srs5694 Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 As I said, you need to study your screen to see what it's loading just before it reboots. I know this will be difficult; you may have just a fraction of a second to study the screen. Maybe a video camera will help.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1399965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagles-89 Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 hi men, first of all a big thanks to everybody for your excellent job on this site....however me too...i have the same problem. With ideneb 10.5 the installation went on, (until) but utility disk didnt detect the hard disks. I cecked on my BIOS the famouse voices (IDE/ AHCI) but i find nothing about them . So now im downloading iAtkos v7, hoping it will be fine. I have an HP Pavillion dv 5 1080el. Any advice? Last question: the drivers that i'll install on iAtkos are the same that i saw for ideneb? thanks men Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 I'm sorry for posting in this thread but I am not able to create a new one because it says that I do not have permission. My problem is similar to this one where my hard drive is not detected/found in disk utility of the install DVD. I have tried iPC/Kalyway/iDeneb and all of them cannot find my hard drive. Some information about my laptop. Gateway CX2724 Intel GMA950 Intel ICH7M sata controller. I have a 100GB sata hard drive. I have searched around for the past 2 days and I have tried everything. Also my bios does not have any settings regarding ahci. What intrigues me the most is that I have found that someone with the same laptop as me has installed 10.5.2 kalyway without any mention of this issue. The link to that is in the osx86 page about HCL for 10.5.2 for this model of laptop. So if anyone can help it would be appreciatied. PS. If I am able to create a new topic later on I will, or if a mod can do that for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaswistry Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 @srs6594 Using my phone's camera and VLC, attached is a screenshot of the very last message I get before the PC reboots again. It's really not clear so I assume it says "DSDT.AML from 423870. This is the last message after it loads all those kernel stuff. Any ideas? As I said, you need to study your screen to see what it's loading just before it reboots. I know this will be difficult; you may have just a fraction of a second to study the screen. Maybe a video camera will help.... @bilal.7 and eagles-89 Sometimes, you dont have the AHCI setting and If its not there, you wont have to worry about it. What kind of bios are you two using? Phoenix? Sometimes, the settings are hidden in other settings and sometimes, they're even hidden in more vague settings. Just imagine my case, I should have been looking for AHCI but what I found was that the option was really in a setting that asked me for my operating system. I chose vista and it gave me a list of two SATA stuff. I played with it and what did you know, it worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 @bilal.7 and eagles-89 Sometimes, you dont have the AHCI setting and If its not there, you wont have to worry about it. What kind of bios are you two using? Phoenix? Sometimes, the settings are hidden in other settings and sometimes, they're even hidden in more vague settings. Just imagine my case, I should have been looking for AHCI but what I found was that the option was really in a setting that asked me for my operating system. I chose vista and it gave me a list of two SATA stuff. I played with it and what did you know, it worked. I do have a setting for operating system but not Vista, only XP,2000 and other. I've already tried XP and other so theres nothing there. I have already updated to the latest bios which I believe is Phoenix. Hopefully someone has more info on this because it seems like a very common problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaswistry Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 So we have the same BIOS then. How did you update? I was thinking of updating mine but I couldnt find out how so I just played with it and I got it right. Did you try selecting among the different settings? try changing between the selected operating systems and you might get something. How about 2000? Darn Phoenix BIOS won't let us do tweaks. grrr. I do have a setting for operating system but not Vista, only XP,2000 and other. I've already tried XP and other so theres nothing there. I have already updated to the latest bios which I believe is Phoenix. Hopefully someone has more info on this because it seems like a very common problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 So we have the same BIOS then. How did you update? I was thinking of updating mine but I couldnt find out how so I just played with it and I got it right. Did you try selecting among the different settings? try changing between the selected operating systems and you might get something. How about 2000? Darn Phoenix BIOS won't let us do tweaks. grrr. I was able to update using software from the Gateway site. You should check your manufacture page to see if there is a bios updating tool. I am going to keep tweaking the settings and hope something works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaswistry Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 I was able to update using software from the Gateway site. You should check your manufacture page to see if there is a bios updating tool. I am going to keep tweaking the settings and hope something works. I checked my manufaturer and I found nothing. So much for BIOS updates. LOL. I hope you could tweak your settings and find it. Did you check the HCL for compatibility? If it aint listed there, theres a lesser chance than less that it would work. Plus, if your BIOS does not really support tweaking, your stompped. Either way, you coulds search the net for someone who has the same unit as yours and maybe ask how they did it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony1995 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 For me, it worked to configure the BIOS to use ATA, not AHCI. If you used XP, you are most likely to have the AHCI problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaswistry Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 Hi! To whom are you replying this to? As much as I hate to admit it, not everyone has the AHCI or ATA setting in their BIOS. In fact, a BIOS like PHOENIX makes little if not no room at all for changes. For me, it worked to configure the BIOS to use ATA, not AHCI. If you used XP, you are most likely to have the AHCI problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 For me, it worked to configure the BIOS to use ATA, not AHCI. If you used XP, you are most likely to have the AHCI problem. I wish it were that simple, but my bios is severly locked down, with no option at all for that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Anyone with a Gateway CX2724 or with a notebook that doesn't have ahci option in their bios want to help me out? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1400781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilal.7 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 So I was able to use a workaround to get it it to detect my hard drive. Basically I took out my hard drive and placed it in a SATA USB enclosure and then I installed to that. When I put my hard drive back into to my laptop it booted up just fine and the ahci drivers from the install dvd worked perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1402455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaswistry Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 I was able to install mac to my laptop using iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5. The problem I had was at the last when the account creation went into a loop. Good thing though that it was easy for me to solve it through the help of online sources. Now my questions are the following: 1) How do I install my WIFI and ethernet? I downloaded REALTEK kext and a REALTEK driver from their website. While the realtek driver was installed and an "ethernet" was displayed under network, it now tells me that it is self-signed and I could not access the internet 2) How do I get sound, my card reader, bluetooth and webcam to work? as well as the sleep function? 3) How do I install Snow leo? Thanks alot guys! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209267-no-hard-disk-detected-in-disk-utility/page/2/#findComment-1403162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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