[SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 7 and Mavericks on Hackintosh

[Robert Gravett]

Hello guys. Firstly, if a mod or any other member has seen a forum post from the past that will answer my questions, please by all means direct me to it, and I will mark this thread as answered. Anyway, to my question:

I currently have a PC (duh) that I have used for a long time. However, I also have a macbook Pro currently running Mavericks. The problem is, my Mac is not fast enough for my liking, and i refuse to spend money on it (I needed it for school, nothing more). I am hoping to move my school work to my main machine, without losing my PC's primary function as a gaming machine.

This is the build and current configuration:
CPU: i5 3570K OC'd @4.4GHz
Cooler: Corsair H80 AIO
RAM: G.Skill 16GB DDR3 kit (4x4)
Motherboard: ASUS P8 Z77-V LX ATX
GPU: EVGA GTX 780 Ti ACX Classified Edition
Storage devices:
Samsung 840 250GB SSD (Currently has Windows 7 x64 Home Premium installed)
Samsung 840 120GB SSD (Empty, and the drive I am hoping to install Mavericks on)
Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM Storage Drive (NTFS)
WD Black 3.5" 3TB 7200RPM Storage Drive (NTFS)
Connected Monitors: Twin Acer 23" 1080P, both connected through DVI, 23.6" TV connected through HDMI (No audio required)

So here's the goal: Windows 7 on the 250GB drive, OSX on the 120GB drive and the ability to dual boot. I want to be able to at least use two monitors in OSX. I also do not want to lose the overclock on my CPU, at least in the windows side. Also, access to the storage drives from OSX is not required.

If you need any more information please ask, and thanks a bunch in advance for any and all help.

 

[bazpaul]

Hello!

Yes I would reccomend installing OSX on your second drive. Nearly everything about a hackintosh comes down to your motherboard. If you google your motherboard and the word 'hackintosh' you can probably find some resources. I found this post will probably help you alot - http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/112741-installing-mavericks-asus-p8z77-v-lx.html

Dual booting can be tricky to set up. You'll need a bootloader installed on the OSX drive. Then you need to set that drive to boot first in your BIOS. What happens then is that you see a bootloader screen asking you to select your OS - MAC or Windows! It will pull this from the drives on your comp. You can chnage which OS boots automtically.

You wont lose your overclock as that should be configured from the BIOS. You shouldnt see any difference in Windows if you work solely on the OSX drive installing Mavericks and such.

If you are nervouse about anything (like i was) disconnect your windows drive while doing all the other work on the OSX work. When everything is working fine - connect your windows drive and you'll be laughing!

Ask me anything you want as i have a similar setup