TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 (edited) Ok guys im running Windows Vista RTM and have 3 partition of my hard drive when i installed Vista, 1 50GB (Vista) 1 50GB (Files) and one 87GB (files) and i decided to install mac on the 50 i backuped all my files and formated the 50GB partition burn the prepatched Mac OS X DVD do the DiskPart and then when i rebooted to install during the installation i went to choose my place to install mac and there where nothing all blank. When to option and Disk Utilities and i saw my disk drive and MP3 but none of my Hard Disk, tried to create new image but i could not, Why Please HELP ME REALLY WANT TO INSTALL MAC OS X !!!!!!!!!! its a Compaq PC SR1750NX with a nVIDIA BFG Tech 256 MB DDR2 GS OC Please help me ATA Drive Edited January 23, 2007 by TechnoFou Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 well, if your hard drives are SATA drives and you have a nForce chipset it tends to cause problems. if you have those then its best to not install on any hard drives that have data you care about on cuase its been known to corrupt the drives. How many times did you try it? sometimes flukes happen where stuff just wont show up. umm. thats about all i can think of. checking wiki and the forums more can always yield results. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 i tryed 4 times and its ATA (ST3200826AS ATA Device) thats what Everest tolls me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 huh. you can obviously still boot into vista again, so the drives ok. umm. try to reformat the hard drive in vista to fat32 and see if that helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 i dont have the choise in my computer, i just have NTFS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 please someone ?..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay_us Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I don't understand. When you boot up the osx dvd, what does disk utility show? Can you see your hard drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 no i boot there is the installation and then they ask on which hard drive i want to install on it, there is none of my either in the disk utility Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 hmm idk whats wrong. i feel kinda repetative syaing this but did you chekc all your specs with the Wiki Hardware Compatibility Lists? also, sry i went away, i had to watch 24. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 no every thing is fine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zizou Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 You're saying you have a perfectly running Windows system, but your Disk Utility on your DVD doesn't recognize the Hdd? Does it recognize an iPod for instance? (plug one in).. Have you tried multiple dvds? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-282775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFou Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 yah boght an ipod and recognise it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-293223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvornik Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) Three suggestions. Change the mode of your SATA disk in BIOS (could be IDE, AHCI, RAID...). If Compaq BIOS lets you do it of course - I'm not familiar with Compaq. If you have more than two disk controllers try another controller... (Like, some modern boards have separate controllers for SATA and IDE, again, you'd see something in BIOS). Try another/newer OSX DVD. In the summer none of them detected my disks. Now all of them do. There are several 10.4.8 packages out there - see if one works. Edited February 4, 2007 by dvornik Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39592-problem-hard-drive/#findComment-293280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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