iAge Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 I need help....Ive got 2 hard drives that im running a 160GB SATA and a 80GB IDE. Im running osx off the 80GB hard drive. When i have osx up and running my main problem is getting the other hard drive to be seen. I ask this cause all my music files plus others are on there and want to access them from osx.....any suggestions? any help would be appreciated....thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 You didn't post your mobo specs. but I would venture to say (1)Unsupported nVidia or other chipset SATA or (2)Unsupported format on the SATA that is not readable by OSX or (3)somehow your SATA drive has been hidden such that you need to unhide it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-38393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRob Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 iAge messeged me that it's a Gigabyte GA-8S648FX mobo. How do we unhide a hidden drive?? It is formatted with NTFS which he can easily fix. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-38415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 iAge messeged me that it's a Gigabyte GA-8S648FX mobo. How do we unhide a hidden drive?? It is formatted with NTFS which he can easily fix.SiS648FX board is probably not supported SATA: see Asus P4S8X-X http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ed_Motherboards. If HD is NTFS it should be readable unless it is unsupported SATA. You can see if a HD is hidden by using something like Partition Magic but that is probably not your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-38427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortis Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 iAge: Can you mount manually? (ie mount -t ntfs /dev/diskXpY /somewhere) I have a similar problem in a 915gm laptop MB. OSX does not recognize or automount the winxp ntfs partition, but I can mount it manually why does that happen? I'm not sure. maybe somebody could enlighten us! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-38514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAge Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 iAge: Can you mount manually? (ie mount -t ntfs /dev/diskXpY /somewhere) I have a similar problem in a 915gm laptop MB. OSX does not recognize or automount the winxp ntfs partition, but I can mount it manually why does that happen? I'm not sure. maybe somebody could enlighten us! We are still working on it.....any help from others would be much appreciated....thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-38631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAge Posted January 1, 2006 Author Share Posted January 1, 2006 My solution to my problem is that im going to buy a 250GB IDE HDD to put all my files on it. And then run osx off the 80GB IDE HDD (that i already have) and Win XP off my 120GB SATA HDD(that i already have). Having said that both XP and OSX will see the files off the 250GB hard drive because its an IDE, something osx, well you could say prefers to work with. Thats just a solution to my own problem. I think anyone in the same situation try that........ let me know how you go........... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-39308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlopSter Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I've read that to have files available between windows/osx you have to have them on a fat32 partition. OSX can't read an NTFS partition i guess and I know for sure that it can't write to it. - FlopSter #osx86 EFnet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-39338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 OSX can't read an NTFS partition i guess and I know for sure that it can't write to it.OSX certainly can read NTFS see for example: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=38607 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-39349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAge Posted January 2, 2006 Author Share Posted January 2, 2006 Yes i was also told that you had to have them on a fat32 partion that is true.....forgot to mention...sorry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-39438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickoes Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 You're doomed, SiS648FX is not supported at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6110-cant-see-xp-hard-drive-in-osx/#findComment-248436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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