Alex, thanks so much for the £20 - that is very generous. Please let me know when it arrives!
I forgot to mention earlier; there are three transportation screws and they are underneath the beogram. I had expected them t be under the platter. Regards, Andrew On 10 Feb 2010, at 1:53 pm, nigel proctor wrote: > All done and dusted...thanks for the info. > > There's nothing quite like a new install and a clean (and somewhat faster) > machine. > > Cheers Sam > > > 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. -- 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.
