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hi, first i installed my yosemite on a 16GB disk on key but then it ran too slow... do partitioning and changing the format(whatever it is- the OS X Journalist) dameging my hard drive? i have a lot of important stuff on him. second question: after i installed my yosemite- how do i run it?? do i...

Hi everyone, I have a problem completing the installation of Yosemite on my HP envy 15. I followed the guideGuide To Install Yosemite on HP Laptops with Clover UEFI and everything is ok, Yosemite installation boots up but when I have to choose the partition of my drive (I have dedicated only...

Hi guys, I'm fairly new at this and i've searched the web for infomation that I need, but somehow I could not find any. I have a 256Gb external SSD and would like to know if it is possible to have 2 partitions on it, each with its different formatting. Basically, what I want to happen is to...

I am attempting to install a dual boot between Mavericks and Windows 8.1 on a single hard drive. I have the partition table set up as GPT/GUID. As a note, my laptop can hold only one hard drive. Also my laptop has a feature to enable or disable UEFI/Legacy (UEFI) vs Legacy support. (UEFI...

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...

Hello everyone. So today I got a copy of Windows 8.1 because I really needed to do something on the opposite operating system. I went and created a separate partition on the boot disk (SanDisk SSD) for Windows and installed it on that. OS X has its own partition. After a successful install, it...

So, I'm installing Mavericks on the Dell Inspiron 15r - 5521 of one of my friends and there's an issue. The installation completed properly though I can't get the bootlaoder to appear. This computer came out of the box with 7 partitions all for one Windows 8. Some are only 15MBs large. Fact...

I think I might have done something wrong when installing Clover, I can boot OXS from Clover menu, but when I try to boot W8 all I see is a black screen. Plus there is something wrong, the Data disk should not have an EFI partition, I really can't understand how that happen. :shifty: My guess...

The title pretty much sums up everything I could say down here, but anyways, after installing the /Extra folder to my EFI partition and restarting my computer, I went back and mounted the EFI partition to edit something in the org.Chameleon.boot.plist file but the /Extra folder is missing! Does...

Hey there tonymacx86 forums! After much trial and error I have successfully gotten my laptop to boot into the Maverick 10.9 installation window. I used the 10.9 Maverick file from the appstore, Unibeast to create the USB ( which also has multibeast files on it ). My laptop is a Gateway FX...

Hello, I just finished installing Mavericks on my rig (z77 Mpower board, i5 3570k, PNY GTX 770, 8GB Corsair Ram, 2 harddrives. 1 TB Windows harddrive (1 partition) and 750 GB harddrive with 2 partitions, 1 for OSX 1 for windows files since my 1tb is almost full.) Since I installed OSX I can't...

Hello. I have a hackintosh system with windows installed in one ssd and ML in one hdd. I've partitioned my hdd having 1 hfs partition for ML and another one in NTFS to share data with Windows. But no matter if I use tuxera or paragon ntfs, it doen't work properly. It corrupts data between both...

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...

Hi Thanks for your great efforts. I am facing a weird problem for partitioning my HDD. I had purchased a probook 4740s and hackintoshed it dual boot with Windows. Everything was working perfect. Unfortunately after 2 days HDD got corrupted and I got new one by claiming warranty. The problem is...

Hello, I'm having some issues with seeing my HFS+ partitions with the driver installed, as it's hard to explain everything exactly here's a run down of what happened; I have reinstalled Windows yesterday. Ran in to some trouble installing it and had to set it to hybrid mode (using gdisk, can't...

I want to make dual os (win 7 & mac) .. I have created 4 partitions (when installing Win 7): 1. System 7 (os 7) 2.data1 3. data2 4. mac osx (for mac os) 5. System reserved (automatic when install win 7) then when i want to install mac, mac osx partition had me erase the format mac os...

I followed the guide here http://www.tonymacx86.com/374-unibeast-install-os-x-mavericks-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html and reached the installation screen. But I got a problem with formatting partition to install Maverick. At Step 4-6, the partition tab has been missing. I tried to erase my...

Hi, I've been searching this site for some time now and I'm decided to build a hackintosh following the Mac mini "deluxe" version with some different components: - Cooler Master Elite 130 case (mini itX) - Sapphire radeon R9 270X (I think its compatible :) ) - Intel i5 4570s (same sochet as the...

My HP ProBook 4540s is now known as my HackBook Pro running Mac OS X Mavericks. It's great! I have close to 100% hardware compatibility and I have a Dlink DWA-171 USB AC WIFI Adaptor for Wireless connectivity. I have a generic dual booting question and I apologize if it has been asked...

Hey Guys. Recently read the new "Install Bootloader and Extra to EFI Partition" article published and the idea intrigues me. That said i have a few queries as my system is not as simple as the one use in the example. System as follows: -i5 3570K -Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H -PowerColour...