help installing snow leopard

the problem is that i cant see any drive to format
i can only see the usb stick
any idea?

hi i put all driver kextes in extra/extension but it still not working the ony drive i can see is the usb stick
has sombody the same problem

i´m using a pc : compaq
my motherboard preferences are:
ASUS PTGD1-LA Socket 775 ATX MB w/P4 3.4GHz

General Features:
Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
Supports up to 3.4 GHz CPU
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.4 GHz pre-installed
Socket 775
ATX Form Factor
800 MHz Front Side Bus
Supports up to 4GB DDR266/333/400
One FDD connector
RealTek ALC650 8-channel audio with Intel High Definition Audio CODEC
Supports 4 Serial ATA devices
Realtek RTL8101L LAN
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller

Expansion Slots:
One (1) PCI Express x16 graphics PEG slot
Three (3) PCI slots
No AGP slot

I/O Ports:
One (1) parallel port
One (1) video (VGA) port
Two (2) PS/2 ports
One (1) RJ-45 Fast Ethernet LAN port
One (1) IEEE 1394 port
Four (4) USB Ports
Six (6) audio ports support 8-channel audio configuration

Installed Processor:
Intel P4 LGA-775 CPU
3.40 GHz/1M/800

Supported Processors:
Intel LGA-775 CPU
800 MHz FSB
3.4 GHz max

Regulatory Approvals:
FCC
CE
BSMI

Package Includes:
ASUS (HP OEM) Socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz CPU

Notes:
Model: PTGD1-LA (Grouper)
HP P/N: 5187-7616
No manual or drivers included

hej thanks guys i finaly managed to install sl it was the kexts i used the wrong ones
thanks for your suport

Click the "tools" (I think) bar on the menubar. Click Disk Utilities, and format your HD to HFS+

Then choose the HDD.

How did you make the bootable stick? You probably missed to include the necessary kexts that support your SATA controller, if its not supported by OS X you definitely need to do that to see any disks.

Rebel6... please read my SL tutorial, it has many answer to your questions.

For instance, are you on a laptop? If so, DO NOT use Western Digital drives. Apple had major issues with them in real macbooks, I found out the hard way because I bought one and after 20 million attempts, the disk failed. Swapped for a Seagate and installed the first go.

Also another forum member reported the exact same thing!

In Snow Leo, after installing kext to EITHER E/E or S/L/E you must run Kext Utilities and the Repair Permissions

The first thing I'd do is find out what sata chipset (maker & model and device id if posible) you have there, then you can find out which exact kext you need, if there's one available.

It looks like your board has Intel ICH6 SATA Controller which I believe it doesnt support AHCI (you could check your BIOS settings just in case you have that option, but I doubt it).
You need a modded version or AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext with support for your ICH6 device id, your best bet would be this one from Dune ↗, its for Leopard 10.5.8 but it should work in Snow if you boot in 32 bits (-x32 or arch=i386). Alternatively you could try this other one from netkas ↗ or this other one from sigmaris ↗ which are built for Snow, but they are probably missing support for ICH6, you would have to add your ICH6 device id to its plist.