#Dual boot mac osx windows 10 how to#
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When you get back into Windows 7, I recommend to use this method called вЂњ tbootвЂќ what it does is basically create a new entry of boot option in your Windows Boot Manager, that will then re-direct you to Darwin or Chameleon bootloader in Hackintosh.

Now you probably want to manually recover the Windows Boot Loader.

The easies way is to insert your Windows 7 disk, and repair your Windows 7.

You have two option to fix canвЂ™t boot into Windows 7 issue: ThatвЂ™s because the bootloader youвЂ™ve installed overwrite the Windows 7 Boot Manager. You will soon find out you are not able to boot back into Windows 7 again.

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LetвЂ™s assuming you have it finally working installed and get properly login into Mac OS X. We will skip the long and boring re-trying part.

#Dual boot mac osx windows 10 driver#

Remember what your configuration is and apply the proper driver (kext file) Now its the matter of re-trying over and over again. Now quit the Disk Utility and proceed the installД«e sure to click Customize when you see the Screen Above Once you have successfully loaded into OSX go to Disk Utility you want to reformat the partition youвЂ™ve just created into Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (for detail see here) Some of the parameter you can use are вЂ“v, вЂ“F, вЂ“X, cpus=1 etc

Yours might be different, again its all depend on the hardware.Дuring the initial Disk load press F8 for optional parameter.

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Insert the Mac OS X distribution youвЂ™ve obtained, personally I like to use iATKOS, since thatвЂ™s the one that I got my Acer Aspire 5580 laptop to work. Go to BIOS make sure you are now booting from the DVD first. Once you have done enough research you will feel confident of what you are doing. is an awesome place to go if you have some specific questions regarding your hardware compatibility and installing issue. The bottom line is, you want to check your motherboard (for desktop) or laptop version first. Since every one of you will have a different hardware configuration, it is hard to be general in this case. Yes, you literary need to try out on the different distributions, if you really want to proceed and have a working hackintosh you better start looking at the hardware supportability here. Once you have created a partition itвЂ™s time to try out on installing Mac OS X on your machine. (Xcode in Mac along will take almost 8 GB + spaces, so you want to give it as much spaces as you can) When you create a new partition please give it at least 20 GB or more, if you want to use the hackintosh for any real usage you probably want to add more disk spaces in there.

#Dual boot mac osx windows 10 how to#

If you donвЂ™t know how to do that, check this tutorials first. The first thing you probably want to do is to create a new partition on your hard drive. Lets assume you already have Windows 7 installed. Note: before we start, it is important to backup all your data if necessary, any data lost is your own responsibility.

#Dual boot mac osx windows 10 install#

Better have a different hard drive to install on if not, make sure you have at least 20+ GB free space.

SnowOSX Universal (this is for Snow Leopard).

You know where to download them (prefer get the latest edition for each) If you have AMD please look for the release notes of each distribution. Be careful some of the distribution only support Intel-based PC.

Get as many different Mac OSx86 distribution as possible, you will find them useful during the process of installing.

Have a copy of Windows 7 Install Disk (you will need this to fix the boot issue after youвЂ™ve finished installing hackintosh).

How to find out if your CPU (doesnвЂ™t matter if you are using an Intel or AMD) suppose SSE 2 instruction set? Use CPU-Z to check You need at least a CPU that supports вЂњSSE 2вЂќ instruction set or above instruction set, if not you probably havenвЂ™t updated your PC in the past 5-6 years.So let me share some of my 2-year of experience of building and installing hackintosh (warning: if you are not computer savvy user you may not want to try this :)) I know we are a Windows 7 topic specific blog, but lately there are an increasing interest in people who want to have their PC to run both Windows 7 and Mac OS X simultaneously. This is a complete walkthrough in general on how you can install Mac OS X (Leopard) onto your desktop or laptop along with Windows 7. ***UPDATE (March 28 2011)*** Please check out this updated guide from begin to end on how to build a Hackintosh Dual Boot Windows 7 along with Snow Leopard. If you wish to build a native Hackintosh, the updated guide on installing Snow Leopard is still very relevant. Much easier guide to follow if you wish to just try out the Mac OS X. ***UPDATE (Sept 13 2011)*** There is a new guide for installing Mac OS X Lion in a Virtual Machine.