OSX86 on Dell Dimension 8300

[bgrau]

I managed to install 8f1111 on my Dell dimension 8300. I had to copy the disk from a vmware OSX86 already installed partition to a partition on the end of a hard disk.

I made the stupidest mistake of when I was in OSX86 native to change the startup disk to a windows one (never ever do that), as a result it trashed five of my partitions (I have 3 hard disks)... a real bummer ...

from now on, I only will use MACOSX86 on vmware... too risky otherwise, unless one is very careful, which i was obviously not (or has a sse3/sse2 machine to fool with which I dont)

OSX86 is very unforgiving....

I could recover some of my data (using data recovery tool)

For the info, the Maxxuss patch works well, sound, network, etc was there on Dell Dimension 8300 (u can see its specs by going to the Dell website...

Peace out

[richard.xsi]

seems you are in partition table problem (not a real partition overwrite), there are some special

 

software like diskgenius can fix it very quickly.

 

 

anyhow, i don't think the "startup"option can do some harm on the other partition because i use it on my system.

 

(inspiron6000).

[Templeton Peck]

I have a single drive with two partitions - one for Mac and one for Windows. I use the startup disk control panel to boot into Windows, and I boot back into Mac using a batch file I wrote that marks the OS X partition as active and reboots. I put it in the start menu for convenience and so far I've had no problems.