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hard drive recognition troubles

ok what i have is a Seagate ST340823A 40 gig IDE hard drive. the odd thing is that the installer (of iatkos v7) doesn't see the drive, however the partition utility does see the drive, and when i try to format the drive to mac os extended,…

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@itachis.eyes Published 2009-11-28
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ok what i have is a Seagate ST340823A 40 gig IDE hard drive. the odd thing is that the installer (of iatkos v7) doesn't see the drive, however the partition utility does see the drive, and when i try to format the drive to mac os extended, the partitioner draws a partition map and then hangs right when it starts the formating.

i've just run out of ideas of where to go from here.

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Field Note #1 @Imkantus 2009-11-28

Get gparted Live CD - it should be able to create HFS volumes.

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