I'm extremely confused.

[Sivik]

I've been searching for a while on how to install osx along side vista (vista is preinstalled) and it has a SATA hd. It's one harddrive. how can I dual boot vista and osx?

 

more specs on my laptop are here

http://www.gateway.com/retail/m6817.php

 

Now, if i can't dual boot is it possible install osx on the entire hd? how, this sata stuff has made things confusing. Also would my wireless card work? if not how can i get it to work? It's a Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN

 

Oh, I currently have the uphuck 10.4.9 version.

[~pcwiz]

What do you mean by "Oh, I currently have the uphuck 10.4.9 version"?? Does that mean that you have already installed OS X on you laptop. Need the exact details of how that ins configured. And plus, 10.4.9 is not good. It's new and it hasn't been fine tuned for Hackintosh. I'd advise you to stay with 10.4.8. You laptop is definitely good enough for running OSx86. here is a guide for dual booting 10.4.8 and Vista.

 

Hope this helps

[Bencrutz]

In general:

Grab Partition Magic or similar tool to resize vista partition n then create another partition, but dont format it, or do - whatever.

Install bootloader (Boot Magic, Grub, LILO or else..)

Install OSX - i recommend you 10.4.8

Configure your bootloader (or try using vista bootloader instead of using 3rd party?)

[Sivik]

What do you mean by "Oh, I currently have the uphuck 10.4.9 version"?? Does that mean that you have already installed OS X on you laptop. Need the exact details of how that ins configured. And plus, 10.4.9 is not good. It's new and it hasn't been fine tuned for Hackintosh. I'd advise you to stay with 10.4.8. You laptop is definitely good enough for running OSx86. here is a guide for dual booting 10.4.8 and Vista.

 

Hope this helps

 

ok, sorry. i was just saying that I have that version of uphuck. its not installed, its the one i was trying to use. I'll try 10.4.8. thank you so much are you referring to uphucks or jas's version?

 

 

In general:

Grab Partition Magic or similar tool to resize vista partition n then create another partition, but dont format it, or do - whatever.

Install bootloader (Boot Magic, Grub, LILO or else..)

Install OSX - i recommend you 10.4.8

Configure your bootloader (or try using vista bootloader instead of using 3rd party?)

 

thank you.

 

will 10.4.8 already have support for my wireless?

[~pcwiz]

Get the JaS 10.4.8 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 + PPF2 ISO. Its impossible to tell whether the wireless will be supported in 10.4.8. Your laptop model isn't in the HCL, so no ones tested OSx86 on your laptop before. I think that even if 10.4.8 doesn't support your wireless at first, it will with a new driver.

 

Hope this helps.

[Sivik]

ok, thank you so much for your help. really appreciate it : ) ill report back when i install it and see how things go. wont be soon tho. its going slow.

[Sivik]

Okay, I ran into a bit of a problem. During installation, in the disk utility. on vmware, my hard drive is detected but my partition i have for osx isn't showing up. I tried the not formatting it which was mentioned above, it didn't show up. I tried formatting it to fat but that didnt do anything either.

 

Then I tried just booting the cd (burnt on a dvdr not rw) and in the disk utility my hard drive wasn't even detected. my cd drive was but not the hard drive.

 

These sata drives are new to me. is there anything i can do?

[~pcwiz]

Did you format that partition you created for OS X? Make sure you are giving VMware access to the partition you created for OS X.

[Sivik]

I tried formatting it and not formatting it.

 

how do i give vmware permission? i told it to use the physical disk and its only using the actual whole hard drive. when i do the individual partitions setup in vmware it doesnt show any partitions.

[~pcwiz]

Heres what you do:

• Go to VM >> Settings
  
• Now click the Add button
  
• Choose Hard Disk and click Next
  
• Choose "Use a physical disk (for advanced users)" and click Next
  
• In Device, choose "PhysicalDrive0"
  
• In Usage, choose "Use individual partitions"
  
• Click the checkbox for your OS X partition and click "Next"
  
• Now just keep going till you finish adding the new hard drive (you can't go wrong)
  
• Once the HD is added, in the VM Settings box again, choose your old virtual HD (not the new one you just created) and click Remove
  
• Now, still in the VM Settings box, choose the new HD you just added
  
• Click the Advanced button
  
• For Virtual Device Node, choose "IDE 0:0 Hard Disk (IDE 0:0)"
  
• Click OK, then OK again to close the VM Settings dialog
  
• Now try and install OS X. Should work I think.
  

Post back if you have any more problems

[Sivik]

ok, i was able to get it installed natively but not thru vmware. but my wireless wont work. it installed quick, ran fast. (faster then vista : /) now i just gotta figure out how to get that to work.

[libtech]

Don't mean to hijack this thread. I just actually posted a new thread about this exact problem (128gb harddrive shows up in disk-utility when actually 60gb in real life, also unmounted), but then I dug up this thread. I've tried natively doing it (I've partitioned the 60gb with hfs (id:af) but it couldn't see any of the drives, and in vmware it detects the drive but as 128gb (see image)

 

 

 

Any ideas?