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by passionvision

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Hi,
I'm a mac user. I have an old dell that just keeps rebooting, from black screen to blue...

I don't care about any information that is on it. I don't have any of the original start up disc.

I just want to install a Hackintosh program so that I can turn it into a mac to cluster with my network to create a supercomputer.

I was hoping to just install the Hackintosh CD and go from there, but I can't get it to stop rebooting.

Is there a way to completely reformat the HD (XP)?

Thanx much.

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by older mycroft

Download, either burn to CD or copy to floppy, then boot from this disc.

It'll run 4 passes in each of 3 layers to completely obliterate any trace of any previous operating system.

Depending on the capacity of the hard drive, it could take 2+ hours

http://www.dban.org/download

by oh smeg

It sounds as if it has a Hardware issue so even wiping the HDD may not be possible. However if this just started after you attempted to install from the MAC Install Disc it is most likely a software problem.

To diagnose a Hardware issue get a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD from here to test the Hardware

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

If it's software related you may very well find that your Mac install Disc doesn't support the Hardware that is in the Dell. MAC OSX has a very limited Hardware Base as Apple [b]Do Not[/b] use a open system but a locked system so that they retain complete control over things. For this reason many PC's hardware Are Not supported by the MAC install Disc.

However as OSX is based on the OS BSD you can use Open BSD to load this PC and install whatever Mac Software you require. You can download a copy of Open BSD from here

http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

Boot & Nuke will wipe the existing Partitions on the HDD and Autonuke should be sufficient unless you want a complete destruction for ever on the HDD. By using Autonuke this will wipe the HDD and leave it blank and like a new HDD to partition up and use.

Col

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