I have been trying for 4 days now to dual boot my Acer Aspire 5516!!! Someone please help me out here.

These are the steps I have gone through:

I have a 160 gb hard drive that i shrunk(partitioned) then formatted.

Changed my bios AHCI and vise versa

So 80 gbs for windows and 80 unallocated.

I have then tried running ideneb 8 different ways with the hard drive raw, unallocated, partitioned in FAT32, exFAT, NTFS.

I have made this partition active, inactive you name it.

Can someone please tell me how to get this hard drive to show up so i can actually install ideneb 1.4. Please elaborate i am new at this and it is driving me nuts.

Below are my specs:

Processor - Athlon 64 1.6 GHz
Installed Memory - 2 GB (DDR2 SDRAM)
Hard Drive 160 GB
Display 15.6 in. WXGA
Operating System Windows 7

THANKS IN ADVANCE! PLEASE GUYS HELP ASAP S.O.S!

Can you post a picture of your disk utility?

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You have to format with disk utility
open disk utility select your target partition
select the erase tab
in the drop down select mac journaled
hit erase it will ask you to confirm
hit erase verify it all ok and countiue the install
the target partition shopuld now show up

The whole problem is I cannot see my targeted partition in disk utility.

Again these are the steps I have taken,

I Partitioned my 160 gb to 80 gbs for windows7 and 80 gb unallocated/raw.

I then TRY to install ideneb and when I get to the Disk utility and installer there is no visible hard drive. THERE ARE HARD DRIVES THAT APPEAR.

HOW TO I GET IDENEB TO SEE MY HARD DRIVE

ANY ADViCE?