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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
The Intel OS X installer won't install onto a drive formatted as APM (Apple Partition Map)--that will definitely produce the general error message you're getting. But if you're trying to install an Intel OS X version, using a MacBook, onto a drive formatted as GUID/GPT (doublecheck that it is), and it's giving you the general message that it can't install onto the drive, then there's some other problem the Installer isn't happy about. Reset the MacBook's SMU and try again. I've also seen this happen on drives with bad blocks, so check the hard drive for this, using something like Data Rescue II, Drive Genius, TechTool Pro, etc.
Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
I should have pointed out above, that the hard drive inside all Intel Macs should probably always be formatted as GUID (or nearly always, depending on your needs), even though an Intel Mac can boot from an APM-formatted drive, since there are some Apple installers and updaters that won't work properly if you run them on an Intel Mac, with an APM-formatted drive as the target. You also don't want to confuse anyone who may work with the Mac in the future, who might not know if the Mac's drive is formatted as APM. Also, I've recently read at least one report that a GUID-formatted drive performs read/writes faster than an APM-formatted drive, when run on an Intel Mac, though I'd like to see some confirmation of this. |
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