Sunday, July 28, 2013

hackintosh installer on USB with windows

Ok enough chit chat, below is the instruction on how you can use a USB flash Disk to make it bootable with an hackintosh installer using "Transmac" in Windows. Some people might find it very frustrating to know that any bootable material used to make a hackintosh installer have to be burned using a mac so this is one of those solution. in these process you'll need:
  1. any dmg of the distros (later converted in .iso)
  2. a 8 Gb flashdisk
  3. a laptop with windows, and
  4. a Transmac software
After downloading your Transmac software, insert the USB in the USB port. Run Transmac and run it as administrator (in window 7). At this point you can see the simple Transmac tool as seen below. Look at the option, as seen below having your flash disk mounted and choose "format disk for mac" choose "HFS+" (extended).




This is a "formatting phase" to get your USB on the readable mac format (HFS+), after a few moment the formatting is done. Still on the option menu, choose "restore with disk image" with its source from the image file. Notice that you must first convert it into a .iso, you can use "power iso". With the .iso ready and the Transmac standby you can just restore it by a click of a button.




Wait until its done. At this point you have an installer inside the USB Flash, for the retail version you still need a copy of Chameleon Bootloader for windows (what is its and its function you read it here). For the Bootloader you can use either another flash disk or burn it on a CD, and after that, voila!! you have a Bootable Hackintosh installer. You can also use a transmac to burn CD/DVD but make sure you use a slow writting speeed so it wont get buffer underrun.


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