difficulty installing mac os x on new drive

Creamy Goodness

bought one of them 250 gig samsung hard drives of komplett there during the week, and i have installed physically into the macbook,it no bother there.

problem comes trying to install mac os x.

i get to the installer but before this i partitioned the drive - into one big 232.9 gig partition - and continued then with the installation.

i let the installation verify my OS X disc - which took ages btw - and then the installation started.

about 2 minutes into the installation and before any of the blue progress bar moved from left to right i got an error message saying something along the lines of "installation cannot continue", it gave the options to restart / startup disk / shut down. so i restarted and i went into the installation again.


back into the installation i went and said i'd try verify the disk, and it verified so i said, i'll go and install the OS again.

i skip the checksum on the DVD as it completed last time with no errors.

now i selected a custom install and remove some things i don't need - like office 2006 trial etc. - and start the install again...

now some blue progress bar comes up (probably a mm in length) with the message "verifying target volume" and it's just stuck there, no HD whurring no DVD spinning.

surely it should be doing something??

any replies greatly appreciated.

babypink

hate to ask the obvious...but is there a chance the HD is a dud?

Creamy Goodness

damn curse my luck about 2 minutes after reading this it starts installing :rolleyes:

Creamy Goodness

drive must be foobared, it's now writing files and it's saying 23hours left

triple h

this might sound like a stupid question and i am asking it now cause it just hit me. I am writing this down as it comes into my head, seems like a good question to me.

Ok, i will most likely upgrade to leopard ( 95% certain to do so) and i am going to have to buy one of those things ( spare hard drives) for storing back-ups. (I like this idea cause i am to lazy to back-up by nature.) My question --- When i buy this device all i do is just plug it in and thats it, ok, i may have to tell my computer to put the info on it, there is no funny stuff like installing here. The OP was just replacing his hard drive with a new one, in his computer. riiiiiiiiiight.

i have never bought a spare hard drive and lord, i would never thinker with the computer like taking something that was not broke and putting something new in.

Creamy Goodness

well the thing is, i've tinkered with computer since i have been 13 - now 21 - i know what i was doing, everything went fine until the installation of OS X and it's still going on right beside whilst i reluclently (sp?) use my pc.

atm it's sitting at

writing files : 19% complete

about 22 hours and 33 minutes remaining.

i'm half thinking of sticking in the other 250gig hard drive i got - for a backup device - into the macbook to see if it is the drive that's the problem.

babypink

do it!

triple h

Cremo wrote:

atm it's sitting at

writing files : 19% complete

about 22 hours and 33 minutes remaining.

.

another thought just struck me.

I was going to wait until the new mac OS comes out to back up things. There is going to be a lot of stuff by then and this is going to take lot of time. I might get this device when i come back from my holidays. I was wondering Cremo, how much data are you transferring, 22 hours is a long time....

Creamy Goodness

the install was saying 15.7gigs.

Creamy Goodness

lol was definitely the drive, swapped it for the other new one (western digital) and i'm up to 14% already.

this is the last time i'll order from komplett, it's my second RMA and if this one takes as long as the first one i'll be on my second mac computer by the time i get it back

Creamy Goodness

i'm back up and running now with os x, those were a few hairy hours.

got a sata enclosure coming tomorrow so i'm going to test the samsung drive in that, if it's ok for reading and writing to - which i doubt considering it's poopy performance during the install - then i'll keep it for the enclosure and stick my orignal hard drive that came with the macbook in my ps3 happy days.

ahh to be using camino again and to have my "homer sez!" (random homer simpson quotes) widget.

and ahh to have my macbook finally the way i want it in terms of hardware
2gig of ram 250gig hard drive.

Oriel

Cremo wrote:

and ahh to have my macbook finally the way i want it in terms of hardware
2gig of ram 250gig hard drive.

Congrats! It's just a pitty it's tacky white!

*hopes it's not a Blackbook

turly

See this page http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2-5,review-2376-4.html

It is possible that your Samsung was affected by this. In any event, Tom's Hardware were pretty impressed by the price/performance of the Sammy, and in particular it's better in every benchmark than the corresponding WD drive.

