maxell505 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 So I was speaking with another person on the chat and he was helping me out personally and he said that the reason i could not install OSX on the partition that I made was because of my disk being an MBR. He said I will have to change it to GUID. I asked if I could change it to GUID without anything being erased and he started showing me but we encountered an error and he said he would be back in 10 minutes and it has been about 1 hour now. Can someone please help me with this problem. I want to install Mac OSX on the partition I made but I do not want to lose all of the programs and stuff I have installed on my Windows partition. He told me to open cmd on windows and type in diskpart and than in the diskpart cmd window type in "list partition". But when I do that it says that "there is no disk selected to list partitions. Select a disk and try again". Please help me! I want to install Mac OSX but I cannot do so right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Simple. Reinstall OS X in DU select GUID mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Simple. Reinstall OS X in DU select GUID mode. Ok what is DU and how do I start mac osx mavericks with DU? Just letting you know, I have a Niresh bootable USB with me and I have Windows on a separate partititon. Simple. Reinstall OS X in DU select GUID mode. Also I never had OSX installed. I was in the installing process when this occured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 For use OS X and Windows in GUID mode, read this: UEFI multi boot Is necessary erase all HD, and follow this guide above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 For use OS X and Windows in GUID mode, read this: UEFI multi boot Is necessary erase all HD, and follow this guide above. my BIOS does not have UEFI boot though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Use Clover in LegacyMode. Erase your HD, create 2 partitions, choice GUID mode. Install OS X in 1º partition, after this, install Clover, and then install Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Formatting and reinstalling everything is not necessary. There is a way to modify the OS X installer so that it will install on an MBR drive. Google retail OS X on MBR there are plenty of hits to get you going. btw if you have Niresh, it should already be modified to allow for installation on MBR. So... no need to do anything. "DU" is Apple Disk Utility. It's accessible from the Tools menu before starting the installation process. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Clover also works from MBR partitioning HDD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Wait...do you mean that Clover can patch the OS X installer while it's running so that it will install on MBR? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Formatting and reinstalling everything is not necessary. There is a way to modify the OS X installer so that it will install on an MBR drive. Google retail OS X on MBR there are plenty of hits to get you going. btw if you have Niresh, it should already be modified to allow for installation on MBR. So... no need to do anything. "DU" is Apple Disk Utility. It's accessible from the Tools menu before starting the installation process. Wait so why can't I get it to install than. I made the partition correctly but it still will not allow me to erase. I have attached the Partition Wizard window so you can see how I partitioned it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomas Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 hi Wait so why can't I get it to install than. do you already tried this? Google retail OS X on MBR there are plenty of hits to get you going. and besides ... you do not have to delete windows mbr partition, there's a lots of softwares on the web who could convert your mbr partition in guid without loosing data click here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 hi do you already tried this? I decided that I just want to format my whole hard drive and I dont care if I lose Windows. Can you take a look at my new topic: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/296974-how-to-make-hard-drive-to-gpt/?do=findComment&comment=2006366 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hmm, try the "easy" way: How to install Windows on pure GUID Partition Table (pure GPT) "easy" way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Can someone help me with detail in exactly how I have to partition my hard drive in OSX and everything. Because I am not that good at this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 you read what I recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hmm, try the "easy" way: How to install Windows on pure GUID Partition Table (pure GPT) "easy" way Can you help me in detail because I do not understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomas Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 click here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 click here! the best way! Can you help me in detail because I do not understand. dude, read, just read what I told you. it seems that you have read on a second 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomas Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Can someone help me with detail in exactly how I have to partition my hard drive in OSX and everything. Because I am not that good at this stuff. we can understand that you don't have yet abilities to work with os x but do some research with google ... I mean, really? it seems that you have read on a second no, just the first character 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 click here! you read what I recommend? Ok so I have a bootable version of Niresh Mavericks on a USB Drive. So first I have to erase Windows right? So than I go into Disk Utility while on OSX and I click on the partition tab. I click two partitions. Than I click on the first partition and make it a GUID Partition Table. Than I click on the second partition and make it an MBR, right? And than I go and install OSX Mavericks into the first partition(the one that is formatted as GUID) and than once I have done that, can you please help me from than on how to install Windows 8( I have a Windows 8 DVD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 No one is going to answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 we can understand that you don't have yet abilities to work with os x but do some research with google ... I mean, really? no, just the first character ok sorry about starting the other post, its just that no one is answering my question. I just want to know how to apply the MBR patch to the Niresh version of Mavericks. Please show me how to do that. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 btw if you have Niresh, it should already be modified to allow for installation on MBR. So... no need to do anything. This. Niresh has MBR support. The MBR patch is only required for retail installs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxell505 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 This. Niresh has MBR support. The MBR patch is only required for retail installs. Than why is it giving me an error saying: "Error modifying partition map" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 What exactly are you doing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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