I am confused when I read your post.
Can you clarify for me the following:
1.What is the difference between what you are accomplishing from step 1 through 6 with an internal SATA HDD taken out of the case disconnecting its SATA & Power cables and connecting it to a Hackintosh Computer's ( "other Mac's) USB port through a SATA USB Interface (adapter) with possibly external power cable (you have not mentioned that) and using the disk utility of that hackintosh and Partitioning in GUID Partition Map scheme and formatting in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and on 8-10GB partition so created, running Unibeast and installing Sierra from that Hackintosh's Applications folder and then copying Multibeast
vs
Tonymac Sierra Guide using an 8-16 GB USB Flash drive in USB 2.0 port and following the guide to create the Sierra Installation disk?
2. In step 7, where is this 8-10 GB partitioned SATA HDD connected and how is it connected?
- Are we to assume that you have removed it from the USB port of the "other Mac" and then placed it inside the "problem computer" from which it was removed to make it an "Installer partition" of a SATA HDD?
- When and how will this SATA installer partition finally become a fully functional System disk where you can install other software , create files etc? . It has only 8-10GB size now.
- Did you use this device to install Sierra from this device to another SATA HDD inside the Computer?
I am very much interested to know more about it.
Hi CMN,
first of all, I would like to let you know that English is not my first language, I will do my best to clarify your doubts.
This method requires just a HD, instead of an USB pendrive. I tried several times use the USB method without success, with a lot of different problems after USB creation and install.
So, the ideia is with one HD, make a little partition on it, and install in this partition the installation files. The rest of the same HD will be used to install Mac OSX. With this method I escaped from all the problems I faced.
I connected my HD to my MacMini using a SATA adapter from an external drive (photo) but if you have an external Sata enclousure, or other Hackintosh you can do it too, the ideia is connect the HD to a Mac to do 2 things, first format and create partitions, and second, using Unibeast install the files in the 10GB partition.
As soon as you do this you will be able to reconnect the HD on the machine that you are trying to install, and in the Bios set this HD as your primary Boot device, more specifically, set the partition of 10GB of the HD as your boot device, the BIOS must be set to UEFI mode, I'm not shure but I think it is the default. You will see in the Bios this partition.
That's the ideia, using just one HD, make a 10GB partition on it, install the files with Unibeast on this little partition and use the rest of the HD for running Mac. Any doubt I will be here ok, Best, Edu.