- Joined
- Jan 7, 2010
- Messages
- 3
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 1
Hi, i'm new so go easy, kind of a novice. My harddrive recently went crazy on me and i've resorted to just erasing the whole drive and was trying to reinstall mac os x 10.4.11 on my powerbook g4. when i tried to install that i couldn't get it to work, the install would either freeze, or say "error installing software please restart". i gave up on that, so now i'm trying to just install it on my external drive (seagate freeagent go) and it seems i have to partition it to a GUID. i've looked up how to change the partition type to GUID so i know what i should do,
but the problem is when i'm at the step that says go to "options..." while in the partition tab, on my disk utility it says "no options available" so i can't change it to begin with. no matter what i do, trying to set the volume scheme to 1 or 2 partitions, the "options..." button isn't even there.
apparently on the intel-based macs and what not, you just erase the drive and that resets it to GUID (from what i've read) but when i check the info on the drive afterwards, it still says it's an apple partition scheme. i need it to be GUID so i can install mac os x onto my external drive. but it also seems to not work just erasing it either.
is there any other way to change it to GUID, some program i can download (except i would need to do that through my windows), or to get the options button to show up? this is driving me crazy.
any help would be appreciated, thanks.
but the problem is when i'm at the step that says go to "options..." while in the partition tab, on my disk utility it says "no options available" so i can't change it to begin with. no matter what i do, trying to set the volume scheme to 1 or 2 partitions, the "options..." button isn't even there.
apparently on the intel-based macs and what not, you just erase the drive and that resets it to GUID (from what i've read) but when i check the info on the drive afterwards, it still says it's an apple partition scheme. i need it to be GUID so i can install mac os x onto my external drive. but it also seems to not work just erasing it either.
is there any other way to change it to GUID, some program i can download (except i would need to do that through my windows), or to get the options button to show up? this is driving me crazy.
any help would be appreciated, thanks.