ColdZer0 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 anyone know how to fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawakol Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 you need to format the drive in windows first, it cant be just unallocated space. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-683418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdZer0 Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 What do i format it to? I made a partition but read not to format it so just left it. I also have another partition with ntfs which is my xp partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-683458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urgonah8me Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 format to fat32 primary partition Use disc director to format Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-683517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdZer0 Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 OK I have completely reformatted my hard drive with nothing on it to FAT32 and ran the disk and it still only shows my DVD drive in Disk Utilities :S Please I really wanna sort this out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-683638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdZer0 Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 Please come on Ive got a laptop just sat there... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-683705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarunrs Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 hey, I'm facing the same problem too. My hard drive is not gettin recognised in the disk utility. Here's wat i did. In windows i created 2 extra partitions. both primary. I made the third partition as active. This followin the guide written for dual bootin on the wiki. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-720617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissehB Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 This is an old topic but I'm having this problem =/ I have 2 70GB partitions. 1 is NTFS with Vista and the other is FAT32 which I want Mac on... Using iAtkos 5i Install DVD... I open disk utility and there's nothing there. My hard drive isn't showing up... =/=/ Help please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95798-hard-drive-not-showing-up-disk-utility-only-cd-drive/#findComment-1008781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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