Gaurav Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Hi all! I got JaS 10.4.8 release and when I booted with it the Disk Utility thing does not recognize my HDD... btw I have a SATA 160GB 5200rpm HDD on my compaq pessario v3425AU notebook. Is it related to the HDD being SATA?? also i think many users have installed the JaS release on their SATA HDDs, so if SATA is the issue can they guide me how they got past this barrier during install?? Regards, Gaurav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I have got exactly the same problem , can anyone help? Sorry for hijacking your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitBaXeMan Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 You've already gotten into disk utility? You need to erase your drive or volume before it will show up in the installer. Hopefully that'll help, if not, then you're stuck right where I'm at... haha. I can't erase my hard drive, I get an "Insufficient Privileges" error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 The problem is that my HDD will not even show up in the disk utility only the DVD drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hi all! I got JaS 10.4.8 release and when I booted with it the Disk Utility thing does not recognize my HDD... btw I have a SATA 160GB 5200rpm HDD on my compaq pessario v3425AU notebook. Is it related to the HDD being SATA?? also i think many users have installed the JaS release on their SATA HDDs, so if SATA is the issue can they guide me how they got past this barrier during install?? Regards, Gaurav If the HDD is set as RAID in the BIOS then the installer/Disk Utility might not see it. You may have to set the BIOS so that "SATA as RAID" is changed to "SATA as AHCI" or "SATA as IDE". If the above does not apply to your setup then I'm afraid I can't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceeeko Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I have the same problem. But I have phoenixBIOS and it's nothing there that I could configure to be raid, ahci or anything else (on my laptop). On desktop comp. I have that option but cpu is to weak. Any help for my laptop bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 I also have a pheonix BIOS and I guess it doesn't have that option.. the reason I can't check it right now is bcause i dont have my notebook with me.. will take about 4 days to get it bak and check the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I have the PheonixBios aswell and i dont seem to be having this option in there .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I have the PheonixBios aswell and i dont seem to be having this option in there .. Then I think you're pretty much stuffed. There are some utilities that will let you hack your Phoenix BIOS to allow AHCI, but it's a risky endeavour. Below is a link that shows the necessary steps to tweak the BIOS of a Sony Vaio notebook which has a Phoenix BIOS. It's not, however, for the faint-hearted. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189228 CAUTION: If you don't know what you're doing, this could render your notebook FUBAR. My advice would be to buy yourself a cheap external USB HDD and install OSX86 onto that. And if that fails, you can always use it for a backup drive for your notebook or for large media files or whatever. Note that while the USB external should work, it will be sluggish compared to a SATA or PATA internal HDD. HTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amin Gillani Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 i've got IDE 250gb hardrive When i start installing Mac Os X jas 10.4.8 Version on my system on setup it shows 120gb i dont know why its its showing so low disc space plz help me out to resolve this problem & when i install windows xp or windows vista it's shows 250gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 What do i do so the stupid setup recognises my HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceeeko Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Everybody is saying search the forum... There is around 750 topics here-it's crazy to view all that... well I'm not going to hack my bios... i still have warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 ive read them all but still no answer lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 i've got IDE 250gb hardriveWhen i start installing Mac Os X jas 10.4.8 Version on my system on setup it shows 120gb i dont know why its its showing so low disc space plz help me out to resolve this problem & when i install windows xp or windows vista it's shows 250gb Does Disk Utility show an icon for your HDD under its manufacturer code, with the volume as a second icon with the name you've given it? If so, is 120GB the size of both the HDD and the formatted volume, or are the two things showing different sizes? (Use ctrl-click on each and choose info in case you're not sue how to do that). If there's only the HDD showing up, you'll probably need to FDisk the HDD and re-set it to the correct size before re-creating the partition. Can't remember how that's done off the top of my head, but it was one of the FDisk options. Recently I've been using Paragon PartitionMagic to do my partitioning stuff and it's a visual tool. Much better than command line options, I've discovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Everybody is saying search the forum... There is around 750 topics here-it's crazy to view all that...well I'm not going to hack my bios... i still have warranty. It may be that there's an updated BIOS for that notebook, or a similar version that shares the same BIOS chip that will 'unlock' the features you need. Google your computer's model # and the phrase 'BIOS update'. I'd be surprised if there isn't some existing work-around for you, but if not, my earlier post is all I'm able to suggest, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceeeko Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thanks AndrewNZ for your reply. I updateed my bios from v1.07 to v1.11 and it's still the same. I found update on acer page: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5520.html It says it's for vista but I installed it normaly with no problems... I didn't solve the problem but thanks anyway because you were trying to help me (us) - that is a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 I just figured out I have a nForce 430/410 chipset.. so getting kext for that.. will give u all the results tomorrow probably at the same time.. Those who want to give it a try goto: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77071 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 @Amin Gillani Hackintoshes have the issue where the max size that they will show ANY volume is 120GB. Your space is still 'there' though. I had the same issue, it was showing that I had more free that the actual size. @ceeeko Deal with it, it was your choice to make a hackintosh, and it won't be effort free, use the Search function, or even google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Gaurav how do you include the kext in the Tiger installation so it recognises your ATA? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 sorry, but I wasn't able to include kext yesterday.. moreover i found that my 6150 does not support QE/CI.. anywayz will give it a try.. Will get back in few hrs.. EDIT: ratz this VMWare thing is too slow for me.. I can't get past disk utility even.. I guess if someone else with the same chipset could try doing it For those who don't know how to inject kext into DVD see this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=67713 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermannschuelke Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I have the same Problem--- cause I have that {censored} Phoenix bios... has anyone an Idea how I could fix it now? i read that link about the one who hacked his bios, i would do this, but I'm not sure if I understand it correctly and also I don't know if it would work for MY notebook because it's not a VAIO... Could someone pleeease help me? Or can it be, that a newer OSX version for homebrew macs doesn't have that problem? If so? what version (exact name of image or some) would that be? I DON'T have 64bit processor. only 32bit. Greets and thanks for your help Hermann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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