Setting up a Hackintosh

dazftw

I'm in the process of setting up a hackintosh. I'm not looking for advice on how to do that.

I have several HDD's and I want to know about what formats I need to use to transfer files around. I plan on dual booting with windows for games.

I have:

1 80GB SSD (OSX w/software and Windows 7)
1 320GB which I'll use for the games on windows
1 2TB I'll use for storage

Do I need to do anything special in order to access the storage HDD from both windows and osx?

muggyog

HFS+ is the way to go.

Nemeses

If you are using the 2tb drive to share between mac and windows, Prob Fat32 or ExFAT would be better as then both operating systems can read or write to it.

Bear in mind of the 4GB file size limit.

ZENER

Stick with NTFS if you plan on using 10.8.3. Mountain Lion has R/W Support for NTFS built in !!

http://prateekvjoshi.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/ntfs-write-support-on-os-x-mountain-lion/

Ken

whiterebel

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

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You might want to remove them after reading the charter........

Bunnyhopper

whiterebel wrote: »

You might want to remove them after reading the charter........

Thanks, but it's beyond 48 hours so I can't edit the post now - and I couldn't have edited your quote of it anyway

I've asked the mods to clear it.

Sad Professor

While I feel that hackintosh discussion isn't in the spirit of the forum, I'm going to leave this thread be for now provided it doesn't involve piracy discussion.

440Hz

I'll bow to SP's decision to keep this one, but I have removed the links. It is against the forum charter and well, thin ice!

Zillah

dazftw wrote: »

I'm in the process of setting up a hackintosh. I'm not looking for advice on how to do that.

I have several HDD's and I want to know about what formats I need to use to transfer files around. I plan on dual booting with windows for games.

I have:

1 80GB SSD (OSX w/software and Windows 7)
1 320GB which I'll use for the games on windows
1 2TB I'll use for storage

Do I need to do anything special in order to access the storage HDD from both windows and osx?

I have the following setup:
1 x 240GB SSD
1 x 2 TB HDD

I split the SSD into two partitions of 120GB each and install OSX on one and Windows on the other. The 2 TB drive serves as a storage drive that is accessed by both OS's. I formatted it in HFS+ and installed MacDrive on Windows. I originally went with ExFat, which was fine for most things, but I had Apple software demanding that its storage drive be formatted HFS+ so I changed it (it might have been Final Cut Pro, I don't remember).

The main difficulty was fixing the bootloader with two OS's on the same drive but you shouldn't have that problem. Both systems should be able to access the storage drive no problem. I even have them using the same Dropbox folder.

It would be a shame to not put games on the SSD though, for the loading times.

EDIT:

Also the reaction to a Hackintosh is really weird on the forum. If we called it a "Custom Mac" or "Home-built Mac" would that trigger less alarms?

Sad Professor

Zillah wrote: »

Also the reaction to a Hackintosh is really weird on the forum. If we called it a "Custom Mac" or "Home-built Mac" would that trigger less alarms?

The name "Hackintosh" has got nothing to do with it. The issue is that it involves hacking/installing Mac OS on a non-Apple computer in violation of Apple's EULA. Which there may or may not be legality issues with. It's not like jailbreaking an iOS device since you don't own software the way you own hardware, just the license to use it. Apple don't sell full versions of OS X like Windows. They sell "upgrades" intended to be used to upgrade the OS that came pre-installed on one of their own computers.

But mostly, as I said, Hackintosh discussion just isn't in the spirit of the forum - which is for the discussion of Apple branded computers rather than simply the Mac operating system. Even in the Apple Media Devices forum, discussion of jailbreaking (which is legal) is restricted to a single thread.

Liameter

Sad Professor wrote: »

Apple don't sell full versions of OS X like Windows.

I bought a family version of Snow Leopard, which I installed on my computer. As it started off with a completely blank, new HDD, I consider the software on the installation DVD to be a full version. Nothing was "updated".

I also bought a full version of Mountain Lion, which wouldn't install on my Mac Mini because the model was "too old". I had to make some kext modifications to get it to install. So does that make my Mac Mini a "Hackintosh"? Clearly Apple didn't want me to use M.L. on that Mac but it runs just fine and I haven't breached the EULA. (I question the morality of a company that deliberately cripples their software in order to persuade me to buy a new computer.)

However, this forum is absolutely within its rights to limit discussions to certain subjects. We can't question that.

As for the legality or otherwise of a "Hackintosh", it has been discussed many times. One of the more interesting answers is here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25376/Ask_OSNews_Hackintosh_Legality

mathepac

Liameter wrote: »

...I also bought a full version of Mountain Lion, which wouldn't install on my Mac Mini because the model was "too old". I had to make some kext modifications to get it to install. ...

So you hacked or modified kernel extensions which means you have breached both the spirit and letter of the EULA, IMHO. Running hacked Apple OS software on Apple hardware = Hackintosh, IMHO but IANAL

Sad Professor

Liameter wrote: »

I bought a family version of Snow Leopard, which I installed on my computer. As it started off with a completely blank, new HDD, I consider the software on the installation DVD to be a full version. Nothing was "updated".

I also bought a full version of Mountain Lion, which wouldn't install on my Mac Mini because the model was "too old".

What I said is still correct. They were upgrade licenses. Even the family pack version of SL said that Leopard was required. The only versions of SL that weren't considered "upgrades" were the ones sold as part of the Mac Box Set and the iWork/iLife Family Pack Box Set, both of which were extremely expensive and aimed at Tiger users.

Whether it is possible to do a clean install using an "upgrade" disc doesn't matter. When installing the OS you agree to the terms of the license agreement. If EULA says that it's an upgrade then that's what it is.

I'm sure lots of Tiger users bought the SL upgrade disc and installed it. I don't think Apple care too much about stuff like this. They are more concerned about protecting their hardware business from the likes of Psystar, which if I'm not mistaken is what actually motivated Apple to offer SL mainly as an upgrade license.