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Problems with Zephyroth AMD 10.5.2

When I boot into the installer and click on disk utilities, no partitions show up. Is there anyway to inject my sata driver into the disk or something? I have a new hp dv6784us, and I guess my SATA driver isn't supported. BTW: I can not…

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@cloudpjff7 Published 2008-03-14
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Leopard 10.5
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8,293 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2008-03-14 – 2008-03-15
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When I boot into the installer and click on disk utilities, no partitions show up. Is there anyway to inject my sata driver into the disk or something? I have a new hp dv6784us, and I guess my SATA driver isn't supported. BTW: I can not turn off SATA in my bios, it was removed in the newer bios. Any hints?

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Author Update #1 @cloudpjff7 2008-03-14

I have two macs, so if you can let me know what to do I can do it. I don't think the old bios support my laptop, because it is a new model.

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Field Note #1 @bhast2 2008-03-14

flash it back to the old bios
there is a way to inject the driver
but i think you need a mac to do it
as you can't do it in windows but i could be wrong

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