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Thursday, 27 September 2012

Installing Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow leopard in Windows 7

Hello Freinds, love Mac?, But using windows because you did not have the booting CD or DVD. You are at the right place, I will tell you how to install Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard in Windows 7.
Here it is:

1.Requirements:
  i)Empire EFI.iso             (download link:for Intel core processors:http://www.mediafire.com/?thd5nmo2oyn
                                                               for AMD processors:http://www.mediafire.com/?m5wzzwyfg4m
  ii)Mac OS X 10.6.3 Retail.iso        (download link:http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5515580/
  iii)Oracle VM Virtualbox                (download link:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  iv)uTorrent                                     (download link:http://www.utorrent.com/downloads

2.Process:
  i)Install and open Virtualbox. Click on new button which is just below the menubar. Click next and gave a name to your virtual machine, lets giveit 'OSX'. Then click next.


ii)By clicking next, select the amount of memory (RAM) you want to give it. Lets give it 1456 MB (by default it is given 1024 MB). Then click next,next, next and then next. You don;t have to do any thing.

iii)Now select the size of the virtualdisk in megabytes, by default it is given 20.00 GB, change it to 50.00 GB if you like. Then click next. Click Create.

iv)Now go to settings of the virtual machine that you have made, then click system from left pane and uncheck the 'Enable EFI (special OSes only), it is very important to uncheck.

v)Then storage, in the video tab, maxim the video memory to 128 MB and check 'Enable 3D Acceleration'
   it is optional.

vi)Then go to storage, and right click on 'SATA Conroller' and remove this controller. Also remove 'Empty' attachment under IDE Controlleer, but remember don't remove the IDE Controller.


vii)Now click on 'Add Hard Disk' on IDE controller and choose existing disk, an open dialog box will appear, from there go to your home and open Virtualbox VM folder and open your virtualmachine folder and select the vdi file and click open.


viii)And now click on Add CD/DVD device over IDE controller and choose empire EFI.

ix)Your storage menu will look like this:

x)Now select your virtualmachine from left pane that you have made. And click start.
xi)Now you just right click on the bottom bar right side second option and select mac os x retail.iso and hit F5 from your keyboard, the name of the icon in the window change to Mac OS X install DVD.and hit enter. Follow the instructions, this will take a bit time to load.

xii)After loading you will see the installation screen, it will loo like this:
xiii)Select the languages you use, I recommend to use English. Click Next, before clicking continue, click on utilities>disk utility. Onthe left pane click the DVD drive and click on erase tab, name it, in this case I'm using OSX and click erase just below it.

xiv)Now you just close the disc utility and continue the installation, double click thehard drive which you will see when you click 'continue' in the installation screen.Now select the language translations you want to install and the softwares you need. And click OK and Install. This will take quit long, about half an hour.

xv)When the installation finishes, if you see this screen then clos the virtual machine before timeout.

xvi)Now open your virtualbox again, select your current virtualmachine and go to settings and then storage tab, and change the 'Mac OS X Retail .iso' that you have applied to 'Empire efi.iso. To change select the 'Mac OS X Retail .iso' and in the right panel under 'Attributes' section click on the 'CD/DVD icon' and select 'ERmpire EFI.iso'. It will change to empire efi. click ok. Then you start the virtualmachine.

xvii)When the screen opens, you can see two options there, using keyboard arrow keys, select your virtualmachine name icon and hit enter. Follow the instructions, and wait. This will take a little time.

xviii)When the welcome screen appears, select you country and region, and click continue, now select your keyboard layout, if you keyboard is in english use U.S. layout, it will depend on your region where you live in, click continue.

xix)Now, the sync window will come, select Do not transfer my information now. If you have another Mac and important information is in it, don't use this feature then also, OK. Click continue.

xx)Now enter your apple id, if you don't have, then you enter your email id and password you want to make and click continue. next screen comes, leave it as it is and click continue. Sign up window will come, fill in your details and click continue. (note: if you don't want to give a password leave it empty, it is not important to give a password)

xxi)After this select your time zone and click continue, now your mac installation is finished, Now you have mac os x installed on you PC!

xxii)Now, you will see an Empire EFI.iso icon, open it, and goto post installation folder and run my hack installer. Now just Continue, continue, and continue, agree, continue, and now click customize, make sure that second option should be checked, now click install, give id and password that you have made during installation. My Hack installation will start, it is given two minutes but i can take upto 10 min. When it finished installing, click close.

xxiii)Now close and power of the virtual machine nad open your virtualbox and select your virtualmachine and goto settings and click on storage tab and remove the empire EFI.iso from storage. ok. Start the virtualmachine.

Now you have full Mac OS X Snow Leopard installed. Enjoy the new, your own Mac.
Thanks for reading. For more information, send your question to> iwinmac@gmail.com
For video visit> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85zEiTxGqU
I specially say thanks to Ickjosh who helped to install mac on windows.
Bye

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