laatmaarzien Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hi! I am facing a weird problem. I can't seem to initialize certain partitions of my Disks. I have 2 P-ATA drives and 1 S-ATA drive. OS X recognizes only two partitions, the Mac OS X partition and the first partition of Disk 2 (mentioned below). There just doesn't seem to be a pattern. I thought it might be just that it reads Primary partitions, but that is not the case. The S-ATA doesn't show up as a recognizable partition, though I can read these partitions in Windows without a problem. I used Jas 10.4.8 DVD (SSE2) and installed OS X on my Asus P4P800 - E Deluxe, and everything worked out of the box. Except the Marvell Yukon Ethernet (which wasn't even recognized as Built in Ethernet), and certain NTFS drive partitions. Here is my setup Disk 1 P-ATA - OSX (25 GB) Primary/ Partition 2 (200 GB) Logical NTFS - not recognized Disk 2 P-ATA - Documents (100 GB) NTFS Logical - Recognized / Partition 2 (300 GB) Logical NTFS - not Recognized Disk 3 S-ATA - Films (300 GB) NTFS - Logical - Not Recognized / Partition 2 (200 GB) Logical NTFS - Not recognized They show up in Disk Utility as xcdiskxx where x is a number. Random and not initialized. They can't be mounted or recognized... any help would be highly appreciated Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38872-certain-partitions-dont-show-up-at-all-not-initialized-and-not-mounted/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmegahertz Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 i think there are workarounds for S-ATA disks... however, i didnt even manage to install OSX at all, disk util doesnt find any drive, nor the installation program itself, dunno how to solve... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38872-certain-partitions-dont-show-up-at-all-not-initialized-and-not-mounted/#findComment-277252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laatmaarzien Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hiya, thanks for your reply m8, I wish I could help, but I am like a babe lost in the woods. I dug a little further and found that booting in the verbose mode, the dreaded error was being thrown out diskarbitrationd[33] cannot mount yadda yadda, error code 0x00000047, hallelujah! For all of my partitions, I thought it was perhaps coz I had them as NTFS, I painstakingly converted them to FAT32 using Disk Director Suite and lovely, nothing was recognized, all unable to mount. Only after I chose a specific partition and clicked Erase and installed the Mac OS Journaled File System, did that partition work. Argh am left to tearing my hair Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38872-certain-partitions-dont-show-up-at-all-not-initialized-and-not-mounted/#findComment-277449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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