Dual booting hackintosh and Win7 on ASUS A42JR

[mthiessenrox]

Hey guys, I am new here. I am currently running on an ASUS A42JR. According to CPU-Z I am running on

Chipset: Intel, Havendale/Clarkdale Host Bridge, Rev:12

Southbridge: Intel HM55

BIOS: American Megatrends Version 402

Processor: Core i5-430M

Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470

HDD: 1 HDD, 2 partitions

 

I am using Win7 at the moment (came preinstalled with laptop) and am thinking of using OSX (at the same time) for some of my tasks (full explanation in last paragraph since not directly relevant to this forum). I have done much reading and seen so many different methods; [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method seems to be easiest. These are my questions:

 

1. I also read that ATI mobility cards are not supported.I would like to know if that means I still can use OSX but in low res? Or would the display not work at all?

2.Would I need to clean out my whole harddisk and reinstall windows and mac on dualboot config? I would prefer to keep my current Win7 installation (If I reformat my harddisk, then my current windows 7 license is gone, isn't it?), and just reformat my other partition and install OSX on it.

3.In a worse case scenario, is there any possibility that my current windows7 installation gets affected and unable to boot up anymore? Need to know this because at this point of time it's kinda important for me to be able to use my laptop regularly. (note: I do not have a windows7 dvd as ASUS does not provide that along with purchase)

4.I would like your advise on which hackintosh method is ideal given the points mentioned above.

 

Just in case you'd like to know,

Main reason for switching to OSX:

I am a musician who performs with VST plugins live on a DAW (Ableton Live); I frequently have issues with my USB MIDI keyboard and USB external audio interface, sometimes the devices turn unresponsive at random periods. Through tests I have ascertained that it is definitely NOT caused by my usb port nor my midi keyboard. I think switching to OSX would fix that? Because I heard that OSX doesn't use drivers or something along those lines; also many musicians out there use Macs.