dragonseye Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I have an interesting problem during the install of OSX the Disk Utility will find my Seagate SATA 250GB HD but not my Maxtor 120 IDE. THe bios for my motherboard Asus A8V socket 939 with an AMD 64 3500+. Currently i have Win Xp on the SATA HDD and my intention is to use the IDE for osX. Windows will see the IDE hard drive, i have tried creating different partitions, formatting the HDD as both FAT 32 and NTFS, setting the partition to active, and setting the IDE hdd as the primary drive in the bios. osX still doesnt see it, does anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7157-disk-utility-finds-sata-but-not-ide-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonseye Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 Problem solved aparently the IDE HDD needed to be set as a master in order for OS x Disk Utility to find it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7157-disk-utility-finds-sata-but-not-ide-hd/#findComment-46182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsnuff1 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 what chipset does that ASUS mobo use? Im trying to get SATA to work with my nforce 4 chipset mobo but not luck so far Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7157-disk-utility-finds-sata-but-not-ide-hd/#findComment-59048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzlet Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 A8V is a Via board. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7157-disk-utility-finds-sata-but-not-ide-hd/#findComment-59338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I think use commond "diskpart" maybe an easy way for you. in winxp , run : cmd diskpart select disk 1 (maybe 2 because you have two HDD, in may case the IDE HDD is 1,and sata HDD is2 ) list partition select partition 1 ("1"should be the partition that you want to install mac os x , and the this partition should be a master but extend parititon) delete partition (notice this action will destroy data @ this partition) create partition primary id = af exit now , you can have a try with MAC OS X disk util Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7157-disk-utility-finds-sata-but-not-ide-hd/#findComment-59531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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