To do this, start up Disk Utility, which is located under the Utilities menu in the top bar this step is shown in the second picture. You need to use Disk Utility to erase a hard drive partition so that OS X Mountain Lion can install itself on it. In the sidebar of Disk Utility, choose the hard drive partition where you want Mountain Lion installed, and erase it by using the Erase tab. You can also just erase the entire hard drive this is the preferred solution if you dont plan to dual boot Windows and Mac OS X from the same hard drive. In the screenshot below, my hard drive partition is called disk. GB VBOX HARDDRIVE this step is shown in the third picture. When erasing, the format should be set to Mac OS Extended Journaled. You can also partition the hard disk by using Disk Utilitys Partition tab. NOTES Mac OS X cannot boot from a partition thats larger than 1 TB in size, so if you have a 2 TB hard drive, you will have to partition it. Unlike the default OS X Mountain Lion installer, the i. Atkos version of the Mountain Lion installer works with MBR partitions I will post a guide about MBR partitions soon by default. If your hard disk uses the MBR partition scheme, i. Atkos will install itself onto there without the need for prior modifications. The i. Atkos version of the Mountain Lion installer also works with software RAID 0 arrays by default. If you want to set up your Hackintoshs hard disks in a RAID 0 array, simply create an array by using the Disk Utility app inside the i. Hi, Alex, I just found out about your Hackintosh Blog Im excited But if I diddle with the bios like you said, will it mean that I can no longer run Vista on. Back in the day June 2010, to be precise, this tutorial explained how to install what was then Mac OS X on a Windows PC without the need for a Mac. This is no. Atkos installer see Step 1 of our RAID 0 guide. Atkos will install itself onto there without the need for Steps 2 5 of our RAID 0 guide I will post a guide about RAID soon. On the installation page for Mac OSX, the hard diskdisk partition should now be showing up. Select it, and then click the Customize button on the bottom left. This is where using a distro becomes really useful i. Atkos allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts I will post a guide about kexts soon, straight from the Mac OS X Lion installer. The Customize page essentially does the same thing as Multibeast I will post a guide about the use of Multibeast soon, though the layout and most of the names of the options are different this step is shown in the fourth picture. However, choosing the right options from this page can be really tricky, so unless youre absolutely certain about which drivers and kexts you need to install for your computer, I dont recommend installing too much stuff from here. The default selection will enable Mac OS X to boot from the hard drive without any assistance it may also enable sound and ethernet in OS X. If youre interested in running Mac OS X, but you dont want to pay ridiculous prices for a normal Mac, then a Hackintosh just might be for you. In this guide, I. Building a hackintoshthat is, installing Mac OS X on nonApple hardwareused to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of knowhow. Now. Recently, I installed Mac OS X OSx86 Project on My HP Laptop. Universal Viewer 6 5 3 2 Portable Pump. It took me 24 hours to experiment witha ll possible procedures and install. Most of the guides. NNrlAnasqI/Tzf3pzv80xI/AAAAAAAAAxA/jbyUGDyoibs/s1600/Region+capture+5.png' alt='Install Osx86 Without Ahci Drivers' title='Install Osx86 Without Ahci Drivers' />For most computers, that will be enough at least for the initial installation. If you wish to install more, refer to my guide to Multibeast I will post a guide about the use of Multibeast soon. Otherwise, you can figure out the rest in Step 6, where youll actually set up your Hackintosh with Multibeast. After youre done with the Customize page, install Mountain Lion. This will take at least 3. Once the installation finishes, remove your i. Atkos USB driveDVD, and restart. At the boot screen, youll see an icon for the hard drive where you installed Mountain Lion. Select it use the arrow keys on your computer and press Enter. Mountain Lion will boot. Mission accomplished The sixth picture shows the final screen. Once again, if you get a kernel panicloading error when you try to boot your new Mountain Lion installation or if the installation simply wont start within 1. To enter boot flags, manually restart your computer by pressing your computers power button. Then, once youve booted back into the i. Atkos menu, try type any necessary boot flags I will post a guide about boot flags soon before pressing the enterreturn key. Check out this list of common boot flags I will post this list soon for reference PCIRoot. UID0 and x are two popular boot flags.