theethan77 Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I built my computer and knew i wnated SATA for my hard drive. I had Windows XP Home Edition running great [i paid for it, not pirated] dual booting with Linux: Fedora Core 4- x86 and this was also running perfect, along with a server running in fedora, and both dual booted flawlessly. Now a friend tells me i can install Mac OS X on my x86 PC! I'm like great, don't know much about it all but sounds awesome, so he sends me a dvd, and it boots... All is well untill it hits the 'select a drive to install on' part, and well the problem is, nothings there. My Computer: [built myself might i add] CPU: AMD 64-bit 3000+ socket 754 Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo Platinum with nForce3 Video card: VGA MSI nVidia GeForce FX 5200 RAM: single channel 512MB stick Hard Drive: Samsung 160 Gig SATA OS's used: Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 DVD [bought] Ubuntu Linux 3 DVD [open source] Fedora Core Linux 3 CD [open source] Fedora Core Linux 4 x86 DVD [open source] --Dual Boot WinXP | Fedora Core 4 any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4974-no-hard-drive-using-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Try Disk Utility in the Utilities menu in the installer. Be careful with the partitions though, as you can obviously wipe stuff out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4974-no-hard-drive-using-sata/#findComment-31665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 There are no Support for nForce SATA ports, only PATA. Remember to read the FAQ and Wiki first. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4974-no-hard-drive-using-sata/#findComment-31686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theethan77 Posted November 28, 2005 Author Share Posted November 28, 2005 I tried disk utility but see it doesn't recognize it, I'm posting more of because I want to know if I can update my controller or a different hardware configuration, using the SATA hard drive i have, i don't have the budget for another hard drive... getting ready to buy a Dean baby ML hee hee Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4974-no-hard-drive-using-sata/#findComment-32037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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