Comments on: Hackintoshing with Snow Leopard

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Is it possible to install mac after windows has already been installed? I had partitioned a HD in windows where I wished to install Mac, however Mac does not seem to like my partition and prompts me to set up partitioning as explained above.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:44:00 +0000

A note for anyone trying this with the new version of EasyBCD… The options for adding the mac boot entry are now different. You need to select MBR! The default of EFI does NOT work. I had problems but then re-did everything and selected MBR and it works!

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By: WRP

WRP — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:43:00 +0000

Success! Running off Gigabyte X58A UD3R and core i950 3.1 ghz

Here’s what I had to do to get windows installed on a fresh install of 10.6.5 through MultiBeast and Chameleon.

1. Boot directly from Windows 7 CD. Cakewalk not needed to boot.
2. Install latest version of Easy BCD 2.0.2
3. Add Entry. Mac Tab. EFI didn’t work but tried MRB. That did it. And was able to get to a boot screen that I can choose.

The only odd thing is that on my mackintosh Geekbench posts separate numbers though, my Mac
partition performs better overall at 9458 while Windows performs at 8320. Interestingly enough my Mac gets dominated in every category except for Floating Integer. I was hoping that I would get better performance while running Windows, but I’m only half right. Hmmmm

By: MB40tr

MB40tr — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Wow! Awesome! Thank you

By: cory

cory — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:39:38 +0000

If you follow this procedure, which is really good by the way – thanks for the diskpart info- you have to be sure to format the partition to NTFS in step 11. Windows installer can’t proceed until this is done.

By: Cliffe

Cliffe — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:31:46 +0000

hi Bro i cant install windows 7 without changing my Bios Settings from AHCI to SATA/IDE any help please please,

By: WhyNewark

WhyNewark — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:48:18 +0000

Great article, Noah. I built my first Hackintosh this past weekend and will be building another soon. I used a Gigabyte PA-55a-UD3 motherboard and all went well except that it can’t recover from sleep. For the next build, I’m considering using the same board that you used. Now that you’ve had it running for almost a year, how has the stability been and does sleep mode work for you?

Thanks!

By: Markandaiya

Markandaiya — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:29:33 +0000

hi, it was easy to install snow leopard and xp on my machine but easybcd is not working for me don’t know whats its problem…… can u help me out with some other software??

By: beto lopez

beto lopez — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:08:10 +0000

Excellent!

I have installe Snow Leopard and Windows 7, I’m apple developer so I really need mac os.