it_techs Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I have successfully installed Snow leopard on PC. I have 3 more SATA drives, one is a Windows 7 systems and 2 are Media storage systems used only with Windows. These drives were used as IDE (not ACHI) I would like to connect these drives now and I wasn't sure what will happen to them because I don't want to lose any data. I can keep the hackintosh drive as ACHI and the windows drives as IDE. Thanks in advance for your help. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHalligan Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I have my Hackintosh running from an external HDD. I have Windows 7 on an SSD, and a SATA drive for storage which is full of media. When I plug either of the drives in, my Hackintosh just boots to a blank blue screen after the Apple loading screen. When I boot without them it runs perfectly. So to partly answer your question; simply plugging them in wont erase any data, but I'm not sure whether wiping them is necessary to be able to use them. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
it_techs Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 I have my Hackintosh running from an external HDD. I have Windows 7 on an SSD, and a SATA drive for storage which is full of media. When I plug either of the drives in, my Hackintosh just boots to a blank blue screen after the Apple loading screen. When I boot without them it runs perfectly. So to partly answer your question; simply plugging them in wont erase any data, but I'm not sure whether wiping them is necessary to be able to use them. Thanks for the reply When you run Hackintosh system, are the internal drives set for ACHI or IDE? Does it mean you have to unplug all the internal drives everytime you have to use the hackintosh system? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabiuzi Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 You need AHCI to work with MAC. if Windows was installed using IDE and you configure your bios to use ahci, your mac will work, but not windows. Butt! there is a workaround I read somewhere. you can edit the registry of windows 7 to enable it to use AHCI. google it... So or you install both in ahci from the beginning. or you change your windows to use ahci. anyhow you will never loose data on both partitions if somethings goes wrong. the only way to loose it is to erase it or format it. also I am not sure if you just can add sata drives to your system. if I do that I sometimes get problems with the chameleon bootloader, because he things my attached storage is the boot drive. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHalligan Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I got my problem sorted. For some reason my USB WiFi adapter was preventing me from booting up, but only when I had my SATA drives plugged in. I just need to boot without the dongle in, then plug it in once everything is up and running. I have full access to both my SATA drives, all the data is intact. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabiuzi Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I had just the same issue, but forget to mention this here... I had an USB stick that prevented mac os x to boot!! Also something else very weird: if I connect a USB keyboard everythings works fine, but when I wanted to install SL with a PS/2 keyboard it was hanging at "still waiting for root device..." Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 You need AHCI to work with MAC. That's not true, if your SATA controller can't be set to AHCI mode you just need different drivers. Other things wrong with this thread: SATA is IDE too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#IDE_and_ATA-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA You mean Parallel ATA or PATA. MAC (all caps) is an abbreviation of Media Access Control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address Mac is shorthand for "Macintosh", which is a hardware platform, the operating system is called OS X, you are not "running MAC" or "installing MAC". You're running or installing OS X or Mac OS X. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabiuzi Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 That's not true, if your SATA controller can't be set to AHCI mode you just need different drivers. Hi, that is weird to me. Do you know a distro that has IDE drivers for SL? I tried many, and they all worked with AHCI and non of them with IDE.... Thanks for the feedback Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
it_techs Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 I got my problem sorted. For some reason my USB WiFi adapter was preventing me from booting up, but only when I had my SATA drives plugged in. I just need to boot without the dongle in, then plug it in once everything is up and running. I have full access to both my SATA drives, all the data is intact. The Sata drives, were they formatted in Windows initially as NTFS? were they set up as IDE or ACHI when you were running Windows? Are they ACHI or IDE in Mac? I have 2 controllers so I can set the Mac OS drive as ACHI and the 2 SATA media drives as IDE. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/251374-what-happens-if-i-connect-my-ntfs-sata-storage-drive-to-hackintosh/#findComment-1654666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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