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3,649 reads · 2010-04-28 – 2010-05-18
Note Snow Leopard 10.6 AHCI / SATA Retail DVD / USB

Help pls.:MY USB boot do not see my Hard drive.

Ok i restored my retail snow leopard DVD into USB and installed myhacks. osx86.soju garden.com/installer/ But the USB boot do not show any of my hard drive. tried setting ahci in Jmircron Sata in BIOS and also added the jmicron kext…

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@pokerk Published 2010-04-28
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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3,649 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2010-04-28 – 2010-05-18
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@pokerk (2)@Drule

Ok i restored my retail snow leopard DVD into USB and installed myhacks.
osx86.soju garden.com/installer/

But the USB boot do not show any of my hard drive.

tried setting ahci in Jmircron Sata in BIOS

and also added the jmicron kext
cid-8b65993ef55cf014.skydrive.li ve.com/browse.aspx/.Public/OSx86/Snow%20Leopard/Drivers%20kext%20%5E5Sterowniki%5E6/==%20Chipset%20-%20%20SATA%20%5E0%20IDE%20Controllers%20==?view=details

Nothing helps.

Can some one help? i wasted whole day trying with GUID format , MBR format of my USB.

Only MBR format of USB boots.

But still no hard drive showing in installation screen... Anyone? Any gurus?

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Author Update #1 @pokerk 2010-04-28

Tried with one unformatted hard disk , ahci enabled , disabled. Added all kext in myhack page bottom.

Nothing works. It boots up comes to the page where it shows my USB only. No other hard disk is showing.

How did so many people made it to work? What i am missing?.

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1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Drule 2010-05-18

Did you set your BIOS to allow booting from a USB/Removable drive?

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@pokerkPrimary Author22010-04-28
@DruleContributor12010-05-18