hard drive

[unbentcrayfish]

I need to reformat my mac OS X hard drive so i can partition it so i can get windows XP on it... But, i lost my startup disk! how can i do it. My brother said to hold down c or x when starting up but when did that, i held both down at the same time though, the disk utility still wasnt working the way i needed it to. The option to erase my hd or what ever the button is still isnt clickable.... what do i do!??????????

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

is it the internal drive you are trying to format ? Or an external drive?

Is it the drive with the Mac OS on it ?

regards

Ric

 

[unbentcrayfish]

internal and mac OS X 10.5.8 and other info:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.31f0
Serial Number (system): RM841G610P1
Hardware UUID: D03AEA5F-7A85-5726-924C-60E357******
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

 

[Ric]

Are you going to use boot camp, if you are then it will partition it for you...

Run the Boot Camp Assistant.

regards

Ric

 

[unbentcrayfish]

no i am trying to use boot camp but it wont partition it says Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.