No hard drive detected when installing OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3 [Hackintosh]

[textec]

Hey

I have a problem with my installation of OSX on my computer.

I finally got my memory stick set up to the point where I can start installing, but my hard drive is not detected by the system.

When I open disk utility all that shows up is the Flash Drive I'm booting from

I have also tried to add another flash drive in one of the other USB ports, but they didn't show up either.

Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth x58 socket 1366
Processor: Intel i7 3.20 GHZ
Ram: Corsair Dominator 1600 MHz
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900-series
Hard drive: Western Digital 250GB HDD

 

[Adrian B]

Hey

I have a problem with my installation of OSX on my computer.

I finally got my memory stick set up to the point where I can start installing, but my hard drive is not detected by the system.

When I open disk utility all that shows up is the Flash Drive I'm booting from

I have also tried to add another flash drive in one of the other USB ports, but they didn't show up either.

Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth x58 socket 1366
Processor: Intel i7 3.20 GHZ
Ram: Corsair Dominator 1600 MHz
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900-series
Hard drive: Western Digital 250GB HDD

Hi textec,

Welcome to the forums

If the hard drive is not showing up, then best check your bios settings again for the hard drive settings. Make sure that you save before exiting.


Adrian B

 

[textec]

I got my HDD set as 1 Boot device, and i select to boot from memory stick.

Still no hard drive showing up, earlier i had the HDD set as 2nd device.

 

[Adrian B]

I got my HDD set as 1 Boot device, and i select to boot from memory stick.

Still no hard drive showing up, earlier i had the HDD set as 2nd device.

HDD must be set for AHCI, this guide/thread might be of some help for your Asus Sabertooth X58 board http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...h-x58-ati-6850-i7-ssd-sata-3-ml-10-8-2-a.html

AMD Radeon settings may be different between your builds.

Adrian B

 

[jackharvest]

Hi textec,

Welcome to the forums

If the hard drive is not showing up, then best check your bios settings again for the hard drive settings. Make sure that you save before exiting.


Adrian B

Thank you sir!

load optimized defaults changed everything from achi to IDE. Crazy bios...