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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 979627" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>'Cannot allocate memory' is to do with the way in which a hard drive is set out when formatted. It appears also in reference to connection with remote servers. All of which doesn't help your situation.</p><p></p><p>What's important is HOW you formatted the hard drive. Let's be clear - it's an <strong>internal</strong> hard drive ... right? ... and you formatted it HFS+ (journaled) so your friend's Mac could boot from it. If that is the case, then what you say about it "sounding bad" may be right.</p><p></p><p>All I can suggest at this stage is another attempt to format the drive. If it again fails, I suspect there is a serious fault with the drive itself, and it may need replacement if you cannot get Disk Utilities to repair it.</p><p></p><p>There is one other option - expensive - and that is Disk Warrior. It does more, and better, than Apple Disk Utilities. For its cost (about US$100) you might be better to take the computer to a tech who has DW to use. I don't know what that might cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 979627, member: 56231"] 'Cannot allocate memory' is to do with the way in which a hard drive is set out when formatted. It appears also in reference to connection with remote servers. All of which doesn't help your situation. What's important is HOW you formatted the hard drive. Let's be clear - it's an [B]internal[/B] hard drive ... right? ... and you formatted it HFS+ (journaled) so your friend's Mac could boot from it. If that is the case, then what you say about it "sounding bad" may be right. All I can suggest at this stage is another attempt to format the drive. If it again fails, I suspect there is a serious fault with the drive itself, and it may need replacement if you cannot get Disk Utilities to repair it. There is one other option - expensive - and that is Disk Warrior. It does more, and better, than Apple Disk Utilities. For its cost (about US$100) you might be better to take the computer to a tech who has DW to use. I don't know what that might cost. [/QUOTE]
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