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i7 H@CK1NT0SH is born!
iled Under (Computers) by Shawn on 01-02-2010

If you have an i7 based PC with an Asus P6T Deluxe V1 or V2, and either wish you could run the latest release of the Mac OS, or wish you had a Mac instead, then look no further.  Dgobe put together a nearly idiot proof way to get Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) running on your PC.  It is fabulous, and you may never want to look back once you have it.  Check it out here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208724

I’m going to be posting a video in the near future of mine, for your enjoyment, and so you know what the hell I’m talking about.  One recommendation, however, Dgobe puts a procedure to “fix problems” at the end of his guide… just do it before ever rebooting.  It’ll save a step, and possibly keep your britches clean.

Thanks Dgobe!  Yours is definitely the easiest and best way to go!

Everything worked on first boot.  My only issue is getting it to dual boot with the storage controller set to RAID – as my Windows 7 installation (pre-existing condition!) is on a RAID 0.  Per the guild I set my controller to AHCI for the Mac OS install.  So to switch OS’s I have to go into the bios and switch it back and forth.  A small price to pay, to be sure.  But still, I’d like to have my cake and eat it too, thank you.  :-D

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Shawn on February 22nd, 2010 at 11:19 am #

Well, since I had to reinstall Win7 anyway (had the RC on, so had to install full retail version), so I decided to try using Windows’ software raid0. I should have done more research before attempting this because as it turns out, you can’t raid0 the system partition. I’ve done raid1 before, but apparently with raid0 you can only use it for data storage, not the OS.

So, I started over, and am back to hardware raid0 for Win7. Now I’m going to try reinstalling Snow Leopard to its own single drive, but with the controller in raid mode.

After using SL for a while, I find that for the day to day activities, I prefer Win7. I will still keep SL for music and video work.

Wish me luck!


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