CiViCKiDD Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've got a Compaq SR1010Z with a SiS964 chipset, 250GB harddrive with 3 partitions, one which had Vista on it, one which will hopefully boot OSx86, the other which will boot Ubuntu. Problem is, when I boot upchuck's 10.4.9 1.4a disc I don't see any available harddrives. When I go into Disk Utility, it shows that my 250GB hd has a max capacity of 128.0 GB, and doesn't see any of the partitions I created. I've been working on this for hours, help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62310-cant-see-partitioninstall-due-to-128gb-barrier-with-sis964-chipset-any-way-to-fix-this/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiViCKiDD Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62310-cant-see-partitioninstall-due-to-128gb-barrier-with-sis964-chipset-any-way-to-fix-this/#findComment-441793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appleseedling Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Long story short.. .there's an apparent 'bug' in disk utility which shows every drive I've tried as a max of 128GB. Though you can use something else to partition the drive like a gparted live cd... or a legit mac etc. I read something somewhere.. which -may- have said to format the partition as something -Other than- GUID or extended hfs..... but I really can't remember. Try making all the partitions FAT32 and see what the OSX86 installer sees. I also had issues with disk util seeing any drive/partitions when they were created in linux.. but I probably didn't make the correct types. I can report that sticking the Hdrive in a legit mac and wiping it into a single GUID partition..does work... does show up at install time as the true capacity it was formatted as.... does install and boot properly thereafter. Thus far.. that's the Only way I've been able to install JaS 10.4.8 to a full drive capacity. Dunno about your rather ambitious triple boot.. (and btw, wtF w/ the Vista? let it sink into the pacific)... but if you use disk util to partition the drive at 128GB.. it'll leave the rest of the drive as free space... which I imagine you could use for the Linux after the fact. Linux isn't as picky about what partition it's on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62310-cant-see-partitioninstall-due-to-128gb-barrier-with-sis964-chipset-any-way-to-fix-this/#findComment-441844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiViCKiDD Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 Thanks for the info..I was using gparted the whole time to create my partitions though. I moved one 30gb partition to the left of my 180gb vista partition (a process which took a good 10 hours), made sure Vista booted with no problems (needed to be "repaired" but worked after that), then popped in my osx86 disc. I think I clicked partition in Disk Utility, and while I don't recall actually creating anything I didn't hit revert before rebooting...well, looks like I wiped out all my partitions. Can anyone recommend a partition undeletion program? There are a few out there, I'm just not sure what's good and what's not. A lot of my old college documents/programs were on that drive (I'm a retard for not backing it up) and I'm kind of bummed I lost them... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62310-cant-see-partitioninstall-due-to-128gb-barrier-with-sis964-chipset-any-way-to-fix-this/#findComment-442587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
goocy Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I made a pretty similar mistake, and Partition Table Doctor helped well and fast. Make sure you run Chkdsk after you repaired your Partition Table to get your data back into place. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62310-cant-see-partitioninstall-due-to-128gb-barrier-with-sis964-chipset-any-way-to-fix-this/#findComment-447080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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