VERTiG0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Specs: Athlon64 3200+ Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo (VIA KT800 chipset) Samsung 1GB PC3200DDR RAM Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB 120GB Seagate HD on onboard VIA SATA controller I've got an 8GB partition on the drive that I plan to install on, so I've got to convert that to HFS+, right? I go to the Disk Utility before the install, and it only shows the DVD in there and my Pioneer DVD drive. No harddrive. Any ideas? I can't find any answers for this elsewhere on the board. Thanks guys and girls! {edit} It seems that I missed the "create partition primary id=af" in diskpart. After I made the partition in Partition Magic 8.01, I went to do that and it told me that the partition could not be created. After further investigation here deep into the archives, it seems that this step is wholly necessary so that the OS X installer will see my HD. How do I go about setting that id=af to the 8GB partition that I've got? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidream Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 How many primary partitions are on your drive? You can only have three max. I haven't run into that situation, so I don't know what error diskpart would give you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERTiG0 Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 2. My XP partition, and this 8GB partition for OSX. That's it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidream Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hmm. I know spfdisk can set partition types, it needs to be put on a bootable floppy or USB drive though. Here's a link: http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/Spf2K3rE.exe You could also do it from a linux boot disk with fdisk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suser Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 You are using a SATA drive, is that supported in Mac OS X ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERTiG0 Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Apparently so, but it seems that my SATA controller (VIA VT8237) has no driver support. I have solved the problem by stealing a regular ATA drive from an old computer of mine. Thanks though! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Supposedly SATA is supported on VIA chipsets if you have the AppleVIAATA.kext. Unlike nForce chipsets which don't work at all. It's in the Wiki, but doesn't show you how to get the driver (DMCA I guess). Try searching the forum for it, if you want to make it work. Personally I don't have a VIA chipset so I never dealt with it. But I know I have seen discussions about it on here... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10328-osx-install-disk-utility-need-to-convert-partition/#findComment-64585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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