Kasperloeye Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I'm stuck.. I've tried installing iATKOS 4i on my Packard Bell.. But it can't find my drives.. what am I doing wrong?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasperloeye Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 None...? I'm amazed.. and alittle disappointed tbh.. Meh.. then I'll.. go for it myself.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-960498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwalker12 Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 do u no your hardware specs, or have you tried kalyway 10.5.2 go to the website for your motherboard download the manual send me your bios data and your motherboard specs ill try to help you just pm me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 i have the same problem on my fujitsu siemens laptop here are my specs ; fujitsu siemens v5535 i have tryed all versions and none of them cant find my harddisc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~rTP Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 By "drives" do you mean your hard drive(s) or your optical drive(s) or both? Assuming that you mean your hard drive(s), is the installer not recognizing them or not in Disk Utility either. Most likely, what you need to do is as soon as you get to the point in the installer where there are menus at the top, go to Utilities > Disk Utility and click on a drive or disk, then go to the "Erase" tab, select "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and choose a name. Then click "Erase" and when it finishes, close the window. Then, the installer should recognize your drive. Hope this helps, ~rTP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 when i open up Disk Utility it doesn't show any device ( harddisc ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~rTP Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Here's what you should do first: 1) Download Cute Partition Manager; it's a great program that I use all the time 2) Repartition your HD (As FAT16) to make sure that Disk Utility didn't just go funky 3) Find and post the specs of your HD I think in the end the easiest way out will be to try Kalyway 10.5.2; it seems to have the most driver support from my personal experience, but I'm also pretty new at this so I don't know for sure. Cheers, ~rTP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 first thy for the quick reply's ~rTP i already have a 20 gig FAT16 partition ( i use it for linux ) Disk Utility just sas Select a disc , volume, or image and on the left site there's no HD to select, nothing actually ( its just blanc ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~rTP Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Well, that's your problem. Linux does crazy things to your partition table, which is probably why it's not working. I don't know much in this area, but this post might help: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry756723 ~rTP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 but why can't it see my vista partition then ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~rTP Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I think it has to do with the whole partition table, not just a specific partition. But like I said, I'm not exactly a genius in that area. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 well i'm gonna try it your way and repartitioning my HD i'm gonna creat a new partion and try it again i'll keep you posted and thx for the reply's Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
good night Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 well i formated my entire hd and still no harddisk find in the Disc Utility aplication i used a linux live distro to partitionize Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135540-need-help/#findComment-961312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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