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- May 28, 2013
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- Motherboard
- HP Probook 4430s
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-2410M
- Graphics
- Intel HD3000
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I have an HP Probook 4430s with a Windows 7 / Mac OS X 10.9 dual boot with the Chameleon bootloader. My problems started when I booted into OS X and it was just running extremely slow and nothing would load quick. So I opened Disk Utility to check the disk, which told me it needed to be repaired but with my installation CD. So I plugged in my installation flash drive and tried repairing, and it said it needs to be formatted and reinstalled. Windows 7 runs just fine. I installed MacDrive (Trial) on Windows and tried to repair, but it failed also. It sometimes will mount, but when it does, it says: Disk is not accessible; The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.
So I backed up all my stuff when I got it to mount, and booted into my installation flash drive to format and reinstall... And it can't be formatted. I can't remember what exactly it said, but I know I couldn't format it.
I posted here to see what you think I should do. I'm not sure if that partition or something is just shot and I need a new hard drive. Or I was going to try to download Ubuntu and see if that can format it. I just figured I'd ask here for other ideas or to know what could have possibly happened..
So I backed up all my stuff when I got it to mount, and booted into my installation flash drive to format and reinstall... And it can't be formatted. I can't remember what exactly it said, but I know I couldn't format it.
I posted here to see what you think I should do. I'm not sure if that partition or something is just shot and I need a new hard drive. Or I was going to try to download Ubuntu and see if that can format it. I just figured I'd ask here for other ideas or to know what could have possibly happened..