Craig Pettigrove Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I was messing around trying to get Trim working on my Kingston V300 SSD and deleted the IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext. Now my system won't boot or my internal hard drives won't show in disk utility for me to re install Mavericks. I do have an external hard drive that has all of the mavericks kexts. Is there a way to transfer this kext back to my Main hard drive. If so, how do I do this. Is there another way to correct this problem. It also maybe a Bios setting that is not right. I have AHCI set and have chosen to load Optimized settings. I am really desperate here and have tried everything and am begging for help. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 well. you can use app MacDrive or HFExplorer or Transmac in windows and copy the kext to your HD, easy!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Pettigrove Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Thanks so much for your reply as I am very happy there is hope to fix this issue! At the moment my Internal HD inside my Hackintosh is partitioned to Fat32. I can easily reparation that to Mac OS Extended Journal if needed or do I wait until I place kext on the drive using one of the programs you suggested. My drive has nothing on it, therefore how is putting a kext on a blank drive going to help. How do I know what kext to use. I have two internal drives on my hackintosh and neither are showing up. I would be much appreciative if you could give me some guidance here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Pettigrove Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 I am desperate and think I screwed up my chance to have a hackintosh on this build. I am shocked that one mistake deleting a kext has now caused my Hard drives to be missing in Disk Utility. I managed to install Mavericks on an external hard drive, but don't see how this helps me. There is nothing wrong with the hard drives as I have tested them in another machine. The hard drives are showing up in the Bios and if I go to install Windows they show up. The problem is they are not recognized in anything Mac OS X. I am just praying there has to be a way to fix this. Thanks in advance for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.H Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I hope you haven't done anything to that drive so far. Just unplug your drive and plug it into a working PC with either OSX or Windows installed. OS X is better beyond doubt. Then copy the kext you deleted to the S/L/E folder. Thats it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linux4life Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Wait....tell me the partitions u have. PM i'll to help.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Pettigrove Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 FAQ Team and Moderator, Thanks for getting back to me regarding this post. Despite your good advice I am not holding out much hope. My frustration level is threw the roof. This is what I know and are concluding. My 240GB Kingston SSD should be working fine as it is only 1 week old. I put this drive in another Hackintosh I have and installed Mountain Lion and all files transferred okay and installed. When I took the drive out and put it back into the Non working Hackintosh there was no sign of that drive in disk Utility. However, there was the kingston drive showing up in Chimera boot screen. What about if there is something wrong with my motherboard or Sata ports on my motherboard. I am now trying to install Windows just to check that shows all the internal drives and can run correctly. If not then we have an issue with the drive or motherboard. I am getting an error 0x80300024 in windows installer that I cannot install to this drive. I think it is MBR and NTFS file system, but who knows at this stage. Let me know what you think and the next step. Is there hope? Just noticed your question: Wait....tell me the partitions u have. PM i'll to help.. I have two hard drives installed and neither is showing up in disk Utility; 320 GB Storage drive and a 240GB Kingston SSD. In Windows installer: Disk 0 Partition 1 200MB Disk 0 Partition 2 297GB (has to be the storage drive) Disk 1 partition 1 EFI 200 MB (what is this and why is it created) Disk 1 unallocated space 0MB Disk 1 partition 2 223GB (Must be the Kingston SSD) Disk 2 Unallocated space 1MB Disk 2 Partition 1 (Must be Mavericks installer) How ridiculous is it that I cannot partition a hard drive whilst in the windows installer to work correctly and install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linux4life Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Who asked you to install Windows?... Use a Linux live disk and check if your drives show yup... If they do..then u basically have a problem with the OS not detecting you drive... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 However, there was the kingston drive showing up in Chimera boot screen. (...) How ridiculous is it that I cannot partition a hard drive whilst in the windows installer to work correctly and install. Two things: Retail OS X does not install to MBR formatted drives. You need to modify the installer to allow for that, there's a guide in the Genius Bar. We don't support TonyMac bootloaders, tools or installations done with TonyMac tools here. Please read the rules before posting. Topic locked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/297920-i-cannot-see-both-of-my-internal-hard-drives-when-installing-mavericks/#findComment-2018382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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