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How to format HFS+

Mobile AMD Sempron processor 3500+ 1,8 GHZ, 512 KB L2 cache. Graficcard: NVIDIA Geforce 7000M 2 GB DDR2 250 GB HDD (ATA DEVICE) DVD SUPER MULTI DOUBLE LAYER (ATA DEVICE) When I try to install MAC OSX by kalyway , the program only find my…

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@Gokciim Published 2008-12-05
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Leopard 10.5
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5,069 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2008-12-05 – 2008-12-08
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Mobile AMD Sempron processor 3500+ 1,8 GHZ, 512 KB L2 cache.
Graficcard: NVIDIA Geforce 7000M
2 GB DDR2
250 GB HDD (ATA DEVICE)
DVD SUPER MULTI DOUBLE LAYER (ATA DEVICE)

When I try to install MAC OSX by kalyway , the program only find my DVD ? i cant find the Harddisk? and they both are ATA DEVICES ?

How can i convert to HFS+ so the Mac OSX can read my Harddisk and find it?

I hope somebody can help me?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

3 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @nfoav8or 2008-12-05

The problem is not the format of the disk but rather the loading of the chipset "driver" or extension in OS X. What motherboard/chipset do you have?

Field Note #2 @gipo 2008-12-05 ↳ Re: @Gokciim
@GokciimMobile AMD Sempron processor 3500+ 1,8 GHZ, 512 KB L2 cache. Graficcard: NVIDIA Geforce 7000M 2 GB DDR2 250 GB HDD (ATA DEVICE) DVD SUPER MULTI DOUBLE LAYER (ATA DEVICE) When I try to install MAC OSX by kalyway , the program only find my DVD ? i cant find the Harddisk? and they both are ATA DEVICES ? How can i convert to HFS+ so the…

Dear Gokciim, you forget the most important thing... in your hardware's explain.
The motherboard.

Field Note #3 @Aydinz 2008-12-08

maybe im mistaken here but are you just asking how to format your hard disk to HFS+?

all you do is choose the utilies menu on the menu bar, choose disk utility, choose the hard disk, go to the erase tab and then erase and choose the mac journaled format

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@AydinzContributor12008-12-08