Installed Intel Optane Driver and it messed my Mac Partition

[ilhammitan]

Hi all!

So I run a Hackintosh with High Sierra in it, my other SSD has Windows 10. On my Windows 10 machine I had accidentally installed the Intel Optane driver or something for my SSDs. Didn't think it'll affect my other SSD with Mac OSX installed. Now I can't seem to boot into my Mac partition with Clover. It just hangs at the Apple logo now and nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. I tried to access the HFS partition from Windows in an attempt to recover my files if I really need to reformat but it seemsI can't. Hmm. Thanks in advance all.

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z270 Gaming 7
CPU: i7-7700K
RAM: 16GB
GPU: GTX1080 Gigabyte

 

[Middleman]

Am afraid the simplest solution to all this is take out your current macOS SSD and stick it in a USB enclosure and try and have it read on another Mac machine. Or check your BIOS and see if AHCI mode has still been enabled (and not Intel RST).

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hi all!

So I run a Hackintosh with High Sierra in it, my other SSD has Windows 10. On my Windows 10 machine I had accidentally installed the Intel Optane driver or something for my SSDs. Didn't think it'll affect my other SSD with Mac OSX installed. Now I can't seem to boot into my Mac partition with Clover. It just hangs at the Apple logo now and nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. I tried to access the HFS partition from Windows in an attempt to recover my files if I really need to reformat but it seemsI can't. Hmm. Thanks in advance all.

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z270 Gaming 7
CPU: i7-7700K
RAM: 16GB
GPU: GTX1080 Gigabyte

Obviously that driver that you have installed has changed something on your MacOS SSD in spite of your assumption that it won't.

I agree with Middleman that what you can do is to take out that SSD and install it in another system to see if you can access it. If it is a SATA SSD you can just connect it to the motherboard or use a USB enclosure as suggested by Middleman. If it is a M.2 SSD maybe you can directly install it onto the motherboard or use a PCIe card that can accommodate a M.2 SSD.

Problems like this are the main reason why I avoid running Windows and MacOS on the same system (or if I have to, make sure to disconnect or deactivate the disks with the other system before I boot one system). If I forget about the precautions and do something I should not do it may easily corrupt the other system.