Move to the "Options" button and activate it. > 6. in the list of partition types, make sure you select the "Guide" partition > table. That's the only type from which an Intel Mac can boot. Then hit OK, > and apply. > > You should then find it works as you expected. This is only from memory; I'm > not actually doing that as I type so it's possible I missed something minor, > but essentially the process is correct. But looking for the "Format" tab is > misleading because there isn't such a tab. > > Lynne > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 01:09, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > You need to select yoru disk's title under the main disk area where > partitions is. then you should be able to find the tabs that it mentions. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me my info is below. MSN and AIM: [email protected] website: http://music.marrie.org Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
