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4 Aug 2009If you’re trying to install Mac OS X on a hard disk that you’ve connected to your Intel-based Mac, you may see this alert in Installer and be unable to select the disk for installation: “You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume.” The Mac OS X installer prevents you from installing on to a disk that uses a non-native partition scheme (or to any volumes on that disk). PowerPC-based Macs and Intel-based Macs have different native partition schemes (see additional information below).
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"You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume…" alert in Installer
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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1 Response to "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume…" alert in Installer
Bill Wilson
September 16th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Ok, Here’s a good one Power PC booted to Leopard installer hooked to a Intel iMac in Target Disk Mode because it has no Screen. Busted LCD. Install of OS HAS TO USE the primary screen of the computer it is booted from, no option. Since it a Power PC it tells you that it cannot install to a GUID partition, has to be Apple Partition Map, which is wrong, wrong wrong! SO I’m looking for an overide. I feel like I’m being Big Mothered. There has to be a way around this and I’m too fuzzy right now to see it. Held down option key cmd option etc. Now where could they have hid it?