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I had OSX running on my 32GB SSD mini 9 for a few months before I got the "hibernate image is too old" error

so...

I'm trying to reinstall the OS from a retail 10.6 disk restored to USB.
Boots from USB ok, in disk utility the volume is greyed out and unmounted. Verify and repair both say everything is okay, but when I try to partition the disk OR erase it I get:

"POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed.
Cannot allocate memory"

I've tried zeroing out, different partition tables, different formats; all give the same error.

Can't figure this one out. The only thing I've come across online suggests that I may need to mount the SSD on a PC and fiddle with some settings there. I'm not sure I can even do that from my macbook though.

[ianS]

I've seen the same problem - disk working fine, tried to do an install and got that error.

As a fall back I tried installing both Windows and Linux from the official Dell disks. Both systems failed to partition the disk, so it's not a MacOS specific problem - or at least it's not a problem with the MacOS installer.

Something is stopping the low system partitioning the disk You could try tweaking the BIOS secturity settings.

In my case it wasn't my machine, and the guy who owned it was about to replace the SSD with something larger, so I don't know what happened. Once he replaced the SSD MacOS installed fine in the new one.

Ian

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This forum is my only hope. Does anyone have a clue what is happening here? HELP!

[bosstone]

I had this same problem. I solved it by replacing the SSD. Might be another way but I could not figure it out. I think my drive was damaged somehow?