daed Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I know there are tons of threads about partitioning problems, trust me, I've read them all. But none of it has worked and my problem is a bit strange. Basically, Disk Utility thinks my hard drive is SATA when its really IDE. Here's my set up: Dell 9300 Laptop Intel Pentium M w/ SSE2 60GB IDE Internal HD - 45GB Vista (NTFS) Partition - 10.8GB FAT32 Partition The goal is to convert that FAT32 partition into a HFS+ journaled to install OS X 10.4.8 (JaS Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3). When I run Disk Utility it show my HD, but no partitions, just a 55.8GB HD. What's more, down at the bottom it says "Connection Bus: Serial ATA." Is it because Disk Util thinks I have an SATA that I can't see any partitions? If so, how do I fix it? There's no option about SATA in my BIOS since my mobo doesn't support SATA. I've also tried the id=af thing with DiskPart in windows but same problem. Thanks for any suggestions you might have. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48022-disk-utility-thinks-i-have-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
daed Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 Oh, nevermind. The problem was that my cluster size for the FAT32 partition was too big (16Kb), I changed it to 4 Kb and things worked like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48022-disk-utility-thinks-i-have-sata/#findComment-343934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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