Vampyric Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Well first off this is by no means a easy task. I fell in love with Tiger the moment I came across the hackintosh scene. Leopard was a blast, getting it working on my HP Dv6226us had its up and downs. With the Exception of the built in mic audio in/out, and the SD card reader i had everything working pretty much. EFI everything, loved it. I bought one of those Cingular Wifi Cards and Leopard Freaked out, just wouldn't work properly with the card. So wanting to see how well the card worked I went back to windows install to find out how much dmg was done too my hard drive. Now keep in mind, leopard was running fine as far as I can see, even on the damaged hard drive. I managed to get XP working vista wouldn't even install till hours of doing this and that, and finally was a Ubuntu live cd w/gparted that I was able to creat a partiation in which vista could format. After the install, the drive was so far gone that Vista took 5mins to boot up and crashed every other boot. I am still a OS X fan, and by no means do I blame Installing Leopard or tigers for damaging the hard drive, because it was all the reinstalls that did it, and finaly the Guid setup because it was a nightmare getting the MBR back, and I knew it was that because it did the same thing on my desktop, just didn't damage the HD, still took gparted on the ubuntu live cd to get my drive back to normal. I got to do what I really wanted to do, see a great OS and how it ran before sinking the money into a Mac. I have plans of Ordering my 1st Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro in a few months, till then though I am putting Vista on my Hp laptop, SP1 seems to have fixed most of the stuff I had petpeves with, but Keep up the good work you guys, maybe with all the efforts some day Apple will Support Os X installs on any pc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 OSX that ate the hard drive! Sounds like a horror movie. Good story, thanks for that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Horror movie? I was thinking more Ernest Builds A Computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonZ Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Steve Job will never allow OSX or late edition to be ported on PC. He will be dumb to this, and he's not (Balmer's otherwise...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balto Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Wow, I can imagine how terrible your hard disk felt with the way you described it. LOL A hard drive's horror movie. Well, Vista isn't all too bad. I love most of the features but there are still quite a number of bones to pick with. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 LOL ! Your HDD isn't damaged Have you ever used a damaged HDD ? It reads file at 1Mb/hour, you can't boot or anything. You don't know how to make a proper dualboot but that doesn't mean your HDD is damaged... Whatever... sad to hear you are going back to vista. Hope you'll appreciate your new friends, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, {censored} firewall and the others Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 I haven't had any problem with Vista, i think it is not as bad as we heard in the media. But not as good as OSX though. It sound to me like bad partition was made on the user side but i am just guessing. Just remember Super Grub Disk if you wanna try duo boot again. It'll save you a lot of time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 I like Vista (and XP for that matter). I make boat loads of cash supporting that garbage. :glare: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-741580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyric Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 LOL ! Your HDD isn't damaged Have you ever used a damaged HDD ? It reads file at 1Mb/hour, you can't boot or anything. You don't know how to make a proper dualboot but that doesn't mean your HDD is damaged... Whatever... sad to hear you are going back to vista. Hope you'll appreciate your new friends, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, {censored} firewall and the others As too your comment on my HDD not being damaged, yes it is very much dead. And I've already dump'd vista and installing Leopard back now, new HD working great. Vista was great, the malware {censored} that started totally {censored}'d any thought of me buying vista. Spyware people need to be excuted by gun fire. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-742213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Updater Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Welcome back to the dark side. Do you want your cookie! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-744116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iSkylla Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 I like Vista (and XP for that matter). I make boat loads of cash supporting that garbage. Me too but when OSX has a legit problem, it's a {censored} to fix. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-744129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmramos Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Ever heard of such a thing as a back up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-744135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advokit Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I have spent years using XP and have been using Vista since it came out, its nice to use but only because I know my way around it. However since building an OSX86 machine and using Leopard on a regular basis I would have to say I certainly dont miss the spyware! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104076-goodbye-osx86-back-to-vista/#findComment-744889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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