Ztardust Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hey! I have a Macbook Pro dual booting Windows 10 and OSX 10.11.5. It is packed with my programs, plugins, etc, and I have made a full bootable backup of the OSX partition. And I have a new PC with just windows 10 installed. I am wondering if there is an easy way to just take my backup of the OSX partition, and installing a hackintosh bootloader, add a couple of kexts and then clone it to the internal disk of my PC, while making the Windows partition stay intact? Best, Ztardust Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/312617-cloning-a-mac-disk-and-converting-it-to-a-hackintosh-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPCnostalgic Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hi. You can use a clone of your real Mac to boot your Hack (previous bootloader/kexts installing as you said) but believe me, add ANOTHER hard disk to your PC for El Capitan and don't mess around with a working Windows10 HD. 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/312617-cloning-a-mac-disk-and-converting-it-to-a-hackintosh-disk/#findComment-2244316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 (edited) Hey! I have a Macbook Pro dual booting Windows 10 and OSX 10.11.5. It is packed with my programs, plugins, etc, and I have made a full bootable backup of the OSX partition. And I have a new PC with just windows 10 installed. I am wondering if there is an easy way to just take my backup of the OSX partition, and installing a hackintosh bootloader, add a couple of kexts and then clone it to the internal disk of my PC, while making the Windows partition stay intact? Best, Ztardust Used this command ASR Restore Put a SSD on External Hard Drive Enclosure sudo asr restore --source /Volumes/OSXpartition --target /Volumes/Hackintosh --erase --noverify Edited June 18, 2016 by Allan Colors 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/312617-cloning-a-mac-disk-and-converting-it-to-a-hackintosh-disk/#findComment-2244317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztardust Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hi. You can use a clone of your real Mac to boot your Hack (previous bootloader/kexts installing as you said) but believe me, add ANOTHER hard disk to your PC for El Capitan and don't mess around with a working Windows10 HD. Thanks for your reply! I did dual boot OSX and Windows back in 2008, on my old Acer Aspire 5104Wlmi. I remember it was a lot of trouble for me getting it right, but when I finally did, it worked without problems.. But I heard that it was somewhat more problematic now with SSDs..? Have you had problems with it yourself? The PC comes with pre-installed Windows 10, so I would like to resize the Windows partition from 500 gb to only around 100 gb, and use the rest as a Hackintosh partition. I did do something like that in 2008, but I can't remember precisely how I did it. I might add another SSD later, but I just shelled out a lot of money for this PC(the first one in my signature) and a new 4k 28 inch screen, so I'm not going to buy anything more for a while... Used this command ASR Restore Put a SSD on External Hard Drive Enclosure sudo asr restore --source /Volumes/OSXpartition --target /Volumes/Hackintosh --erase --noverify Great tip! I might try this, once I manage to get the partitions spiit correctly(without deleting my already installed Windows 10). I am thinking 100gb for Windows and 400 gb for OSX. Anyhow, thanks for your advice! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/312617-cloning-a-mac-disk-and-converting-it-to-a-hackintosh-disk/#findComment-2244347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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