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I have had the same promlem before....if formating the hard drive doesn't work...try another hard drive...

But did you run Microsoft's Scan Disk, or some other utility, to map out the bad sectors after reformatting the HD?

Depending upon the method you used to reformat, the bad sector table may not have been updated during the formatting. It only takes a few bad sectors to pooch the process of reinstalling any OS.

I had a PowerBook G4 (a laptop) on which I was trying to reinstall Tiger...but the reinstall would go belly-up about halfway through, despite the fact that I did a quick reformat of the HD before hand. It was only after I ran the Mac OS Disk Utility-->Erase-->Zero out data that I could get Tiger to reinstall. Zeroing out the data in the Mac environment takes a long time, but it fully updates the bad sector table on the HD. Once all the bad sectors were mapped out, Tiger reinstalled without a hitch.

Just my $0.02.

--Two Shoes

12 posted on 03/11/2007 6:05:03 AM PDT by Two-Shoes (There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get binary, and those who don't.)

I did run scan dsk and fixdsk also. my drives were old they had problems. when I installed a new hd the problem went away.

I also have a mac mini and a mac book.
what I really want is a Mac Pro...I do music recording (home studio)which I use the PC for.The Mac Pro would be so much better. Only thing I would need new software as for what I use now doesn't work with apple

16 posted on 03/11/2007 10:12:13 AM PDT by Gone_Postal (Communism works only in Heaven, where they don’t need it, and in Hell, where they’ve already got it.)

That's an idea that I never considered. Putting the HD as a slave on another machine and running the scandisk from there. Thanks

25 posted on 03/11/2007 6:46:23 PM PDT by perfect stranger

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