WinterAce Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Hello, First of all, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, do move it to the correct forum if it so. I want to get Mac OS X Snow Leopard working on my Vaio, which is currently running 2 installations of Windows 7. My DVD drive is not in a good condition, so I want to install OS X through a USB. Also, I don't have a USB drive that is above 6 GB. So I want to make a partition on my External HDD, and then put OSX onto it. Strange situation, no? (I'm only 13, so I don't think I can buy myself another USB drive, without some hard work at least). And so, here is my list of questions. 1. Is there any software for the Windows platform that'll allow me to make a HFS+(Mac OS Extended) partition on my HDD? 2. How would I put the Snow Leopard .DMG into my partition? 3. Would I have to install another bootloader, even though the Windows 7 bootloader already shows my 2 installations of 7? Thanks a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
grady.lynch Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 what i would suggest is see if you have a usb DVD drive laying around, maybe a HD drive from your xbox or something. Also, 8GB drives are really cheap on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/8GB-8-GB-USB-2-0-Memor...a#ht_1567wt_911 Hope this helped Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1516393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z0ID Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 1. Is there any software for the Windows platform that'll allow me to make a HFS+(Mac OS Extended) partition on my HDD?2. How would I put the Snow Leopard .DMG into my partition? 3. Would I have to install another bootloader, even though the Windows 7 bootloader already shows my 2 installations of 7? Hi, 1: MacDrive (proprietary) 2: SuperDuper (on a mac) 3: Forget Win7 ;-) But a little hint: The partition Table you use is incompatible (mbr table i guess), OSX needs a patch to be run from a MBR partition. bye Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1516399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterAce Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 Thanks for the replies. I don't have a Mac anywhere near me (not even my friends), so I can work with only Windows. Also all my work can only be done through USB drives. My DVD drive doesn't work well. Strange case, no? So, I need to install Mac through USB (I have the DMG). How would I do this (everything without a Mac, of course)? Or is there any guide that explains how would I do everything through Windows and USBs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1517039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterAce Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 But a little hint: The partition Table you use is incompatible (mbr table i guess), OSX needs a patch to be run from a MBR partition. Well, I have made a HFS+ partition on my external hard disk, and if I extract (using HFS Explorer) the DMG onto it, will it boot? What is the patch for MBR partitions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1518814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 simply that i use in my setup use vmware set up on it any version of mac and do what you want want to set up leopard on your hard disk on pc just add the partion to vmware and go want extrenal usb just add it to vmware mac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1518856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtopman Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Use one of the various GParted LiveCD's to resize one of your partitions to make space for your new one (backup everything first, ntfs is not very good with partitioning). In the free space, add a hfs+ partition. When you go to install OSx86, go to disk utility and select one pass of 0's on the hfs+ partition. Install to the hfs+ partition. As illustrated (kind of) here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1519289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterAce Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 Well, the problem here is that I can't start up the OS X installation. I used HFS Explorer to extract the MacOSX.dmg to my HFS+ formatted and partitoned external hard disk (used GParted for this). During extracting, there were some problems which required the program to auto-rename some folders/files. After extracting, I used MagicISO to create a .iso of the extracted stuff on my ext. hdd. and got a slightly-renamed ISO of OS X. Long story short: I converted the .dmg to .iso in a very complicated manner; so that I can boot the .iso through VMWare. That resulted in some boot.plist error. Anyways, I'm gonna buy a Double Layer DVD on Saturday and get my friend to burn the .dmg through MacDrive. Will that be enough, or will I have to do some more things to make the burnt DVD just like a retail OS X disc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225954-how-would-i-install-snow-leopard-in-my-case/#findComment-1519433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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