Hi Nigel If the installation started, then complained halfway through that the installation can't continue, that generally is either a RAM or hard drive fault.
If you've elected to write the drive with zeros (Security options > Zero Disk) then that will take around 3 hours for a large(ish) drive. If you've just done a standard erase and it's going to take 3 hours then I'd say there's a hardware fault with the hard drive. The drive needs to be GUID partitioned if it's an intel mac and Apple Partition Map if it's PowerPC, click on the drive in Disk Utility (the drive, not the named volume underneath the drive) > click on the Partition tab > select 1 partition from the menu that says "Current Configuration" > click on options underneath the partition display > select the correct partition type > click Apply. If it takes 3 hours there's something wrong with the drive. Regards Sam providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
