WantsToMac Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Hi! I'm trying to decide if I should go through with attempting to set up my new laptop to dual boot windows 7 and snow leopard (or any other Mac OS that others would recommend). However, it's a relatively new laptop and there isn't much existing information about doing this with my system for me to work with. I was hoping someone could take a look at the hardware specs and tell me if anything stands out as an obvious problem. The laptop is HP DM4-2165dx and the specs are: Processor Brand Intel® Processor Intel® 2nd Generation Core™ i3 Processor Speed 2.2GHz System Memory (RAM) 6GB Type of Memory (RAM) DDR3 SDRAM Computer Hard Drive Size 640GB Optical Drive DVD±RW/CD-RW Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 3000 Networking Built-in 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Wireless Networking Wireless-B+G+N USB 2.0 Ports 3 Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium System Version 64-bit Graphics Chip Intel Drive Capacity 640GB Graphics Card Intel® HD Graphics 3000 Thanks in advance for any advice at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clroxas Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Hi! I'm trying to decide if I should go through with attempting to set up my new laptop to dual boot windows 7 and snow leopard (or any other Mac OS that others would recommend). However, it's a relatively new laptop and there isn't much existing information about doing this with my system for me to work with. I was hoping someone could take a look at the hardware specs and tell me if anything stands out as an obvious problem. The laptop is HP DM4-2165dx and the specs are: _____________________________________________________________________________________ I installed Mac OS in my DM4-2070us, almost exactly the same as yours except for the CPU. I triple boot Win 7, Lion and Ubuntu 11.10. I use a USB flash drive with Chimera boot loader to make this possible. Before anything, create a backup and recovery disk. I had to use it four times during my experiment. HP uses all 4 primary partitions (maximum for MBR). I deleted HP_RECOVERY and shrank the C: drive and partition it as a Logical or Extended drive so I can create two more Logical drives. Bear in mind that if you delete HP_RECOVERY, you won't be able to do F11 to recovery your system internally. You can use F11 with your external backup. I used an external USB HD as backup. It took up like 68GB if I remember right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WantsToMac Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hey! I'm back. After getting cold feet before, I recently had a hard drive crash on the system described in the first post, and it seems like a perfect time to give this a shot with minimal risk of losing anything/I need to spend time re-installing everything anyway. So I set myself up with a new 1 TB HD, and set aside 100 GB in a partician for Snow Leopard. I have my Windows boot disc ready, Snow Leopard purchased from Apple, and an image of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] burned to DVD. I boot from the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc, remove it and replace with the SL disc, refresh, and go to load it up. I immediately get a pop up message with the apple logo on it saying I need to reboot the computer, and I can't do anything else. When I reboot, it loads straight to windows. Has anybody seen something similar to this happen? I've read you need to change your bios settings from SATA to AHCI, but I couldn't find an option to do so. Could this the problem? Seems like that would mean it's not possible, since I've also read that some HP computers can't do AHCI. Any tips are much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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