metalman Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hi everybody. I´m really sorry to bother you but I´ve installed the mac os x on my intel pc and i have a bit of a problem with the size of my hard drive. I have a 250 gb ATA 133 hard drive and the thing is that the mac os only recognized 127 gb of the total 250 gb. Does anyone know how to make it recognized the real size??? Any ideas and suggestions are more than welcome. Please if anyone knows something about this please help me i would really apreciatte it. Thank you all in advance. Greets. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hello metalman, Don't worry about bothering people, forums are for people with valid questions. Without knowing your hardware, my first guess is to check out the website of the manufacturer of your harddrive to see if they have a DDO (dynamic drive overlay) driver. A DDO is a driver that is installed on the disk that will "spoof" your bios into detecting the full capacity of the drive. This is usually the case with older BIOS's. Some drives even *require* that such a driver is installed (I ran into this with a Seagate drive). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-305754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Also make sure there's not a jumper on the back limiting the size, does windows see the drive correctly? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-305792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 First of all thank you both for answering me. My hard drive is a Western Digital (WDC 2500BB-00GUA0). I searched western digital´s website for the DDO driver but could´t find it, do you know were could I find it?? And to answer consolation´s question, yes windows does recognize my drive´s full capacity. Greets Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret-Simpson Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Another thing to ask, what revision of OS X are you using? For future reference, it's always good to include this information - As you may know, the kernel and drivers of 10.4.7 and below are all taken from 10.4.4 and the issue may be fixed in 10.4.8 JaS/Semthex. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Wait a minute -- Where is your Windows installed ? Is it on another drive? -- or is it on a partition on the 250 gig? Please furnish more details so that we know what we're dealing with. I'm wondering how Windows can see the full capacity of the drive when Windows can't read a Mac file system without TransMac installed (unless it is, of course). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 My OS version is the jas 10.4.6 version. I have windows installed on another hard drive but the 250 gb drive used to have windows in it and was fully recognized. If you need any other information let me know Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hmmmmm..... If thats the case, you don't need a DDO. Either it's a limitation of this version of "X", or the disk wasn't set up right. What method did you use to set up your disk / install "X"? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 I formated the disc as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), if that what you're asking. So what you are saying is that it can't be solved?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 It sounds like you did it right. I also have 10.4.6 on a dual boot with XP on seperate drives. "X" didn't recognize the full capacity of the drive I installed it on when Windows did. I'm dealing with a 40 gig Seagate but "X" only recognized 32 gigs when the previous Windows install did recognize the whole thing. After some research, I found that this particular brand won't reach full capacity without the DDO installed which was compatible with Windows but prevented "X" from booting. In short, it may not be the OS or your method in so much as it could be the drive itself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 so I guess that´s it, well with this and the sound problem i have i believe i will go back to XP. A shame really i have always wanted to have mac os. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help guys. Greets Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 You could always do a dual between "X" and XP in the remaining disk space. Sooner or later updates will come along that will fix your sound. My two cents...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-306232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aCruceSalus Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Sorry to bring up an old post, but I thought it best to post here than creating a new one. I have an eMachines m6811 laptop that has been running great with iPC 10.5.6 Final Release on a 80GB HD. I also have another 80GB HD with Vista 64 on it. It has been a pain to pull out one HD and replace it with another whenever I want to switch operating systems. So I went and bought a 320GB HD. I want to put OSx86 10.5.6 on a 100GB partition, XP on 100GB and the rest for Vista. The problem is that I have to use the Western Digital DDO to get XP and Vista to recognize the whole drive. After I get the DDO installed on the MBR, I can install XP or Vista, but it is easier to first install Leopard, install XP, install Vista and then go back and use the Leopard install disk to get the bootloader installed. I follow these instructions by nuttzy at this thread, Dual Boot Windows after Leopard I used iPC osx86 10,5,6 distro so dont know if it works with others. 1) have already installed leopard. 2) make another partition (atleast 25 GB or vista won't install) 3) boot into leopard. Go to disk utility and format that partition fat (ms DOS). (dont know if this is necessary. 4) install Vista. U will need to format partition again. 5) boot into vista check if everything is working and then put iPC dvd and restart. 6) Boot into iPC dvd and press next/continue choose your old leopard partition, go until customize button. Press it. uncheck all of the flags, and then chameleon boot loader only will be installed again. 7) after installing chameleon boot loader u have ur old leopard boot screen, before leopard starts press f8 and u can choose, VISTA or Leopard. And I use these instructions on Dual Boot Vista with XP installed first. You could always do a dual between "X" and XP in the remaining disk space... Can you please explain how to do this? When I leave the DDO installed on the MBR and set it to boot from HD first so I can get the Ontrack DDO screen in order to press c to boot from cd, the iPC 10.5.6 install disk won't run. It gives a "System config file '/com.apple.Boot.Slist' not found" error. If I set it to boot from cd first, I can install Leopard as before, but the Disk Utility only sees 128GB. Installing Leopard also wipes out the DDO in the MBR so I can't install XP or Vista, because the installation disks for XP or Vista doesn't see the whole drive. I also looked at just installing XP and Vista and installing VMWare on XP, but I can't get Leopard to install in VMWare. If I could just get Leopard to install in the first partition and then get XP and Vista to install on the rest of the drive, that would be great. But I am not sure at how to go about it. Some steps would be great. Thanks in advance. -Cruce Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42750-having-problem-with-the-hard-drive%C2%B4s-size/#findComment-1132818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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