antukat 0 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Thinkpad T530 i7-3720QM SSD ---240GB HDD---1TB Toshiba (Not Read- Show me Uninitialization ) I'm using macOS Big Sur beta 11. Bootloader (Open Core)and everything works fine, as soon as it reaches Disk Utility, my HDD isn't showing up at all. It shows up in BIOS and diskpart (in Windows) so it's not the physical drive. But it worked pretty well when I went macOS Catalina I realized my hard disk is given in Windows format but I can do read with macOS big sur . Some say initializing the disk with diskpart does the trick, some say installing SATA-100-series-unsupported.kext will too. My question is, how do I go about initializing the disk (I know that Mac can only read HFS+ so basically this means converting an NTFS disk to HFS+ within diskpart)? And what about installing kexts? I'm a total n00b when it comes to Hackintosh since this is my second attempt at doing this. Any reply is greatly appreciated! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aakh1361 0 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 me too same problem Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha999 45 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Hello If you cannot format from MAC at all due to the contents of the current HDD, you may try the following. Make a Linux live USB.UBUNTU may be good. Start gparted and display its HDD. Device → Create Partition Table Select gtp in and apply. After doing this, I think you can try erasing all partitions if you have them. Thank you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HenryV 43 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Have only recently seen your post so it may be too late. If the disk was recently functioning normally and has not been destructively overwritten you may want to try partition recovery software. At the very least you may be able to recover some files. If you have backed up the partition table you can restore from the backup table to see if previous data is recoverable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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