riffraff Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 i am attempting an install on a dv6000t hp pavilion (laptop). i know that this model has a sata drive... and, i am able to disable it in the bios. the issue is that on installation no drive/partition is presented for installation. in the drive utility the drive is shown, but when i attempt to reformat the fat32 partition that i have set up i am unable to create a osx journaled partition. i believe that i am using the most current jas install dvd. are the issues with sata solved with the semthex kernels? i don't know. any guidance would be great. if there is a thread that addresses this issue drop me the link. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34307-install-issue-sata-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 If Disk Utility can see your SATA drive, then you don't have a SATA issue. In Disk Utility, on the left side, be sure that you click on the icon of the partition you want to format. Then click the Erase tab on the top right. Be sure that MacOS Extended Journaled is selected. And be sure to give your partition a name. Then click the Erase button on bottom right. If this fails, then return to Windows and use some Windows/Linux utility to format the partition as FAT32 again. Use something different from what you previously used. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34307-install-issue-sata-drive/#findComment-243104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted November 27, 2006 Author Share Posted November 27, 2006 it is not showing the HD with sata enabled or disabled in bios. the only way i can see the drive is in the disk utility. and, i have attempted to reformat the fat32, but it gives me an error when i try to reformat to OS extended. i will keep playing around, but some help or a lead would be awesome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34307-install-issue-sata-drive/#findComment-243271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 bumped up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34307-install-issue-sata-drive/#findComment-244323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silthrim Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 It works fine on my SATA drive.... its a WD Caviar 250GB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34307-install-issue-sata-drive/#findComment-244386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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