ben the fact that you got that message means that the disk needs to be formatted to GUID using disk utility and that may have been the problem in the first place cloning onto unformatted disk may have caused a problem so you booted from the install disk just format the disk using disk install and install OS X if that works you can always try the cloned image again
On 31 Mar 2011, at 20:48, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Thanks for the reply. > > On my way towards this, I realised that I'd tried starting up with AHT, which > failed (I now think it's possible that it was a too-modern version of AHT); > but that I hadn't actually tried booting from an OS X DVD; so I tried that, > which worked and launched the OS X (Leopard, 10.5.6) installer. > > However, when I tried to select the internal (new) hard drive as the > destination, it was debarred with the message: > You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. > Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume. > > I think that this has just done in effect the same as your step 3 below so > that there's no point now trying the exercise with cloning the install DVD to > a USB drive (but please tell me if I've misunderstood). > > So, er, any idea why Leopard won't install on this volume? I formatted by > using Disk Utility to Restore the original internal HD to it, so I assumed > that it was formatted correctly for the purpose; if I switch from installer > to Disk Utility off the DVD, it reports it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled); > with "Owners Enabled: Yes" (I don't know what that means). I'm currently > running permissions verify on it, which has reported a bunch of stuff, but > while that might stop it booting from the current install, it doesn't seem > like it should stop a new OS being installed. > > Is there something physical I should have done to the drive before installing > it - might it need jumpers for master/slave, anything like that? > > thanks again, > > Ben > > On 31/03/2011 17:59, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: >> Hi Ben >> >> If you've got a spare USB hard drive : >> >> 1. Connect the USB hard drive to your working MacBook and insert the OS X >> Installer DVD >> 2. Use Disk Utility to Restore the DVD drive to the USB drive >> 3. Boot the broken MacBook from the USB OS X Installer by holding alt at >> startup >> 4. Reinstall OS X on top of the MacBook's HD >> >> >> Regards >> >> Sam >> >> >> MacAmbulance >> >> Providing affordable Apple & PC services >> >> Sam Mullen >> 07747 778022 >> http://www.macambulance.co.uk >> [email protected] <mailto:[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. >
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