Disk Utility
## Automatic notice to thread opener: If you post this kind of message into the News Category again, your Account will be disabled Currently the fast few days i have been messing around with this OSX stuff. I cant seem to find away to get…
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Currently the fast few days i have been messing around with this OSX stuff. I cant seem to find away to get the disk utility to recognize my hdd, it will show my dvd drive and my externals if they are plugged in. i was wonderign if i had to configure something on my hdd for it to work. I don't know what kind of drive it is but it is in my laptop it is 160gb with a 37gb partition ready for leopard. How could i find out how to see if my harddrive is compatible. I am using a Hp Pavilion DV6607nr if anyone can help me out that would be great thanks!
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i have it installed to my external but i cant seem to be able to load into it hwo would i manage to do that?
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http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295877.pdf ↗
There's the link to HP's user manual for your laptop. Page 98 says your hard drive is SATA. Your motherboard has a nvidia nforce chipset. There's a problem with Zephyroth 10.5.1 and nforce SATA controllers... There are a bunch of posts about it - some here - most on insanelymac... Install to an external drive or insert the proper .kexts into a new Install .iso (might not be as easy as it looks...)
Get the boot menu up by pressing F2 or equivalent and then select your external drive. If all you get is a flashing underscore then try the wiki bootloader fix.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @Kimbrojw2 | Primary Author | 2 | 2008-01-24 → 2008-01-30 |
| @cgsheen | Contributor | 1 | 2008-01-24 |
| @damnesiac | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-03 |