Need Help install on HP DV2610 US HD not recognized

[lingo124]

Hello. I have an HP DV2610 US. I can not get my hard drive recognized by the installer. I have a 20gb chunk partitioned out as FAT 32, which is where I want to install the Mac. However, the disk utility only shows my dvd as a volume for installing. My FAT 32 partition and my whole hard drive even wont show up.

 

STATS:

• CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 (1.9GHz dual core, 65nm process, 31W TDP)
  
• RAM: 4GB DDR2-667 Gskills (2x2GB)
  
• Hard Disk: 160GB 5400rpm Hitachi Travelstar
  
• Optical Drive: DVD-RAM w/ Lightscribe
  
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7150M Integrated Graphics
  
• Wireless: Broadcom 802.11b/g and HP Bluetooth
  
• Battery: 6-cell Li-ion
  
• Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
  
• Accessories: Built-in webcam and media reader, modem, ethernet, etc.
  

I've tried Kalyway, iPC, iDeneb, and Leo4all. None of them recognize my hard drives.

Kalyway I used 10.5.2, iDeneb v1.4, Leo4all 10.5.2, and iPC 10.5.6. All were AMD compatible and they all booted up to the boot screen and I could proceed with installation until the step where I have to select a partition, which was pretty much the 2nd step only haha.

 

Any help would be cool. Thanks.

[lingo124]

any help anybody?

[mikewill57]

I have the dv2416 w/working 10.5.4 on it using Leo4All. Not 100% on what my HDD is though, but this is the steps I took to partition it. FYI, this will erase your HDD so BACK UP!! Most of the guides I've read that seemed successful look to start with a blank HDD and then either go Vista/7 or Leo for the first install. Good luck..

 

1. backup your stuff since you are going to reformat

 

2. (launch windows 7

 

3. press Shift+fn+f10

 

4. this will launch command prompt

 

5. type in the following

 

diskpart (windows partition manager)

select disk 0 (this selects your main hard disk)

clean (this will format it)

convert GPT (this converts it to GPT [mac partition table])

create partition EFI size=200 (creates efi partition)

create partition primary size=xx (this is your mac partition, replace xx with the size you

want it to be in megabytes)

create partition primary size=xx (this is your windows partition, replace xx with size)

select partition 3 (this selects your windows partition)

format fs=ntfs quick (this formats it)

assign letter c (tricks windows into installing here)

 

 

 

6. now turn off your computer and boot into mac os x installer