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 > > 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. Nigel Proctor H T White & Co Ltd [email protected] 07792 000619 -- 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.
