midlandskatecom Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I can't install osx86 on my machine because of the whole SATA hard drive issue. So what you would think is that I would need to use an ATA hard disk. Well, that's all dandy and cool with me, but I have no way of connecting one internally. So what do i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 You could try an external USB or Firewire drive. (Firewire is better) Listing your machine specs would help also, is this a laptop? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-446737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 It's a dell dimension e521 CTO AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2ghz 1.5gb DDR2 RAM 250gb SATA HDD nVidia nForce 430/410 chipset mobo nVidia GeForce 7300LE graphics I've been looking at enclosures and from video editing i know that firewire is much better, but would a usb enclosure be a decent enough choice? i only plan on having a hackintosh until i can afford a mac pro (a few months) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-446740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnmacone Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 i did my install on a usb harddrive first . next i used SuperDuper to copy the 10.4.10 install to my SATA hard drive. the os will not install on my SATA hard drive so i did it that way. works for me i hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-446767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 helps tons, thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-446927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrybotte Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 i did my install on a usb harddrive first . next i used SuperDuper to copy the 10.4.10 install to my SATA hard drive.the os will not install on my SATA hard drive so i did it that way. works for me i hope this helpsturnmacone, I did the same installation on an external usb drive, but i did noyt know how to read the content of it..if this method works for me your help will be really providential!!thx a lotaleanyway,the problem is that this superduper works for macand so, how can i pass the content of my usb hard drive within windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-451124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy25 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 sorry for the stupid question, it's just that i am a super noob at this but exactly how do i setup up my partition so i can use SuperDuper? i already have a 14gb unallocated active partition that shows up on Windows, now how can i transfer from mac os x to my SATA, since my SATA does not seem to show up on MAC os x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63090-how-to-work-around-sata-hard-drive/#findComment-451568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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