Once it has the correct firmware, that is :-)

--turly
http://www.finderpop.com - Mac OS 8/9/X utility - 10 years old this year!

Creamy Goodness

cool i'll try that out.

originally the samsung was picked for the macbook as they are so quiet and quick like seagate but seagate didn't have a 250gig model out when i went to buy the drives.

if i update the firmware and it makes the drive work, it shall be going into the macbook instead, if not it's RMA time i might even skip komplett and send it off to samsung for a replacement.

thanks for the links but what's finderpop do their website doesn't give a clear view on what it does or maybe i've gone totally blind.

Oriel wrote:

Congrats! It's just a pitty it's tacky white!

*hopes it's not a Blackbook

i decided against the white one for one reason, i went into the 3G store to play around with the macbook and it was filthy, now i know it would of been mauled by every tom, dick and harry but i somehow thought well the black will hide this if it ever happens to mine probably still will at the rate i'm using my macbook

440Hz

Any paint peeling off your Bl-Macbook yet?

turly

Cremo wrote:

thanks for the links but what's finderpop do their website doesn't give a clear view on what it does or maybe i've gone totally blind.

I really need to update that webpage - it's not exactly informative...

The FinderPop manual is online http://www.finderpop.com/manual/201/manual.html
Here's the first few lines of the manual...

FinderPop is a Universal Preference pane that extends OS X's contextual menus using a FinderPop Items folder much as the Apple Menu Items folder used to do for the Apple menu. It has other features too:

• Control-free popup in the Finder - handy for those with one-button mice.
• a launcher that takes up zero screen real estate, merely a click on any blank area of menubar away,
• a handy filesystem browser, allowing quick and easy access to files and disks in the Finder,
• a Processes menu (Command-click a blank menubar area.)
• fast access to 'Where's that dratted file I had on the Desktop?' (Shift-Click a blank menubar area.)
• a comprehensive collection of vaguely beer-related aphorisms in the Aboutbox.

Basically you have a FinderPop Items folder, into which you place aliases of your most-commonly-used documents/apps/folders/disks/servers, etc. Every time you control-click (right-click), these items get added to the contextual menu, and can operate on whatever it was you right-clicked...

Breezer

Any update to this? Was it the firmware? And if so, how do you update it?

Bought the same drive and it's giving me grief too. Verified the install DVD and then went to verify the drive - "There were errors installing the software. Please try installing again." Very helpful :rolleyes:

turly

Breezer wrote:

Any update to this? Was it the firmware? And if so, how do you update it?

Bought the same drive and it's giving me grief too. Verified the install DVD and then went to verify the drive - "There were errors installing the software. Please try installing again." Very helpful :rolleyes:

Google is your friend.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=131&orderNum=1

Unfortunately this talks about making a boot CD for a PC. And I don't know if it really fixes the MBP problem, though it sounds like it should.

See also:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=137478&page=5

Creamy Goodness

i got a pc and made that iso cd and done a dvd aswell just to make sure and i booted the pc with that and connected the samsung,

the boot program said something like volume c can't be found aborting loader yadda yadda.

i gave up and am just using the drive as an external hard drive in a enclosure as it works perfectly (transfered 140 gigs to it last night took under a hour which is good going).

using the western digital scorpio(n) in my macbook and i couldn't be happier, it boots OSX in 15 seconds (well to the log in screen), and has a bootcamp partition running too.

ohh and parallels is an awesome product, installed the trial last night and i'm buying it as soon as i can get $70.

Breezer

I remembered Google existed shortly after I posted! And yeah, turly, that's the download that worked. Thanks for your help in any case! Everything's working fine now

Cremo you seem happy with your set up but just in case you change your mind, I can confirm that the drive will work fine inside the Macbook. Oh, and before you buy Parallels have a look at VMWare Fusion - I've heard bad things about Parallels 3.0.

Creamy Goodness

breezer you get that boot disk to work?, i'd really would like the samsung drive in the macbook and seeing as i'm only working on a 3-day install of OSX i wouldn't mind if i could get the samsung in there.

but the boot cd just won't work for me.

Breezer

Yeah it worked in about ten seconds. I burned it from a PC using ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/v2.htm.