EddieR Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Hi A Friend of mines has purchased the following laptop: Acer Extensa 5220 -Intel Celeron 530 (1,73GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache) -15.4" WXGA LCD -Up to 64MB Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 -1GB DDR2 (increased with 512MB) -80GB HDD -DVD-Super Multi DL -802.11b/g WLAN He releates when he boots the OSX DVD, and goes into Disc Utility to format the hard drive, disc utility isn't even detecting the drive, is there a solution to this by chance ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th0ms0n Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 does he have the latest bios firmware? there is a new on at acer v1.18 which supports new setting vor HD drive...with which you can set the drive vom s-ata to ide...maybe this works... my mother got the same notebook (with linux). can you drop me a message, if osx work on your mates acer? thanx!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieR Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 does he have the latest bios firmware? there is a new on at acer v1.18 which supports new setting vor HD drive...with which you can set the drive vom s-ata to ide...maybe this works... my mother got the same notebook (with linux). can you drop me a message, if osx work on your mates acer? thanx!!! th0ms0n Thanks for the reply, and great idea about the Bios, I know he said he had just purchased it from the net, so maybe Bios hssn't been updated, I will relate to him what you have stated, and await his reply. Thanks, Once again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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