Ok first a warning - complete and utter noob. So I found my idiot proof guide-

I'm following this guide exactly How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook - Dell mini 10v hackintosh - Gizmodo
Bought a brand new dell mini 10v, copy of snow leopard, usb. Did everything it says. I get to the spinning apple screen, language choice, then it asks me where I want to install leopard. I'm told to format my hard drive - yet only the usb drive is showing up in disk utility.

Surely I can't have an unsupported hard drive, seeing as dell mini 10v is 'the' hackintosh netbook at the moment...? Am I just being thick?

If someone could help me out I'd very much appreciate it! I have an external cd drive but no external hard drive and no money to buy one, so if my hard drive is at fault I'm a tiny bit pooped.

Thanks a lot

I am in the EXACT same position as you. have you figured out whats wrong or gotten any responses??

Nope, nothing I can find a plethora of articles on the internet about other hardware etc, but the dell 10 is clearly supported so tbh I have no idea. No replies back yet, going to try emailing one or two of the moderators.
Let me know if you hear anything back

Can no one help?

Been searching for days to resolve this, I notice to date no replies here, has anyone gotten by this? Im in the same boat right now, PLEASE HELP.

Ha, glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem!

Nope, no luck. Put adverts on gumtree etc asking for anyone who knows about macs/hackintoshes to help me, emailed some people selling them on ebay, emailed all the moderators on here - so far no one's gotten back to me.

You're welcome to have a go emailing the moderators too, apparently theyre supposed to help. Let me know if you have any luck?!

have you tried sub'ing in another brand Hard drive, I think thats my next step, possibly a compatibility issue.

Tbh I wouldnt have a clue how to do that. Are you using the dell mini 10v too? Because not only would I have thought swapping hard drives difficult in a netbook, but if its a compatability issue then surely all the other people who have hacked the 10v would have encountered the same problem? I mean I got mine new from dell... so I assume the hard drive is the same as in the gizmodo guide etc?

Originally Posted by belovedfool

Tbh I wouldnt have a clue how to do that. Are you using the dell mini 10v too? Because not only would I have thought swapping hard drives difficult in a netbook, but if its a compatability issue then surely all the other people who have hacked the 10v would have encountered the same problem? I mean I got mine new from dell... so I assume the hard drive is the same as in the gizmodo guide etc?

perhaps, my HD is a WD 160GIG, Im leaning more toward a SATA issue or the way SATA is being addressed (chipset). tonight I built a usb stick to install, set up and old HD as a USB external. installed fine and rebooted off the external drive ran fine just slow accessing via USB. removed and formatted my internal HD with my Hacintosh desktop, used copycatx made a disk image backup of the drive and restored it to the WD160.
reinstall and presto....grey screen with an apple, the spinning wheel, then a nice no os symbol. the issue Im having is why just a few of us, we need to figure out what our units have in common. at this point I WILL borrow a SATA HD from someone tomorrow and start there.

Something new about this problem...

I'm having the same problem, my Drive is a Sansung 160 Ata...

Yesterday I tried many things...nothing...

I heard about a Kernel, o something like that...