Seanster Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Hi, I have followed all the steps online about putting the install dvd on a usb stick and doing the install that way on the pc. Everything works fine the install starts but when you go to format the drive or even just chose which drive you want it to install on all I see is the usb stick. It doesn't show me the actual 160gb hard drive that is in the machine. Anyone know how to fix this.. i have been trying different things for about 2 days now and im just not getting anywhere. Thanks, Sean Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangten Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Setup your HDD using another Mac with the disk utility. And also remember that if you don't have the correct kext for your motherboard then perhaps its not possible for it to even see the drive in the first place. If you actually formatted your usb stick correctly on a Mac or a VM with OSX via bit torrent. Then installed SL onto it and installed your boot loader "Chameleon or PC-EFI" you should be good to go but would still need to have a number things to do depending on what "DSDT" you have for your motherboard. DSDT is most important. Please READ as much as you can its in this forum somewhere and so are all the tools you need like "mkext builder". Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1397926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 What chipset is used on your motherboard? Did you load the controller's kext files? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1400168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Is the drive SATA? It's very hard to get OSX to see an IDE drive. Before you get to the part in OSX where it asks where you want to install to, you need to click "Tools" and "Disk Utility" and partition the drive, before it'll show up. FAT based partitions won't be offered as viable install locations, and either will unformatted drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1400175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanster Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 I have a sata hard drive and there for I am unable to move it to my other mac because the other mac uses ide drives. The disk utilities doesn't see the internal hard drive or my usb drive that i tried to attach. FAT based partitions won't be offered as viable install locations, and either will unformatted drives. Would it work if I install say Windows 7 Ultimate and then did something to the drive then try to run the mac install again? Would that see it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1400850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanster Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 What chipset is used on your motherboard? Did you load the controller's kext files? I tried looking at the motherboard and I couldn't see anything that told me what it was. I followed a step by step that I found on the net to boot the installer from a usb stick. It reads the stick and boots up but when I go to Disk Utilities it doesn't even show my external usb hd or my sata internal hard drive. all it shows is the 8GB USB drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1401877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanster Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hey everyone GREAT news. took a look at some other posts on here and came across "myHack" I followed that and used it and it saw my hard drives no problem and I had the whole thing up and running and not needing the usb to boot off in less than 30 min! I am so very very excited now I just have to get the internet to work... I am trying to bridge the connection between my Win 7 Ultimate machine and now my SL machine that's right next to it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209403-installing-snow-leopard-on-an-intel-core-2/#findComment-1401907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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