carmelo42 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Hello. I have an Acer Aspire laptop, with a SATA HDD. I can install OS X on an external HDD. Can I "restore" the install of OS X on the external disk to a partition on my internal SATA disk ? How can I do this ? thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodfx Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 i have had this same problem. you have to go to your bios and set the sata as ide interface reboot on the dvd and it shows up under disk utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 yeah, that is usually the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4RZ4N Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Look for Legacy Mode for your SATA in BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmelo42 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 I have already been to the bios : the only option wiht the HDD is to set a password ... Nothing about SATA or IDE ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacman Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 You could look up the specs on your laptop, find what SATA controller it uses, and see if there's a driver available for it by googling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmelo42 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 it's a SB450 controller (I have seen that under Linux) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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