Putting OS X on spare HDD in my PC ?

[danez]

I have a spare hdd in my PC, can i install Mac OS X onto this and boot it to mac, i don't want to make PC Duel boot on start up and put windows 7 in jeopardy, i want to boot straight from the drive that has Mac on it just like we can boot to/from a CD.
Thanks for any help.

 

[miihackwii]

I don't think the hardware of your pc will be suited for the Mac OS. Take a look here:

 http://www.hackintosh.com

 

[ferguj1]

I think the most difficult part will be the installation of OS X onto your non-mac hardware. Be sure that you have completely disconnected your windows drive prior to beginning the installation. After that, the most used method I seen was using the Boot Order key during the boot screen to choose which drive to boot from.

 

[flawless013]

as they are saying with the hardware that it may not work as mac requires specific hardware for it to run , you could try and build an operating system onto a cd or usb and set up a virtual hardware on the disc/usb this means that you can fool mac into thinking it is running on the right hardware but is being run on a virtual hardware which can run on any type of hardware , i cant remember how to do this as it has been a while but hopefully someone on here can remember or knows how to do this

 

[danez]

Thanks guys, in the past i have had PC Duel booting with windows xp and Snow Leopard, but eventually it messed up the Duel boot and would no longer give me a duel boot option, thats why i was thinking of putting it to a spare HDD and booting or trying to boot completely separate.