jesumaria Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 My setup is on a PC. So, can I do this...?: I have two hard drives. My main hard drive is the one with windows, the other one, the secondary hard drive, is just used for storage. Would not this be possible, practically?: Keep Windows installed on my primary drive, not modifying that drive in any way. Transfer all files on secondary hard drive to primary hard drive, clearing the secondary out completely Once the secondary hard drive is blank, load Leopard or Tiger onto that hard drive, seeing as how the PC in question is an intel with compatible hardware [as far as I know] Is there something wrong with this assumption? I know some about computers etc but I have no real knowledge on this matter; i'm a real newbie. But, could this work? Or, would there be some conflict? Would, perhaps, I have to unplug the other OS's hard drive each time I use Windows or Leopard (i.e. when using C drive [with windows] would I have to unplug D for some reason [which contains Leopard])? Thanks for all the help! P.S. and as kind of a secondary question, I've been browsing these forums for information on getting Tiger on my PC [since every guide I've found which relates to putting Leopard on PCs seems to assume that the target PC already has Tiger installed], and I've been having some difficulty locating the proper method for installing Tiger on my system. Does one simply use the same installation methods as when installing Leopard, according to the various guides found on these forums? Or is installing Tiger different. Yeah, I know, "search function is there for a reason," but, could anyone dole out some quick help? Much appreciated Thanks to whomever might be able to provide some further clarity. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Sure, you can have exactly that, I have Mac OS X on another drive alone and works perfectly in one of my rigs. You don't need to unplug the drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/#findComment-486984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesumaria Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 what a nice finish! so, does this effectively mean that it's almost impossible for me to mess up my current computer setup [seeing as how everything is on the main drive]? Since I would not be tampering with the same hard drive which houses windows, this kinda makes me invincible, right? I mean, if I mess up too bad, I can just reformat the secondary hard drive and start over. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/#findComment-486991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 The only thing that you can erase your previous data is using "Partition" on Disk Utility with the Wrong Drive, is better to use "Erase" to create Disk Space for Mac OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/#findComment-487038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesumaria Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 in using my second hard drive for OS X, do I even need to partition? Can I just install OSX on my second hard drive without partitioning? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/#findComment-487042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 It all depends on what you want to use your OSX drive for. My suggestion would be to leave your first drive intact with all your windows data and stuff on that drive. Then partition your second drive, the first partition being for OSX (HFS+ format) and the second partition as DOS FAT32. That way you can play around with OSX all you want, download files (smaller than 4gb each due to FAT32 limitations) or create data in OSX and send it to the FAT32 partition. That way, there's no reading/writing back and forth between OSX and Windows. When you boot into Windows, the OSX partition won't show, but your FAT32 partition will and you can read/write the data on that disk with no worries. You can also download or create data to that disk in Windows and when you boot back into OSX it's there for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68477-confusions-with-os-x-on-pc/#findComment-487272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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