Hackintosh, new drive

[TheStu]

Ordered a 1.5TB drive last night meaning one of my 500GB Storage drives gets (de/pro)moted to OS duty.

First of all, I know that I can't just clone it, I need to have PC-EFI (or whatever it is called) installed on the new drive, that's fine.

I am considering putting both Windows 7 and OS X onto the same drive, I will be using the iPC installer to go Vanilla since I got Hack friendly components, and am wondering what all I need to do, and in what order, in order to get both OSes onto the same drive, and in theory make my boot process easier.

So, hit me with what you guys got. I am not afraid of wiping both OSes and starting from scratch since at the end of the day, my laptop really is my primary computer and anything I care about is stored on other drives.

 

[TheStu]

My drive drive just arrived, help!

 

[suklee]

I wish I could help but the other Kai (aka Kaido) is the one you're looking for!

He mentioned he'll be updating his guides very soon, I'm patiently waiting as well

 

[Tyranicus]

There's a reason I keep OS X and Windows on separate drives in my hack. I don't even want to try to mess with bootloaders.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Tyranicus
There's a reason I keep OS X and Windows on separate drives in my hack. I don't even want to try to mess with bootloaders.

lol, bootloaders work great now.

But i do keep my main windows on seperate HD. But other HD has, leox2, ubuntu, windows, though its been unplugged for a few days now. Need to plug her back in lol.

Waiting for some snow leopard news, testing, hacking.

 

[TheStu]

Well, the thing is I have (currently)
500GB: Movie Backups (Full)
500GB: TV Show Backups (50%)
500GB
>>80GB: Windows 7
>>200GB: ISOs and Installers (Full)
>>200GB: Catch All (80%)
160GB: OS X (50%)

I will have (by this time tomorrow maybe)
1500GB: Movies and TV Shows (50%)
500GB: Installers (40%)
500GB: Catch All (35%)
500GB: Windows 7 & OS X

The issue is that no setup is ideal really. If I had more SATA ports, then I could RAID 2 or 3 of the 500s to give me more lumped space, but with the dual OSes, and everything else I am not sure how well that would work. The 160 is older (SATA I) and so I want rid of it anyway but 500GB split between OS X and 7 is just way, way too much space.

No matter what I do I will either have too much space, or not enough in certain areas ultimately, so that is why I at least want to get the 2 OSes onto the same drive.

Is Chameleon on the iPC disk?

 

[ViRGE]

Install Mac OS X after Windows, and then go ahead and install the latest version of Chameleon once you have Mac OS X installed. I'm not sure if iPC has Chameleon, but the Chameleon installer will safely overwrite whatever is there anyhow.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Install Mac OS X after Windows, and then go ahead and install the latest version of Chameleon once you have Mac OS X installed. I'm not sure if iPC has Chameleon, but the Chameleon installer will safely overwrite whatever is there anyhow.

Alright, i will give that a whirl then, thanks.

 

[vailr]

No guarantees, but here's what I'd suggest:
Format the HD using the OSX Disk Utility (from a bootable OSX DVD "distro"; I recommend "iDeneb 10.5.8"):
1st partition HFS+ with GUID (OSX)
2nd partition FAT32 (Windows)
3rd partition FAT32 (data storage)
Install Chameleon 2.x onto the OSX partition.
Boot from the DVD & install Windows onto the FAT32 (2nd) partition, but re-formatted as NTFS.
Boot from the OSX DVD & install OSX to the HFS+ (1st) partition.
Chameleon should then provide a boot option screen to select which OS to boot.
Other posters have reported drive corruption of the NTFS drive, when installing Snow Leopard (if a Windows NTFS formatted partition is present during the installation).
So: I'd suggest staying away from Snow Leopard, until sometime later.
Note: the "boot 132" + "retail 10.5.x Leopard DVD" install method should also work, if preferred.
But does not yet work for Snow Leopard.

 

[TheStu]

Well, I will give those options a whirl, I meant to play with it last night, but I got distracted by anno 1404