slipstream Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 System is AMD 64 with a SATA drive that boots XP 64 and 1 slave drive which is PATA Wont see the SATA drive when I try to install.. This computer uses a nForce4-4X sata controller so I assume this doesnt work and there is no work around. Can I install OSX to the other drive being a PATA slave drive? I actually installed OSX to an external USB hard drive but on reboot even thought there is an option in the BIOS to boot from a USB drive it doesnt work with OSX on it just goes straight to XP 64 So whats the best way for me to go? I have a 10.4.6 patched OSX disk . thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60514-install-osx-to-second-slave-pata-hard-drive-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
olmirror Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Should be no problem, boot from the dvd, install it on your slave drive and boot either through your bios onto the either osx or windows - or install acronis bootloader on XP, this will recognize OSX and your set to go. Got the same setup as you, OSX on slave. Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60514-install-osx-to-second-slave-pata-hard-drive-possible/#findComment-430058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipstream Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 Should be no problem, boot from the dvd, install it on your slave drive and boot either through your bios onto the either osx or windows - or install acronis bootloader on XP, this will recognize OSX and your set to go. Got the same setup as you, OSX on slave. Good luck Tried that and no matter what I seem to do the no hard drive shows up in the disk utilities menu alls i see is the install dvd rom. So my setup is SATA disk on first port set to primary ATA drive on IDE channel set as a slave. I can see the drive in XP it is a primary set active and formated to fat32 any ideas? what is your exact HD setup and how was your drive set when you installed osx? was it unformated or some other way. I tried unformated but had some issues with acronis setting it to hidden.. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60514-install-osx-to-second-slave-pata-hard-drive-possible/#findComment-430135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipstream Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 now it sees it. I used diskpart in windows as some instructions siad the problem now is though diskutility sees it in the osx installer anything i try to do with it it errors with disk input ouput if i try to format it, make it into a partition.. this is crazy it works perfect this drive in XP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60514-install-osx-to-second-slave-pata-hard-drive-possible/#findComment-430412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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