iAtkos didn't recognize sata hdd

[simcolor]

I've just bought a new sony vaio nr laptop. Wanted to use the iatKos v1.0r2+Equate patch to install, but it didn't recognize my hard drive. When I went to disk utility, there is nothing there.

 

Tried to put the empty fat32 partition in the primary partition, don't work. Formatted the whole disk, won't work.

 

Then I realized, iAtKos doesn't see my hard drive at all, not to mention the partition on it. It seems to be a SATA drive problem, people have been reporting change the SATA drive to compatible mode in BIOS, i.e. change it to AHCI etc, but my bios is phoenix bios which won't let me do it.

 

So I am pretty much stuck in here. Any help is appreciated!

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spec:

 

Core 2 Duo T5270 1.4GHz

160G SATA HDD

1G RAM

Video GMA X3100

[smorf]

try setting your SATA controller to AHCI mode in bios, that might solve your problem.

[simcolor]

try setting your SATA controller to AHCI mode in bios, that might solve your problem.

 

Thanks smorf!

 

Unfortunately, my vaio laptop has a crappy "Pheonix Bios" which doesn't allow me to do this. Thought about get a bios editor for it, then feel it is too risky. And get a Kalyway 10.5.2 instead, which boots and installs well.

[Ashand]

try setting your SATA controller to AHCI mode in bios, that might solve your problem.

 

smorf, I haveAbit IP35 Pro mobo and I did changed the SATA controller to ACHI but I am getting failures all the time, I have installed kalway 10.5.2 (EFI v.8) I used BFCD to add entry for OSX (which was working on IDE drive before!) can you tell me what to do next??

[PowerPC12395]

Thanks smorf!

 

Unfortunately, my vaio laptop has a crappy "Pheonix Bios" which doesn't allow me to do this. Thought about get a bios editor for it, then feel it is too risky. And get a Kalyway 10.5.2 instead, which boots and installs well.

 

Kalyway doesn't even show the driver for me in Disk Util...