Mac OS Hard Drive

[Yea, i use windows, W]

What If Took Out The Hard drive Of A Real Mac For Eg. Mac Pro... Took It Out And Put It Into A Separate Machine..And Chose To Boot Into That Drive.. Maybe It Will Boot As It Has The Mac OS Installed, And We Can Copy The Whole Drive For More Uses!

[Alkocicero]

Nah wont work as the installation is specifically for the hardware in the Mac

[Yea, i use windows, W]

Just now, Alkocicero said:

Nah wont work as the installation is specifically for the hardware in the Mac

But We Can See And Try! Maybe It Will Work!

[Alkocicero]

Good luck  I wish it was that easy to do, I have been trying to make a b450m hackintosh for a few days, sigh...

[Blue4130]

Just now, Samurai9954 said:

But We Can See And Try! Maybe It Will Work!

No, it will not work. No matter how much you pray and dream. 

[Yea, i use windows, W]

Maybe True

[Alkocicero]

I have just now, no luck

[Blue4130]

1 minute ago, Samurai9954 said:

But Have You Tried IT???

No, but I know enough about computers to know that it won't work. 

[jaslion]

It will not work. OsX is validates what system it is in before booting if the ids do not match up it won't even attempt a boot. That and all the other issues.

[PorkishPig]

35 minutes ago, Samurai9954 said:

What If Took Out The Hard drive Of A Real Mac For Eg. Mac Pro... Took It Out And Put It Into A Separate Machine..And Chose To Boot Into That Drive.. Maybe It Will Boot As It Has The Mac OS Installed, And We Can Copy The Whole Drive For More Uses!

If it were that easy there would be no Hackintosh community.

 

We're not talking about an open-source Linux distribution here, we're talking about an OS developed by a trillion dollar company known for its walled gardens.

[Johnny-Boi]

1 hour ago, Samurai9954 said:

What If Took Out The Hard drive Of A Real Mac For Eg. Mac Pro... Took It Out And Put It Into A Separate Machine..And Chose To Boot Into That Drive.. Maybe It Will Boot As It Has The Mac OS Installed, And We Can Copy The Whole Drive For More Uses!

god yes, i would LOVE to have Mac OS installed on a top of the line Lenovo laptop, @LinusTech please do a video on this, or just go and add it to the $32,000 Mac Pro killer

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, Samurai9954 said:

Maybe True

Not maybe. You would need to have exactly same hardware configuration, with maybe some approved RAM.

[pwnusmaximus]

14 hours ago, Samurai9954 said:

What If Took Out The Hard drive Of A Real Mac For Eg. Mac Pro... Took It Out And Put It Into A Separate Machine..And Chose To Boot Into That Drive.. Maybe It Will Boot As It Has The Mac OS Installed, And We Can Copy The Whole Drive For More Uses!

What exactly do you mean by "Separate Machine"? do you mean a identically prepared Mac Pro? or just any intel Mac? Or do you mean a PC tower? And if it's a PC tower do you mean one with an Intel or AMD CPU?

 

In the age of the T2 chip:

if the MacPro you are refering to has a T2 chip.. NO. the transfer will not work and the new machine will NOT boot. The drive is encrypted in hardware and paired to that T2 chip.

 

Before the age of the T2 chip:

If it is a identically prepared Mac Pro (trash can or older), yes. the mac will boot with no issues.

If it is another mac system like an iMac, MacMini, MacBook Pro or something, so long as it supports the same version of macOS on the drive.. and you have an appropriate caddie or drive adapter to get the Mac Pro's drive working via USB C/Thunderbolt 3 this set up will also boot just fine.

If it's any other system... Windows PC, Linux PC, on ARM, Intel or AMD. nothing will boot the OS.

Even if it's a hackintosh, one would have to set up the OS before hand with the appropriate drivers for your hacintosh system and likely have many other OS tweaks to work on that system.

 

I hope that helps clarify.

 

as for wiping the drive for more uses.... if you are using a drive as a boot volume you cant wipe it and use it for more uses without destroying the OS that is running on that drive. Its like trying to destroy a rug you are standing on... it's gunna be tough.