dydx Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hi I tried to install 10.4.4 and 10.4.3 on the following system: AMD Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard 1GB DDR 400 RAM I successfully entered the installation and the disk utility but it cant find my SATA II hard drive.....i wonder if i should use a USB external hard drive(if so, how would that work?), or try another version? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10762-cannot-find-hard-drives-during-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 SATA on most AMD chipsets is not supported, AFAIK. If your system is capable of booting from a USB drive, there should be some option for that in the BIOS. So long as OS X sees your drive during setup, it should allow you to partition it and use it to install. After that, simply set your BIOS to boot from that drive to boot OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10762-cannot-find-hard-drives-during-installation/#findComment-67540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinityplusone Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I ran into that problem last night when I installed 10.4.3 but my hard drives are connected via PATA. For some reason, the drive didn't get mounted. I searched on here and found that if you go into the Disk Utility and try to Erase the partition, it then magically mounts it for you and you can continue with the install. It's something to try anyway. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10762-cannot-find-hard-drives-during-installation/#findComment-67630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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