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‘You Cannot Install Mac OS X on This Volume’ – Mac Error

Tuesday Jun 15, 2010

Intel and Power PC Macs use different native schemes. Where Intel-based Mac systems are compatible with Apple_partition_scheme, Power PC-based Mac can only be used with GUID_partition_scheme. These incompatibility issues can create data loss situations. Hence to recover the lost data, you need to use Mac Data Recovery utilities. When a user tries to install Mac OS X on a hard disk that is connected to an Intel-based Mac system, an error message may be encountered as:”You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume.

Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume”The reason behind the error message is Mac OS X installer. User even fails to select the disk in such cases. It happens because of non-native hard disk partitioning scheme with respect to system processor. Though operating system gets installed on a volume, but the issue is hard disk partitioning scheme. Thus to solve the issue, we need to repartition the hard disk using GUID_partition_scheme.

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