Recent content by aVancouver

  1. aVancouver

    Wanting to change small SSD Drive (System Drive) to bigger capacity SSD Drive

    Thanks for the fast reply, Yes, my picture is my angle of access. Before I make the connection I'll try to squeeze past the cable management on the other side to get a better view of the connection. Therefore it doesn't matter which slot it goes in; as I am replacing the present System Drive...
  2. aVancouver

    Wanting to change small SSD Drive (System Drive) to bigger capacity SSD Drive

    Thanks, I just want to make sure I connect the drive to the right part of the motherboard so I can clone it. Here's one screenshot of the connections, I believe. Maybe this photo will help; is it the connection where the white label or would it be below the label and on the other side of the...
  3. aVancouver

    Wanting to change small SSD Drive (System Drive) to bigger capacity SSD Drive

    I opened my box and notice that I don't have all the cables required to connect the new ssd drive. Bigger wider cable looks like it's being daisy chained from one drive to the other and another smaller cables seems like it connects to the motherboard is missing. Does this/these cables come with...
  4. aVancouver

    Wanting to change small SSD Drive (System Drive) to bigger capacity SSD Drive

    In the Buyers Guide I look under older built recommendations supported 10.11.4+ I am replacing my system drive because there not much room left on it. I like to put in a 1 or 2TB System Drive. I want to make a safe and easy install choice. I will clone the system drive then swap them. I...
  5. aVancouver

    Wait for Kaby Lake chips or go with Core i7-6700K

    Did your system work out? My system was working with El Capitan until I screw it up trying to change permission on the root drive. I then tried to load Sierra with no success... Going to try to go back to El Capitan Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 5 i7 Intel Core 6700K Gigabyte Geforce GTX 750ti...
  6. aVancouver

    Trying to load Sierra

    When creating the flash drive, is it important to add '1 partition' to be successful? when I was erase my flash drive the partition tab was greyed out
  7. aVancouver

    Trying to load Sierra

    I am newbie, I had El Captain running on my Hackintosh but once I tried to change permissions on the root drive I screw it up. Now I am trying to upgrade to Sierra and I have a bootable disk that's detected and I loaded Sierra on the my boot drive but after it was all over it wouldn't boot up...
  8. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    I am trying to figure out how to update my OS to Sierra without erasing what on the root drive as a first resort. Is there a way that I can update to Sierra from El Captain if my computer doesn't both up (safe mode, using the bootloader?). Lastly is there a option in the install process of the...
  9. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    Can I do a clean install of the MacOS without erasing other content on the root drive?
  10. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    The reason ~ I was getting many authorization prompts when trying to move files from external drives to local (not system files) normal files from place to place. When wanting to create a folders. Clean install of OS I need to get my hands on the OS El Captian to build a USB, I do have Serria...
  11. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    Ran into that problem again with El Captain not booting, I tried to run the syntax again but this time it wouldn't run. Attached are a couple photos. One photo is an extension that I believe came up the last time it happen and could be the problem (not sure). The next photo might show why the...
  12. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    It worked! As a newbie running my first Hackintosh I tried to change the permission on my root drive (bad idea). After freezing and a restart my box wouldn’t complete the boot process after that and hung up showing nothing but a black screen with a white apple on it without continuing the boot...
  13. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    Thanks, so I don't need sudo but do I need the first /? /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs /
  14. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    Here's a photo of what's happening and maybe I have it wrong or maybe you can look at the attached photo and give me more feedback. Again thanks ...a
  15. aVancouver

    El Captain not booting ~

    Thank you for your help... I tried this but it didn't seem to work: after I put: localhost:/ root# sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs / I got: sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found. quitting
Back
Top