ShadowLegion88 Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Im Trying to Dual Boot Vista and Mac. I already have iATKOS on a Disk and everything but when i put it in and go to the Disk Utility None of my drives show up, its just blank. I Tried setting the Mac Drive i made to active in vista using command prompt and that didnt work and im lost right now And i Cant Find anything wrong in my BIOS. Can anyone Help Me OUT with This? Here Are My Specs: Processor: Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU E2140 @1.60GHz, 1806 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 6/14/2007 Ram: Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB Sound: ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio - ATI AA01 DVD Drive: ASUS DRW-1814BL ATA Device Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series Oh and This Is A Computer That I Built Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 None of that is useful. Is your hard drive SATA or PATA and what is the make and model of the motherboard Southbridge? Also name any external drive controller chips. When drives don't appear in Disk Utility it's because the controller they are attached to isn't supported, or because of wrong settings in the BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLegion88 Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 My Hard Drive is PATA My Mother Board is a Foxconn 946GZ7MA My motherboard Southbridge is Intel ICH7 You need anything else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I don't know if setting ICH7 to AHCI mode will make any difference since you're using a PATA drive. ICH7 is natively supported in OSX, but I don't know if that actually means only the SATA part. Try changing the controller mode in the BIOS, there are various settings, enhanced, compatible, etc etc. Try with each setting and see if the drive appears. It's strange because your DVD drive is also PATA and attached to the same controller, right? If you can, try putting them on separate IDE channels using two cables (must be 80 conductor cables!) and both jumpered as master device. If it turns out your motherboard only has one IDE channel, make the hard drive master device on it, unplug the DVD drive and try a SATA- or external USB DVD drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLegion88 Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 alright i got it to show up but when i install it and boot it up im having issues. it plays the video but freezes. Im going to re install tomorrow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Could you post what you did to make it work, it may be helpful to the very small percentage of users that actually use the forum search. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLegion88 Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 I had to PATA Cables in my Computer. 1 on the motherboard and the other on a PCI Adapter i had to move the drive close enough to the DVD Drive so i could have both the Drive and the HDD on the Same Cable For some reason it wouldnt work on the PCI Adapter but when 1 cable is hooked up to the drive and the other cable is with the HDD it will detect everything in windows it just wouldnt work for mac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172067-hdd-wont-show/#findComment-1184977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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