hard drive

I built my own, very high end gaming computer. I also have a macbook pro. I have been learning a lot of objective C and want to install Mavericks unto my 2 TB hard drive. So, I first partitioned my 2TB hard drive with 400GB allocated for Mavericks and my coding endeavors. I get to the...

All of the newer macs feature pcie express hard drives which is supposed to significantly increase memory speeds compared to sata. However I can't seem to find any pcie hard drive information in any of the hackintosh builds. Does anyone know why this is? Thanks!

Hello community. I am starting work on my first Hackintosh build. Before I begin, I was wondering if extra hard drives had to be installed before the installation of OSX is complete or if I could add another hard drive say a couple months down the line after the build is up and running??

Hi there, I'm running a system with 4 drives, 1 SSD for Mac, an old HDD for Win 7, one 3 TB HDD for my data and one 3 TB HDD for Time Machine. This setup has been working solid for over a year now, I started with ML and I'm now running Mavericks happily. This morning however, I couldn't get...

I am getting an SSD for my windows installation and a HDD for my extra files. I understand that installing OS X and Windows on the same hard drive is much harder than installing them on separate hard drives. I would prefer to not have to buy a 3rd hard drive. Would it be fairly easy to install...

Hi guys, so i'm installing Mavericks on my PC. When I get to step 4. (Install OSX Mavericks) and get to the part where I use disc utility to format a drive for MAC the only drive I see available is the USB I have UNIbeast on. On the Chimera boot screen I can see all 3 hard drives I have...

So I tried to install mavericks on a partition on my 240gb SSD but I coudn't because I'd need to format the whole SSD... (I have windows 8 installed on it) That's why I've ordered a 1TB WD Blue! Is it possible to have two partitions, one for the mac os, and the other for storage that I can...

Hey guys! I tried installing Mavericks on my rig, but I got stuck. When I try to install, the installer says that Mavericks can't be installed on my partition because it's not GUID. It's weird because I had Mountain Lion installed on it. It's ok, right? I can just re-partiton my hard drive...

Hi all I was just wondering if there's a certain hard drive I need to do this. I want to get a new hard drive to swap out my hard drive that I'm using right now for more space and I would also like the hard drive to be able to handle using parallels or vm ware. I have a HP ProBook 4530s running...

Im beginning my build now, which uses the dual thunderbolt gigabyte board. But, choosing a SSD is proving more difficult than I think it should be... Basically I want to run my program files and OS on the SSD, and put all unnecessary files (music etc.) on an HDD. Setup would probably be...

I just installed Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and my hard drives are running slowly. My hard drives all have a negotiated link speed of 1.5 Gb/s when they are capable of 3 Gb/s. My motherboard is an Asus P8Z77-V Pro, and I've tried connecting all of my drives to both SATA 2 and SATA 3 ports on the...

Hey I have a problem with my installation of OSX on my computer. I finally got my memory stick set up to the point where I can start installing, but my hard drive is not detected by the system. When I open disk utility all that shows up is the Flash Drive I'm booting from I have also tried...

I've recently completed my semi-successful copy build of bitdoctor's MiniMacPro Build. intel Core i7-3770 Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI HD 4000 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LP Seagate Momentus 7200-RPM 750 GB - ST9750420AS hard drive The only known difference between bitdoctor's successful build is...

Hello guys, My old 2008 iMac had a problem with the graphics card and stopped working properly (lines across the screen and then only working as external HD) I have just removed the hard drive (1T Hitashi Sata 3.0 Gb/s, 7200RPM, 3.5 inch) and would like to use it to build a CustoMac Budget...

Hello,i created a bootable mountain lion usb with a mac.I also used unibeast for ML. It was stuck on a white screen,so i found here that if i deleted the "ati6000controller.kext" it would solve the problem. So i deleted it.I also deleted the "ati5000controller.kext" cause i have an ati hd5670...

Hi, so I have successfully installed Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on my hackintosh but there is a big problem I have yet to solve, I cannot access or see my solid state drive that I have mountain lion installed on. My computer boots fine and everything else works but I just can't see my ssd in the...

I am currently installing snow leopard onto my desktop and I was able to get to the screen where the osx installer asks what hard drive I would like to use. I was wondering if it was possible to put it onto the partition I already made ony hard drive so I would not have to loose everything. I...

Hi all, when installing ML I used the custom bios from Samisnake and have had no problems. However I have now bought a 3TB drive for storage and didn't realise if I have 1 3TB partition the PC won't boot apparently this is fixed in a later bios update however I need the old one Sami tweaked...

Hello all! I completed my first Hackintosh build about a month ago and I am super happy with it, however... Like most builds, I am still working out a few bugs. The main issue I have is that the USB ports are just unreliable. I can have an external hard drive plugged in to one of them and it...

Hello Everyone, I am planning on installing ML on my HP Probook but want to install the os on an ssd since I read it would be faster. My question is this: Can I put the ssd on the 2nd drive ( I will be swapping the optical), and install OSX on the ssd while using the regular HDD for...