vvkk Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I am trying to install the 10.4.6 patched dvd but when I go to disk utility there are no hard drives found, only the dvd drive that it is installing from. Please can you help me get my hard drive detected. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horizon135 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 What your spec? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvkk Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 Ive got windows on a SATA drive and im trying to install OS X on another ATA drive which I have formatted to FAT32 Logical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 go up top to the menu and under utilities there should be disk utilities....look for it in there... also what is the specs of your pc? model, motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvkk Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 I went to disk utilities and it wasn't there. My Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro -G My CPU is an Intel Pentium D 940 3.2ghz thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 is it sata? or ata hard drive? if its ata it must be the primary and the dvd drive the secondary...and you can't use cable select. Also if yours has an ITE ide controller I don't believe those work... As for SATA if you have 2 different SATA controllers try plugging the hard drive into a port on the other controller.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Ive got windows on a SATA drive and im trying to install OS X on another ATA drive which I have formatted to FAT32 Logical. You say you formatted the drive as a Logical partition? Try formatting it as primary and see what happens. Use Google if you need to know how to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvkk Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 I am using an ATA drive. I planned to convert my Logical to Primary after OS X is installed. Does the Hard drive have to be on the same cable as the dvd drive? Because there is only 1 channel on this motherboard that works with CD/DVD drives and it doesnt work with hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvkk Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 Does anybody know how to fix this? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 is it sata? or ata hard drive? if its ata it must be the primary and the dvd drive the secondary...and you can't use cable select. Also if yours has an ITE ide controller I don't believe those work... and i don't belive you can install on a partiton that is logical your bound to get a waiting for root device error with that... only other option is vmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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