Tukotih Doji Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hello! Im in general a VERY VERY experenced Computer User and knew several Programming Languages, Own an totally modded iPhone and making progams for it (And got my own repository) I have gotten very very many servers before, Knowing alot of partitioning, But with this stuff with X86 im like Blind or something... But i am really in need of Mac OS X on my PC, My Specs Are: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (~2Ghz) Physical Memory: 1,5 Gb BIOS: Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00 Primary Hard Drive: ST3160023AS ATA Device 160 GB (Got Vista on this Drive) Secondary Hard Drive: ST3160023AS ATA Device 160 GB (Want to install Mac OS X on this drive since then i can Dualboot directly from my BIOS. Primary DVD Drive: HP DVD Writer 740b ATA Device (I {censored}ed up something somewhen so now it ca t read or burn Normal CDs) Secondary DVD Drive: Asus DVD E616A ATA Device Tested Releases: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2 SSE3 (Was the torrent name... Dont remember the Real one...) Here goes my problem! When i Boot up into the Mac OS X installation DVD everything goes perfect, But when im going to install it it cant identify my harddrive(s)... Except for one! My 300Gb Firewire Portable Harddrive... But i cant install onto an Portable Harddrive... Right? It says that 0 of 298 Gb is used but in windows its almost full I have no idea on how to make this... PLEASE HELP ME! Im Sorry to pretend as an Spammer (This is my first post) Note: I uploaded an DxDiag Report incase i should have forgotten something... Edit: 100 Views and no solution... If i should give up and it is impossible please write so... DxDiag.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindmist Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 is this in disk utility or when it asks to select the install destination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukotih Doji Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 is this in disk utility or when it asks to select the install destination? Well it doesnt find my portable firewire drive in the installer. Nothing is showed there at all. But in the disk manager it comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Except for one!My 300Gb Firewire Portable Harddrive... But i cant install onto an Portable Harddrive... Right? No, you can install 10.5.1 on an external drive. I've done it... I have better luck with USB drives - my computer hardware makes it easy to boot from USB HDD's. Mac's love Firewire, and I've used Firewire drives also. You can't use Zephyroth's 10.5.1 on your internal drive because it's SATA? You'll have to partition the external drive - and make sure your PC will boot from it attached as Firewire. Better back-up all the stuff on it first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukotih Doji Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 No, you can install 10.5.1 on an external drive. I've done it... I have better luck with USB drives - my computer hardware makes it easy to boot from USB HDD's. Mac's love Firewire, and I've used Firewire drives also. You can't use Zephyroth's 10.5.1 on your internal drive because it's SATA? You'll have to partition the external drive - and make sure your PC will boot from it attached as Firewire. Better back-up all the stuff on it first... Yeah... I really hate that amount of memory on the disk but ill try... In the meantime... Is there someway to install it on my Harddrive? I mean... After all, With my BIOS and such, I dont think it will allow booting from Firewire Disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukotih Doji Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 It is now confirmed, My BIOS do not allow booting from USB/FireWire Device. I Installed an easy Linux at the drive for a start but it doesnt boot up so i need it to get on one of those other drives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukotih Doji Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Anyone got another Solution? (Yes... This IS a bump, Sorry if it is against the rules, Im kinda new here...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greensocks42 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I am having the same problem with my Leopard install. i have the pheonix award bios and i am unsure of what bios settings to use to install it. i could not get it to recognize my sata HD but i was able to install it on an IDE drive. Although i was able to install i was unable to get it to boot. i tried the -x command but still nothing. it just keeps wanting to reinstall. is there any hope for me?? what about with the new zyphor(something) ver. 2??? my specs are as follows cpu- 5000+ black box RAM- 2x1gb patriot extreme ddr2 800 HD- WD 120 IDE HD- WD 250 SATA Bios- Pheonix - Award WorkstationBIOS CMOS V6.00 mobo-Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard All help is greatly appreciated, I feel the love oozing from this forum, you guys are great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greensocks42 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 am i allowed to bump this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tukotih Doji Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Yes, Since i still need help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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