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Hey guys, I'm a noob at hackintosh but very good with windows and hardware in general. I'm interested in having both Windows 7 and Mac OS X sharing the same drive (using a Samsung 840 Evo 250GB SSD). I was wondering if that is possible instead of having to use two different drives? I am...

Hello there! I want to make a dual boot system (Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks and Windows 7 pro) so, I was wondering if you expertise can tell me if my PC needs some hardware change and help me with installing the two OSs on an SSD so that I can choose to boot from one of them. Here are some...

So I have the unibeast usb and windows 7 installation usb. I have one hard drive and I seperated it in 2 pieces. First thing I did is installing OS X and it installs without any problems. Next thing I did is installing Windows. After the windows installed I pluged in the Unibeast usb and from...

Hey everyone, I'm new to the forums! I have a brand new HP Envy 810qe, which is currently running Windows 8. I was planning on wiping the drive and installing Windows 7. If I want to dual boot on the 3tb hard drive, how would I go about doing so? Also, when Yosemite comes out, do I go about...

I'm migrating my Dell Latitude E6510 hard drive to a new SSD, within the same laptop. After adding a mac partition I broke my Windows and Ubuntu and they won't boot any more. I don't know how to fix it. Here's what happened: I had a working Windows and Ubuntu installation that looked like this...

I am running a GTX 760 by EVGA and a core i7-4770k CPU and I noted today that there is a fascinating difference between Cinebench scores of Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.9.5. Comparatively there is a 43FPS loss in rendering ability in 10.9.5. Plain and simple here are my scores: w/ NVIDIA Web...

Mavericks doesn't boot without USB drive First of all: I am really sorry if this is the wrong thread for my problem and it would be great if some Admin move this to the right one. So i will now explain my situation to you, get ready. I have a usual desktop gaming pc (Intel Core I5 3,5Ghz...

Hi, after I got Mavericks installed on my SSD and installed Chimera via Multibeast I tried to start without the Unibeast Stick. But instead of the Chimera Boot Loader comes up Windows 7 boots directly. I have no chance to choose the OS. Both Windows 7 and Mavericks are on one SSD. The SSD is...

Everything works on my computer. I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Windows 7 installed on the same hard drive. Is there a simple and not-causing-new-problems way to change the operating system that is selected in Chameleon by default? Right now if I turn my computer on and do nothing, it will...

Hi everyone, I can't say enough nice things about this community and I am hoping it can help me once again. I have installed Mavericks 10.9.3 on my hackintosh and everything seems to be working. I am a newb and my understanding is that my OSX is in UEFI, but apparently windows 7 won't work in...

Hello there TonyMacx86 Forums! My name is Nic and I am new to the forums. I am currently trying to get my HP Envy DV7 Laptop to dual boot Mac OS X Mavericks along side Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Specs: - Intel i7 quad core processor - NVIDIA GT 630m - 1tb hard drive - On board intel graphics...

I set up a dual boot on my computer with OSX leopard (10.6.8) and Windows 7 Ultimate. Everything works great, but the quality on my second monitor is horrible in Windows 7, everything is really jagged and blurry. I have a Sharp HDTV...

Ok so this my very first attempt at any of this stuff, have been into PC building etc for a while but nothing with Macs. My wife just bought a macbook air and I thought it would sweet if I could dual-boot my pc and add the same Mac OS. I would eventually like to have both computers upgraded to...

I recently added Windows7 to my Hackintosh. Maverick had been running great and finally purchased Win to install. After installing Win7, it was working great. Only problem was I under estimated amount of drive space I would need. After buying a new 1 Tb drive I reinstalled Win 7 on that. Again...

Hi, my name is Santiago, and last night I installed Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks edition. I´m having some issues when trying to create a bootcamp partition to install Windows 7 as a 2nd bootable OS. Here you have some specs. about my hard drives: HDD 1 Partition A: Mac OS X (bootable) HDD 2...

Hello, I build my first hackintosh yesterday, I follow all the steps recomended here and found help on threads and somehow I installed mavericks. at first I had to press -v to login but after trying diffrent settings at multibeast I got it working right. Then I installed windows 7 on a second...

Hi, I want to dual boot my Dell Inspiron 530 that has 2 hard drives one of them blank and one with an exsisting copy of windows 7 WHICH I DO NOT WANT TO DELETE. I ask this question first of all becuase my hdd isn't set to AHCI and second of all windows uses MBR while os x uses GPT and AHCI. I...

Okay so here's my current setup: Currently, I have a grub2 installation on hd0 which can boot Windows 7 and the hd0/3 Ubuntu partition perfectly. It can launch the hd1/3 partition but the graphics get all messed up and I can only start up Mavericks with the UniBeast USB drive (and dart=0 boot...

I recently installed windows 7 on the same hard drive as my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 OS and followed the guide to make Snow Leopard load first by default. However, when I interrupt the loading and select Windows 7 I get the following error: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software...

I tried to install Windows 7 today so I could dual boot it alongside my existing Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I installed windows but am now having trouble booting back into my mac. I don't really understand how boot loaders work... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks