Unibeast boot not seeing my HDD to install to.

[SOLVED] Unibeast boot not seeing my HDD to install to.

Hello,

First time builder here. Building from scratch with an unformatted new HDD. When I boot using Unibest and get to the Mountain Lion insaller, it doesn't see my by HDD. The area where it should list disks to install to is just empty. I tried using the disk utility to format it, like it says in the directions, but that doesn't see the disk either. Is that because it's never ever been formatted or is it because I bought the wrong HDD?

My HDD is the Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 (I thought I was ordering the one off Tony's list but I screwed up... didn't know there were different 1TB Barracuda's... yeah I'm in trouble already lol).

I was wondering if I formatted the disk elsewhere would that help? Can I just format and set the dist to be MBR without installing anything on it on my windows 7 machine (my mac is a laptop and I don't know how I could hook up the HDD to that)? Are there other ways I should force the Mountain lion to see the disk at install? Something else I can do from the disk utility to force it to see the disk so I can format it?

Thanks!

If you are using a Gigabyte UEFI BIOS, there is a boot option where you specify Legacy or UEFI (towards the bottom of the system page). I've only been able to install ML when Legacy is selected as "only" or "first". One last thing - make sure your hard drive is in AHCI mode.

lokicat said:

If you are using a Gigabyte UEFI BIOS, there is a boot option where you specify Legacy or UEFI (towards the bottom of the system page). I've only been able to install ML when Legacy is selected as "only" or "first". One last thing - make sure your hard drive is in AHCI mode.

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Well I'm not sure if it was just this the whole time or if it was a combination of steps but once I switched the sata to AHCI it saw the drive. I also switched to Legacy mode (whatever that is) and I'm currently about to download Multibeast with my new (almost functioning) hackintosh.

Thanks All!

swirlystar said:

Well I'm not sure if it was just this the whole time or if it was a combination of steps but once I switched the sata to AHCI it saw the drive. I also switched to Legacy mode (whatever that is) and I'm currently about to download Multibeast with my new (almost functioning) hackintosh.

Thanks All!

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Thank You SOOOOOOO MUCH, i had the same problem, you saved my life