thefighter Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 (edited) I have a Maxtor Maxtor 6L250S0 SATA (Details here: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...ationKey=0&v=2 I think thats it, lol) Hard Drive. I read things posted on this forum and I made unallocated space using PartitonMagic, then using diskpart made it into the type af, which is for HFS+ I reboot my computer and load up the setup wizard, it displays no partitions at all, its just blank. Then I go to disk utility and it only has my DVD/RW there, with the mac disks in it. Can anybody explain to my why this is happening? Is it something to do with SATA? If so, whats the workaround, because I want it Native. Thanks in advance TheFighter EDIT - Forgot to post my stats: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ ASUS A8N-E Motherboard 1GB (DDR400 I think) Maxtor 6L250S0 SATA Sony DVDRW DW-Q28A Nvidia GeForce 6600 Nvidia nForce Audio Nvidia nForce Networking Controller Edited December 15, 2005 by thefighter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmz Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 I got the same problem with my SATA-controler & HD.. check out this list, if your hardware is supported. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCLPart#IDE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 Yer but I dont know which version is my controller, and I dont really know what IDE and SATA and all this has to do with each other, its confusing me. Can somebody please explain? Thanks TheFighter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfinstinct Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 (edited) I had this same problem. This is what i did, it may vary depending on your BIOS. Press F2 to enter BIOS setup go to drives ->SATA Operation Change from RAID Autodetect/ AHCI to RAID Autodetect/ ATA This may not work for you, but its worth a try? Edited December 15, 2005 by wolfinstinct Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc_guru Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 First, you must to know if your processor at least support SSE2, if you don't know it, you can find it using this program : cpu_z_130.zip, is a little app, doesn't require installation and run under all Win32. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmz Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Well, your mb's chipset is Nvidia nForce4 Ultra and currently that SATA controler is not supported by 10.3.4. If you dont want to buy a new hd or sata->ide-converter I suggest you wait for 10.4.4. Read this: http://forum.osx86project.org/lofiversion/....php/t3851.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 Thanks for all your posts guys, much appriciated Firstly pc_guru, Yes it supports SEE2 SEE3 PAE and everything else (not so sure about NX but that doesnt make any difference to this I don't think) so im in the clear here. wolfinstinct, I will try this, but my BIOSis really quite rubish (Phoenix Award I think) Because I went in there before to try and find a switch for PAE, but theres not many options in my BIOS I noticed. I dont really use BIOS much... Drmz, yeesh I hope this aint true. Doesn't support it?!? Argh man! After all that work trying to get the damn thing to actually boot! (like, 18disks I think) Is there no patch that can make it supported?....And I think I will skip buying a new hard drive, but how much does the sata >ide converter cost? And is it easy to connect?....Might void my warrenty, which wouldn't be too good. Thanks for all your help guys TheFighter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmz Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Np mate.. Well, atlast I havent found a patch for it, but if you do, please tell me. =) SATA->IDE converter about 25-35$.. heres one link about it http://geek.pricegrabber.com/search_getpro...asterid=3152857 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-36999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) So thats about......£10 for me So whats the nForce kext files (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=3851) they are basically a patch, im just going to add them with TransMac, see what happens. I will have to remove the 'extensions.kext' file that I added last time, im not quite sure what that file does yet though, lol Edit: Wait, I just read it a bit more thoroughly, no support for SATA.....damn Edited December 16, 2005 by thefighter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-37003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmz Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 In http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=3851 nick called macgirl says "No SATA support yet, this is a modified nForce 3 driver that works on nForce 4, only PATA." .. but if you get it to work, pls msg me.. =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-37005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 lol, I doubt I will.....Im not that smart, I know nothing of any of the kext files and all the code that goes with them and how they work. Oh well, wait for the next build I shall:) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5833-disk-utility-hard-drive-not-there/#findComment-37034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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