How to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PCLAST UPDATED January 3, 2. If youre interested in turning your PC into a Hackintosh, but you have no idea where to start, this is the right guide for you. Though installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC is a rather simple process in theory, it can be a lot more difficult in practice. Tonymacx. 86s i. BootMultibeast install guide is a good start, but its very basic. This guide on installing Snow Leopard attempts to explain every part of the Hackintoshing process, from start to finish with pictures, courtesy of Virtualbox. Requirements A compatible computer Not every computer will work with Mac OS X, even with the help of tools like i. Boot and Multibeast. Be sure to read the Hackintosh compatibility guide very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies. An empty hard drive You cannot install Mac OS X on a hard drive that already has Windows installed. You need a hard drive without anything important on it, because you will be erasing the entire hard drive. You can override this requirement by using nawcoms Mod. Install Run Mac OS X 10. Snow Leopard in a Virtual Machine on top of OS X Lion. Attachments/kcs-36976/1.png' alt='Install Mac Os 9 On Parallels Mac' title='Install Mac Os 9 On Parallels Mac' />CD instead of i. Boot, but I cant guarantee itll work. Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation DVD 2. The method used by this guide requires the retail DVD for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Boot Free i. Boot is a boot CD that allows you to boot the retail Snow Leopard DVD. Microsoft Visio 2010 Download With Crack. Attachments/kcs-3982/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-10%20at%2012.05.46.png' alt='Install Mac Os 9 On Parallels Mac' title='Install Mac Os 9 On Parallels Mac' />To burn i. Boot onto a CD, you need an empty CD and a CDDVDBluray drive that can burn CDs just about every drive can burn CDs nowadays. If your computer has a CPU that isnt officially supported by Mac OS X, such as an Intel Pentium processor or an AMD processor, then you may have to use i. Boot Legacy which works the exact same way as normal i. Boot.  You also need to register an account on tonymacx. Boot. If your computer uses a newer Intel Ivy Bridge processor, follow our guide for installing Snow Leopard on Ivy Bridge instead. Ivy Bridge processors have model numbers in the 3. Intel Core i. 5 3. Mac OS X 1. 0. 6. Combo Update Free 5. MB Optional you can update Mac OS X after you finish the initial installation with i. Boot. Your Hackintosh probably wont have internet after your initial installation, so you probably want to download this update onto the extra USB drive. Multibeast Snow Leopard Edition Free 2. MB Multibeast is a collection of kext files that your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation. Download it onto a USB drive, along with the combo update. You need to register an account on tonymacx. Multibeast. Be sure to download the Snow Leopard edition, not the Lion edition. Want Windows 8 running on your Mac, but dont know where to start Let us show you how. Download, Install, or Update the best Mac apps MacUpdate. Parallels Desktop v11 Build 31193 Business Edition virtualization software to run Windows on Mac computer virtually without need to buy a new laptop. Parallels. Of all the ways to run Windows on a Mac, Parallels Desktop is my favorite because it just works. Its fast, its reliable, and theres no need to futz about with. How to Install Dual Boot Mac OS X 10. Lion and 10. 6 Snow Leopard. Need a copy of System 6. Classic Mac OS for your vintage Mac You can dig through apple. Settings up the parts of your computer. Open up your computer, and make sure that the SATA cables for your hard drive and your DVDBluray drive are plugged into the 3. GBs SATA ports on your motherboard, not the 6. GBs SATA ports these should be labeled on the motherboard. On Gigabyte motherboards, the 3. GBs ports are blue while the 6 GBs ports are white. The 6 GBs SATA ports simply dont work well with OS X. NOTE If your computer is more than 2 years old, it probably wont have any 6. GBs SATA ports. In addition, be sure to take the following precautions. Unplug all USB connected devices from your computer before you begin the setup except your keyboard and mouse. A faulty external USB hard drive can cause your Hackintosh bootloader to give you EBIOS errors on startup. Open up your computer and unplug any extra internal hard drives that your computer has, besides the hard drive that youre installing OS X on. Just unplug the hard drive SATA cables from your motherboard. If possible, connect your monitor to the DVI port of your computers graphics. The Mac OS X installer sometimes has problems with HDMI and VGA. NOTE If you already have Windows installed on another internal hard drive in your computer, you may have to enable AHCI for Windows before installing Mac OS X. Otherwise, Windows wont boot afterwards. Also, after installing Mac OS X, you should also sync your clock on Windows with Mac OS X. Setting up your motherboards BIOSThe BIOS is basically a settings page for your motherboard. To enter the BIOS on my own computers Gigabyte P6. A D3 B3 motherboard, I have to press the delete key when it boots before the operating system starts. Different manufacturers set different keys for opening the BIOS. There are really only three things that you have to change in the BIOS. However, installing OSX is incredibly prone to error, so its best just to reset all of your BIOS settings to their factory defaults before doing anything. On Gigabyte motherboards, you can reset your BIOS settings to their default by selecting Load Optimized Defaults on the main page of the BIOS. Once your BIOS is running on its defaults, you need to change these three settings Boot Device  Change the boot device of your computer so that CDROM is first. You need to do this for i. Boot to work. After you finish installing Mac OS X, you should change this setting back to default, so that Hard Disk is the first boot device this optional, but it will speed up your boot times. HPET Change this to 6. SATA Control Mode your BIOS might call this a different name This will probably already be set to SATA, IDE, or RAID. Change it to AHCI. Mac OS X only works with AHCI. Keep in mind that the BIOS on most motherboards do not support using a mouse, so youll probably have to navigate through the BIOS with the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press Enter to change a selected option in the BIOS. On my Gigabyte motherboard, I have to press F1. Using i. Boot to run your Snow Leopard Installation DVD. You will need to burn i. Boot onto a CD. On Windows 7 and Mac OS X, burning capabilities are built in to the operating system just insert an empty CD into your DVDBluray drive, right click on the i. Boot file, and burn it. If youre using Windows XP or Vista, you will need to use a program such as Img. Burn. Its time to begin. Turn off your soon to be Hackintosh. Insert i. Boot into the DVDBluray drive, and boot the computer. You should come up to a screen with the tonymacx. Dont do anything yet. Take out the i. Boot CD from your DVDBluray drive the i. Boot menu will remain on the screen, and put in your OS X installation disk. Then press F5 to refresh the i. Boot menu, so that it can detect the new installation disk. Once i. Boot detects the disk, press the enterreturn key on your keyboard to start up the OS X installation. This could take a while. In the worst case scenarios, instead of loading the Mac OS X installer, you may end up at a dark gray screen that tells you to restart your computer a kernel panic, or you may end up with a small crossed out sign a loading error. If you get a kernel panicloading error or if the Mac OS X installer simply wont start within 3. To enter boot flags, first put i. Boot back into your BlurayDVD drive and manually restart your computer by pressing your computers power button. Then, once youre reinserted the Snow Leopard install DVD and pressed F5 to refresh the i. Boot menu, try typing any necessary boot flags before pressing the enterreturn key. Check out this list of common boot flags for reference PCIRoot. UID1 v x is one popular combination of boot flags. Installing OSXNormally, the installation screen will be loaded within a few minutes 5 1. You will eventually come up to a page that asks you for a destination for your Mac install. Oh no, the page is blankWell have to fix that. To do this, start up Disk Utility located under the Utilities menu in the top bar. You need to use Disk Utility to erase your hard drive so that OS X can install itself on it. In the sidebar of Disk Utility, choose your computers hard drive and erase it by using the Erase tab the Format should be set to Mac OS Extended Journaled.