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Hi All,
New around here and have been using Apple products for a while now and work for a reseller although haven't been involved in anything technical before.
A friend has given me his MacBook after he thought the Hard Drive was corrupt, I have replaced it and now need to install OSX to get it working again.
I have entered the discs and thought it should be pretty easy.....
The drive needs formatting so I have gone into disc utility and tried to partition the drive.
If I try to erase the drive or partition I am getting an error message saying
'POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory'
At the moment I am creating a disc image of a new account my iMac and going to try and connect my firewire drive to see if that helps.
As mentioned I am new to any technical stuff so sorry if tyhis seems like a silly question.
Thanks
Ash
New around here and have been using Apple products for a while now and work for a reseller although haven't been involved in anything technical before.
A friend has given me his MacBook after he thought the Hard Drive was corrupt, I have replaced it and now need to install OSX to get it working again.
I have entered the discs and thought it should be pretty easy.....
The drive needs formatting so I have gone into disc utility and tried to partition the drive.
If I try to erase the drive or partition I am getting an error message saying
'POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory'
At the moment I am creating a disc image of a new account my iMac and going to try and connect my firewire drive to see if that helps.
As mentioned I am new to any technical stuff so sorry if tyhis seems like a silly question.
Thanks
Ash