Mavricks Install Disc Utility No Hard Drives Shown

[Supastevee]

Hi guys, so i'm installing Mavericks on my PC. When I get to step 4. (Install OSX Mavericks) and get to the part where I use disc utility to format a drive for MAC the only drive I see available is the USB I have UNIbeast on. On the Chimera boot screen I can see all 3 hard drives I have connected to my motherboard via SATA cables. I have also tried plugging the hard drives into different sata ports on the motherboard.

Do I need to somehow format the drive to Mac OSX Journal before the disc utility can see it?

Drives:
128GB Samsung SSD - Has my windows 7 os on it NTSF
2tb WD HD - NTSF formated
500GB Toshiba - Unformated

No drives are displayed in disc utility.

Please help!

Thanks,

-Stephen

 

[daveeasa]

I am hitting the same problem as well, otherwise everything has gone smooth so far.

Thinking it's a bios setting for one/both of my drives.

G5 case w GA-Q77M-D2H, i7-3770 and GV-N760OC-2GD

 

[daveeasa]

It looks like setting the SATA controller to AHCI fixed my problem. Optimized defaults resets that to IDE so make sure to double-check that bit.