glassJAw Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I installed OSX86 10.4.8 on a IDE to USB hard drive a while ago on my laptop. It installed right but it fails to load the O/S because I didn't load it right. Well I finally got a bunch of pieces and put together a PC. I didn't reformat, I just loaded the cd and updated the OS by installing NATIT and everything works fine. I don't know, the O/S seems to work fine but I only have 512 megs of ram so it seems a bit slow. Do you think I should start from scratch or is OSX86 very good at handling hardware change? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41777-would-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reformat/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragossh Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 (edited) I think OS X is loading the hardware drivers on the fly, so I don't see a reason to reinstall it. The 512 MB RAM problem is odd, I have 512 too and it works just fine (5-6 apps open). Edited February 10, 2007 by dragossh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41777-would-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reformat/#findComment-298972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neonkoala Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 When making the hardware change the only thing I think should be necessary (unless you are going from SSE2 to SSE3 in which case a reinstall is better) is to boot with -f to force a reload of all kexts to the driver cache, this need only be done once. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41777-would-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reformat/#findComment-299022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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