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need help installing leopard on external HD
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I am going to try to make a backup of leopard onto my 2TB extrenal hard drive. When i go to install it, the drive comes up with explanation mark and says: "Mac OS X cannot startup from this drive."

My laptop is a powerbook G4 and the external hard drive is formatted using the Apple Partition Map.

Anybody Help?
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#2
You will need either shrink your existing (NTFS?) partition and add a HFS[+] partition or just make the whole thing HFS[+]
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#3
How can I do that for free?Thumbsup
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#4
Use >>
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http://www.partition-manager.com/

If you want it for free mail me
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#5
Thanks Dunlop03, I paid for it though.

I've got a new problem though, when I go to install leopard, it says,"Install Failed, the installer could not locate the data needed to install OS X"

help?

I made 2 partitions on the HD 1 160GB (For Leopard) and 1 1.8TB (For Other Stuff)
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#6
You need to partition your internal HD not your external
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HOLD UP, You PAYED for the program?!?! - OS X has its own partition manager that is accessible via the CD...please don't tell me you payed for it.
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DAMN! oh well Sad at least im being the honest person Smile

again, i have a new problem. the installer starts to work until it starts to install the essentials.pkg file, then it stops and says "Install Failed! Mac OS X could not install some files on /Leopard 10.5.
it goes fine up until that specific point (about 54% through install the essentials package)

Why do i need to partition my internal HD if im installing on an external HD?
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#9
LOL that seems complicated. Just jumping out of Topic here, but can one of you give me or pm me a link to download Snow Leopard for free? Any one? But I dont want to do the DVD process, can I just download it and run it on the mac itself?
And Also, Ive heard that you dont need a Serial Key, is that right?
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(11-23-2009, 04:35 PM)tommyisfuego1 Wrote: LOL that seems complicated. Just jumping out of Topic here, but can one of you give me or pm me a link to download Snow Leopard for free? Any one? But I dont want to do the DVD process, can I just download it and run it on the mac itself?
And Also, Ive heard that you dont need a Serial Key, is that right?

Usually I'd be all for grabbing something from TPB but honestly it's just $30.
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