dualboot

Hello. I have an existing Windows 8 installation but i do not wish to modify it. I am willing to split my main partition so the OS X installation would have 200GB of HDD but the question is.. how do i install SL ( Snow Leopard ) as dual boot in such a way so i wouldn't lose any of my data or...

Sorry if this is in the wrong section or if it has been answered before (couldn't find anything on here about it) I currently have a desktop computer with Windows 7 installed on a SSD, 1TB Storage drive and a 3TB backup drive. I have always been interested in building a hackintosh but don't...

Keeping it simple, I have a mac with Mountain Lion on it. I want to DUAL BOOT on my PC, which already has Windows 7 on it. Is it possible to install mountain lion without wiping the hard drive of the data from Windows 7? Any help would be appreciated. Specs are below: CPU - i7 2600k @4.2ghz...

Hi everybody, I already have a custom built PC that runs windows 7, the windows OS runs off a SSD. Now could I buy a new SSD or HHD, connect it to my PC (running Windows) and install a hackintosh OS on it? Or will I have to wipe my entire hard drive and re install everything? Also if someone...

Hello, I make a dual boot windows 7 / OS X 10.8.4 on the same hard drive (Western Digital caviar blue 7200tr/min 1To). The two systems run perfectly and the bootloader on the USB stick work too. But impossible to use a bootloader on the hard drive. I tried many differents bootloader and...

I built a midrange gaming pc, and I run windows 8 on my primary drive, however I have always wanted to build a hackintosh but, by putting it in a secondary internal hdd to run certain editing applications that I like much better on the OSX platform. I am aware of the general process to making a...

Kingston Technology HyperX Blu 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2) KHX1333C9D3B1K2/8G Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7850 2 GB GDDR5 DVI-I/HDMI/2x...

This is my first hackintosh build and i was going for a dual boot. I have 2 corsair force 120gb SSDs (one for mac os and the other for windows) but when i try to install windows i get "Windows Setup could not configure windows to run on this computer's hardware" :banghead: I have tried...

Hi, I successfully built my hackintosh about a year ago and am now on a new endeavor, I would like to dual boot windows 7 and my current 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Is there a website or web page solely devoted to information on dualbooting? If so, I would like the link. Also, if you have any tips...

Hello, I just finish to install mac os ML on my system (clean HD), in order to do so I needed to change the sata configuration to AHCI mode. I also have a different HD with win 7 on it that was disconnected during the mac installation. now I want both of the system to be enable to boot, how can...

Hi, I would like to install Mac OSX 10.6.8 on a partition of my hard drive that already has windows 7 ultimate installed on the other half. Is this possible to do? Will there be any problems during installation that could mess up my copy of Windows 7?

Hi! This forum is being very helpful so far, thanks for the help! I've been a mac user for many years, but on a laptop mainly. I currently have an XPS 8500 with a nvidia GT640 in my lab running Ubuntu 12.04 that I need to keep for my research, but I would also like to run Mountain Lion on...

I had a working dualboot hackintosh with a i5-2500k and a Gigabyte Motherboard Z68A-D3H-B3. Last night I updated my BIOS to F13 and everything went smoothly. Booted into Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 and everything worked fine. Today I decided to take the next step and pop in my new i7-3770K. I...

I installed Ubuntu on my Hackintosh and accidentally installed GRUB onto the MBR instead of the partition that Ubuntu is installed on. Both ML and Ubuntu are on the same drive, which has a GUID partition scheme. I have a 2nd drive with an ML backup partition. I'm trying to get Chimera back on...

OK SO, my life is trash. Let's start with that. :cry: Anyway :problem: ... I have a Dell 15R Inspiron N5110 with i7 NVIDIA currently running windows 7, and I'm having some trouble.. I'm trying to dual boot windows 7 and some sort of mac OS (preferably lion :thumbup: ). I've tried to do this...

Hello, Looking for some guidance/advice. I have dual SSDs, one with OSX and the other Windows 7. When I boot up, I see three partitions ("Lion", "System Reserved" (or something similar) and "Windows 7". I then select the "System" one to boot to Windows 7. Is there any way I can have just...