iskomuhic Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Hey... I am a noob to os x x86 . I have tryed several versions on my Amd Turion 64 x2 1,6 ghz 1 gb ram 120 gb harddisk but no one seems to work. It is a laptop. One (10.4.8 jas) cant find the harddisk other (Toh Leopard) versions freeze during erasing the partition to Hfs+ journaled . Sorry for bad English. I want to make a duel boot system with vista and os x (any version). Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartNijland Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 If your HDD is SATA then try a IDE or external. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskomuhic Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 how can I do that. It is a laptop? and how do I see if it is a sata or ide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Adam Roach! Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 What is your laptop brand and model, I will look into this, in the meanwhile try this, be careful, don't save when you exit. If you know how to get into your BIOS on your laptop, get into it, if not, it should say "Press blah blah blah key to enter Setup" or "Press blah blah blah key to enter BIOS" or someting of that nature when the computer is booting up. Once in, it should have a blue background, and some options, look through everything and find a page that says something like "Primary" or "Slave" with a hard drive listed next to it, or "SATA 1" or "SATA 2" etc. with a hard drive next to it, if there is one next to SATA then you have a SATA hard drive, if not, it is IDE, but your CDROM drive will show up there as well, try to distinguish them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskomuhic Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 The bios says that the harddisk is on Sata 1. The laptop is a MEDION MD 98300 bougth in Aldi in May this year.by the way do you recommend any release of the os x x86? i have not tried 10.4.9 - 10.4.5 - 10.5.0 - 10.4.11 and 10.4.7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Adam Roach! Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 You cannot install on a SATA drive, sorry, you need an IDE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskomuhic Posted December 31, 2007 Author Share Posted December 31, 2007 why can't I when real macs use SATA harddisks? and I have found some topics that says that people have done an installation on SATA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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