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can't install Windows on Mac hard drive?
Name: Robby Date: December 20, 2001 at 03:11:36 Pacific
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Hello Mac people happy holidays got Mac IBM hard drive it says on it built to apple specification. I was able to fdisk/mbr and also copy Windows .cab files to the drive but when I try to install Windows it locks on scandisk and the drive beeps I am able to install Dos 6.22 but type c:\help and the drive also locks and beeps? when I do get a error message it says (data error on hard disk)? is it just impossible to use Mac drives in a PC? thanks for your info. Robby
Name: Dennis Ratliff Date: December 21, 2001 at 04:14:52 Pacific
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Hi, You say you ran fdisk, did you run an actual windows format? I recently had an old mac given to me to experiment with and I plan to try and put win 3.1 on it. Maybe we can learn together! Let me know if you come up with anything, I'll do the same. Thanks.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bud Date: December 21, 2001 at 16:54:31 Pacific
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If it failed scandisk then you may have bad sectors. I never have problem using Mac drives on my PC or PC drive in my Mac (Mac taht uses IDE drive that is). Try partition magic?
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Response Number 3
Name: Robby Date: December 21, 2001 at 19:45:06 Pacific
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Thanks for the info I think I'm going to try a debuging suggestion I got. I'll post if it works.
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Response Number 4
Name: Flaystus Date: December 21, 2001 at 22:48:28 Pacific
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You fdisk /mbr 'ed ? Just run the entire FDISK program,not just fdisk/mbr.
After that format the drive and go. I am using the drive from my mac in my pc cause i upgraded the Macs hard drive to better hold digital video (geeze that stuff is huge)
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Response Number 5
Name: Robert Liebsch Date: January 3, 2002 at 09:56:50 Pacific
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Windows wont run on a Mac Processor. Not without extra software, even then it only emulates the intel architecture.
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