anonymousthing Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Hi everyone My snow leopard is installed on an external hdd, and everything almost works perfectly. However, I would like to now do a dual boot, as the external gets extremely hot after a while. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard can't detect my internal drive, even in disk utility (which just shows my external). It can't even detect a dvd in the dvd drive. My hard drive is NOT corrupt either, Windows 7 is on it, and works perfectly. Which is why I can tell you its a "ST3500418AS ATA Device" according to device manager. Also, on a side note, networking works, but to "activate" it, i have to go to System Preferences > Network, which then displays something like "A new network has been found (Ethernet 2)". Is there any way my internet can work without loading system prefs every time? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246585-snow-leopard-cant-detect-internal-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliveli123 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 It looks like your SATA (or IDE) controller is not recognized by the installer you're using. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246585-snow-leopard-cant-detect-internal-hdd/#findComment-1634885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymousthing Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 D'oh! It seems that the installer didn't have Drivers>SATA/IDE Controller ticked. Reinstalling now... If it doesn't work, i'll start raging at it. Maybe it'll start working then... Thanks anyway! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246585-snow-leopard-cant-detect-internal-hdd/#findComment-1635127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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