Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD

[Kevinl86]

Hey Guys, here are my specs.
WD 160 GB SATA HDD
2GB DDR400 RAM
Gigabyte GA-K8U MotherBoard (SATA ULI M1689 Chipset)
AMD 64 3700+ Clawhammer (sse, sse2 only) --Using sse2 injected .iso
ATI X1950GT AGP

I have Three partitions, two with my windows stuff and the Third (10GB) for my OSX Part.
I did the diskpart and created the partition as instructed.
However, I don't believe my problem is the partitions themselves because I cannot see anything in Disk Utility.
My Motherboard has always required me to insert a floppy with the appropriate SATA drivers before I can install any version of windows.
So I believe that's the problem I'm having here, OSX cannot recognize my HDD because the correct drivers aren't loaded at startup.
Can anyone guide me in the right direction here?

Thanks!

-Kevin

[DoiX]

mess around with the jumper settings , lol wait.. you did manage to install osx right or you can't because the sata hd are not detected in the disk utility (in the dvd)?

[naquaada]

I don't think you'll be able to run Leopard on this machine, so that it'll be fun. SSE2 only is not the problem, but mainly the ULi chipset and that it's an AGP board. I am interested myself if Leopard supports AGP 'cause I have myself a SSE2/AGP machine (using it actually).

Nevertheless: I would recommend a single HD for using MacOS X cause it uses a different file systems and there could be some problems using a combined HD. Dual booting is also easier to realize with two harddisks. Use an IDE HD, it's the safest way. But again, I'm not sure if ULi is supported.

To the Windows installation: it asks every time at the installation for a possible needed driver disk. Normally it is only neccessary if you have an 3rd-party controller which is not integrated in the chipset, like an PCI SCSI controller or onboard RAID controllers. I have on my boards a SiliconImage SiI3114 Raid controller. If I wouldn't give Windows the driver disk at the beginning I would not be able to boot from this controller. But I can boot from the standard IDE and SATA controllers which are part of the nForce chipset. If you really needed a driver disk to detect the SATA HD you can skip installing OS X on that drive. Have you ever tried to install Windows without a driver disk?

[Kevinl86]

I always needed a driver disk to install windows on this particular setup.
You're probably right, I wont be able to run it.
I'm just going to sell my machine and buy a macbook air lol
Thanks guys

-Kevin

[Kevinl86]

Yeah the problem DoiX, is that I can't see my HDD in the Disk Utility on the DVD.
It does show my IDE CD-DVD Combo Drive, It wont show my SATA DVD Burner Drive Either..

[DoiX]

wait for rev2... maybe your SATA hdd will be recognize

[Kevinl86]

Zephyroth, could you please add support for my Mobo/Sata Combo?
Thanks man.

[zephyroth]

If there 's support for your chipset of course. If not ...

[1207FX]

I am downloading BootCamp.dmg can I dual boot windows from my PC Mac install as a real Mac does?

[naquaada]

Don't think so 'cause you have no real mac Are you using two seperate harddisks? Then you could use the Windows boot selector, its easy.