simpfan742 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Hello. I would greatly appreciate any help I can receive on this topic. I just receieved a new Dell Precision 690 (2x2.0 ghz Xeon 4mb caches, 1333mhz FSB), 2gb DDR2 667 mhz, Nvidia Quadro 550, 1 Western Digital 80gb 10,000 rpm SATA, 2 Samsung 160gb 3.0gb/s in RAID 0, DVD, DVD-RW, etc.) My system will boot the DVD (OS 10.4.6 Hotitso), but when I go to the disk utilities, there is no hard drive to format or install to. I have set aside 16gb in unpartitioned space on the 80gb Western Digital and have set the ID as AF. Could the SATA controller be causing this? I'm not exactly sure how the drives are connected, but I know I have a Dell SAS 5/iR Integrated Controller as well as an Intel 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller. Is there something I can do in the bios to enable the installer to see my disk drives? Thanks again for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousT Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I am also having this problem, nothing shows up in disk utility. =( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-160702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonp22 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I am also having this problem, nothing shows up in disk utility. =( hav u partitioned it right to work with the os Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-160709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacOX86NewBie Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I think it has to do with SATA driver. May 10.4.6 Hotitso does not recognize the Intel 631xESB/632xESB SATA of your laptop Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-160748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I think it has to do with SATA driver. May 10.4.6 Hotitso does not recognize the Intel 631xESB/632xESB SATA of your laptop Yep, its the sata, i have the same problem and its because of hte sata... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-160754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpfan742 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Yep, its the sata, i have the same problem and its because of hte sata... Is there any way I can get past it? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-160775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuantumByte Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 You have to repartition the drive to "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" format in order for the installer to recognise it. Before selecting the drive to install to (there won't be one), click "Utilities" on the menu bar, and select Disk Utility. Repartition from there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-161169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousT Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 And therein lies the problem with me. It doesn't show up in disk utility. Nothing does, except for the DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-161177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuantumByte Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Good luck with that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-161210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
solaar Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I had a similar problem once. After some fiddling in the BIOS where the SATA was defined as RAID I had to physically re-plug the SATA cable from SATA0 to SATA1 to make it defined as an IDE-type HD. From then on everything went ok. Worst case, you might want to get some cheap PATA where you install OSX first, get the SATA to work within OSX and then make a disk image to the SATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-162408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousT Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 I have a USB drive that OS X detects and can install to, the only question that I have about that though is once I have OS X installed to a partition on the USB drive, how do I copy that partition and/or get it installed on the SATA drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24194-no-hard-drive-to-install-to/#findComment-163663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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