Disk Utility
## Automatic notice to thread opener: If you post this kind of message into the News Category again, your Account will be disabled Currently the fast few days i have been messing around with this OSX stuff. I cant seem to find away to get…
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Currently the fast few days i have been messing around with this OSX stuff. I cant seem to find away to get the disk utility to recognize my hdd, it will show my dvd drive and my externals if they are plugged in. i was wonderign if i had to configure something on my hdd for it to work. I don't know what kind of drive it is but it is in my laptop it is 160gb with a 37gb partition ready for leopard. How could i find out how to see if my harddrive is compatible. I am using a Hp Pavilion DV6607nr if anyone can help me out that would be great thanks!
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http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295877.pdf ↗
There's the link to HP's user manual for your laptop. Page 98 says your hard drive is SATA. Your motherboard has a nvidia nforce chipset. There's a problem with Zephyroth 10.5.1 and nforce SATA controllers... There are a bunch of posts about it - some here - most on insanelymac... Install to an external drive or insert the proper .kexts into a new Install .iso (might not be as easy as it looks...)
i have it installed to my external but i cant seem to be able to load into it hwo would i manage to do that?
Get the boot menu up by pressing F2 or equivalent and then select your external drive. If all you get is a flashing underscore then try the wiki bootloader fix.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @Kimbrojw2 | Primary Author | 2 | 2008-01-24 → 2008-01-30 |
| @cgsheen | Contributor | 1 | 2008-01-24 |
| @damnesiac | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-03 |