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I need some advices on how to solve this little enigma. Assuming I have a H55M-UD2H F11, i7 870, HD5770 running Snow Leopard on a single WD 1TB HD. On an external 1TB HD I do frequent backups with TimeMachine. What can I do to restore my SL install if I can't boot my computer from the internal...

Hello guys! I have not been on here so much lately as my Hackintosh has been performing very well. It is in fact performing so well I am wanting to use it as my main desktop. I am entertaining the notion of taking my 1.5 TB internal "Work" storage drive and copying over my data and re-formatting...

Hello, I've using RAID 0 (2 x 3TB disks) since day 1 of my Hackintosh but recently I've been stumbling upon some problems. It started last week when I was having some problems reading stuff from the RAID. Everything was really slow and the spinning wheel of death occurred over and over...

Hello guys! Im running 10.9.2 and want to switch my 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD from NTFS to HSF+, since I read that the reason for OSx to be NTFS read only is that is not natively supported, and risky to dodge this and write on it anyways. Now, my disk has about 400GB used, and about 600 free...

I had a stroke I am very stupid I bought an i7 hackintosh I cannot backup and boot from the backup Is it possible to backup a hackintosh how?

Hey guys... hoping someone here can give me advice on my setup. I'm running Win 7 on a 128gb SSD and have been running 2 x 1TB hard drives in RAID0. Basically I only used my desktop for Windows and keep all files and programs backed up on the 1 TB drive. I installed 10.9.2 on another 128gb...

Hey everybody! I hope you will help me I've had my Hackintosh for over a half year now and it has been working completely perfect for a long time. Suddenly a couple of days ago after i rebooted it did this sort of thing when I just scrolled the side-thingy: (Also I couldn't see embedded...

Hi lads, I have a 10.7.5 Hackie which i use for Audio Production. The motherboard has started to behave weirdly and i have chosen to do a major upgrade, though my only problem is compatibility while i upgrade. I just got hold of a Z87X-OC and an i7 4770k, however my old system as you've...

Is there any way to back up my laptop before I try to put OSX Mavericks on it?

hey everyone i saved files/folders because system won't start. will installing mac os again then dragging over those files/folders from my other drive (basically everything i had in my system) work? Will it create a problem? will having new install then bringing over old files create a...

Hey guys, I'll try to keep this simple. I've got two SSD', one running OSX and the other running Windows 7. I have a 2 TB HDD for storage with two partitions. One is NTFS for my Windows side, and the other is HFS+ for OSX. I'm able to access either partition from both OS' using MacDrive...

I started out with a 10.6.7 Hackintosh and have updated twice, once to 10.6.8 (very painful), then to 10.8.2 (not quite as painful). I'm holding off on a 10.8.3 update because of the reports here. In both cases, I did the update, found that it didn't work, then studied the situation (and the...

Hey! So I am using this guide " http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html " to install Snow Leopard on my desktop PC using the Asus P8 Z77-V LX motherboard, GeForce GTX 670 GPU, 16GB RAM, and i7 3770k i7 CPU. I keep getting stuck before step 8, I get to...

So I found that my hackintosh has a few problems that I think will be solved with a fresh install and reapplying Multibeast/kext etc... and wanted to do a fusion drive as well. But I am worried I will have to reinstall all my applications and settings like my parallels VM which was a pain in...

I'm having troubles carbon copy cloning my drive for backup. When I clone (ccc) it the target drive will not boot. When I reinstall mulitbeast on the target drive it does not boot up (gets stuck on the spinning wheel) I know some parts of mulibeast install on the HD Extra folder, and inject...

Noob Question: my hack is up and running on 10.8.2 but now I want to get back to work. So if restore from my timemachine backup from my iMac (10.8.2) will that disrupt the hacks? Will I need to re do multibeast etc: Just hoping its ok to push the button.

I have my Mac/PC (ML & Win 8) up and running with little issues. I would like to back the harddrive (500 gig SSD Partition with Mountain Lion and Windows 8). Question. Is there a "one-stop-shop" that would backup the harddrive (both partitions)? I know I can use Time Machine for the Mac side...

Just as the title suggests, i want to use Time Machine on a network hdd, a western digital my book. Time machine doesn't recognise this disk. Thanks in advance, Jan

[Solved]Chimera hangs when external backup drive plugged in Hi, as the title says I am having a problem where, if my external drive is plugged in, chimera never gets to the boot selection but hangs at the "\" symbol. I recently partitioned the external drive (which is 2TB) to have a 400GB...

My system is built on a GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 riv 1.3 board using an Intel core I3 3.1 Ghz chip. The graphics card is an EVGA GTX 660-ti. OS X is at the 10.8.1 level. The BIOS is flashed with UEFI U1H. I installed using Unibeast & Multibeast for ML. with no DSDT file. Most things are working...