Installation Problem/Question

[digitalx]

ok so i got Mac OSX 10.4.4 x86 it came with AMD patches on it i believe. i boot it all fine i can access the setup and that but when i go next to the select where to install on it no hard drive shows up. When i go to the utility thing up the top and the system disk manager or whatever it is it loads up and it still dosent show my hard drive it just shows the DVD drive and the DVD disk. I am trying to dual boot it with windows xp i have gone through the wiki and support files for this but cant find any reason why this is happening weather its because its not formatted or anything. my computer is AMD Athlon64 3200+, 1GB DDR400, ATi X850 XT and 80GB Hitachi SATA drive. my C: drive where my windows xp installation is i want to keep im trying to install mac osx on d: which atm isnt cleaned or formatted and currently has Windows Vista on it i was thinking i could format it in the setup for mac osx which i cant because wont show up. so what do i do to fix this or is it what i thought i just have to format it and activate it with Hiren's boot cd thing like in the 10.4.4 install guide in the wiki?. thanks for any help

 

oh yeah and d: at the moment is formatted in NTFS

[giraid]

I think your issue is the SATA drive, I think OSX doesnt support installation on sata drive for certain chipset if not all. It didnt find two of mine on Nforce 3 neither. My suggestion if do what I did and plug in an IDE drive or if you have USB HDD, you can install on that too

[digitalx]

oh ok ill try that then. Yeah i have nForce 4. Thanks for advice