Okey dokey, will try all of that.

Many thanks as always....

N
On 9 Feb 2010, at 16:50, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:

> 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
> 
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