VeganHipster Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I have gotten into the installer but I can not format my hard drive through disk utitlties. I saw that you had to enable AHCI in bios, and found out that option isn't in the Bios for my system. I then followed http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61869-ahci-enable-windows-7-vista.html to enable AHCI, and everything seemed to work but my hard drive still doesn't show up. Before that I also tried reinstalling Windows 7 and downgrading/upgrading my bios. I found that IOTAfamily.kext file which supposedly fixed the problem of it not getting picked up by Disk Utilities. I installed using Kext Wizard, but to be honest I am not sure if I did that right. I chose the System/Library/Extensions option when installing the kext. My original problem was that I would get the Apple Logo and then a white screen and beach ball forever. I have now been booting into the installer with the -x chameleon command. Could that be causing the problem? This is causing a lot of headache and I really would like some help. Thank you! Here are my specs, just in case: Intel Core 2 Duo running at 1.8ghz 9600gt 2gb ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeganHipster Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 I am now able to get into the installer after following this post.http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28138-dell-xps-410-resource-extravaganza/page-67?do=findComment&comment=1803835 However, my Hard Drive still isn't showing up in Disk Utilities. I will try setting it to Auto-Detect like the guy mentioned in the post above and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 you need the AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOATAFamily.kext you boot with -f -x -v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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