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Dual-Boot with Mac OS X

‎02-01-2012 01:44 PM

HP Pavillion Elite e9120y

Windows Vista Home Premium

 

This is my desktop. I've added a second harddrive and everything works fine. However, I wanted to know if anyone knows how to Dual-Boot it with Mac OS X. I'm taking computer courses at school that rely on macs and as such are useless to me without one. I'd like to install it to my newly added harddrive (1TB/931GB).

 

Full specs of the computer found here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01738802&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3970023#N64...

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Re: Dual-Boot with Mac OS X

‎02-01-2012 08:29 PM

A Mac operating system can only be installed on an Apple computer.  You'll need to purchase an Apple computer.

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Re: Dual-Boot with Mac OS X

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‎02-01-2012 08:36 PM - edited ‎02-02-2012 06:44 PM

Mac OS X is the native OS on a Mac computer using special Intel CPUs, hard drive with GPTs, and EFI/UEFI type BIOS. OS X is not designed to be installed on anything but compatible Mac hardware. It will take a great bit of effort to install OS X on your computer. It will require much research and downloading/installing many "kexts" to overcome the limits of OS X. Even after working on installing OS X for a long time, you may never get everything on your computer working correctly.

 

Good luck.

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