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Dual-boot Mac with Windows already installed?

Andrewf
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I want to dual boot mac, I have everything I need to get the installation started, I just need the sure-fire way to do it. No I don't want to install mac, and boot-camp windows, that's what everyone does, isn't there another way?

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Heyyo,

So are you saying you're looking to install Mac OSX on your PC?

If so? Then yes. You can use iBoot for Snow Leopard or UniBeast for Yosemite.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/

It will install its own boot loader (Chameleon I think it was called?) to select which OS you want to boot to. :)

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Been flirting with the idea of this myself,

Could it be as easy as a new partition then asking to boot the Mac portion from a usb to install?

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Heyyo,

So are you saying you're looking to install Mac OSX on your PC?

If so? Then yes. You can use iBoot for Snow Leopard or UniBeast for Yosemite.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/

It will install its own boot loader (Chameleon I think it was called?) to select which OS you want to boot to. :)

Yes, I have a Yosemite bootable USB I made in a virtualbox of Mavericks with UniBeast

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Been flirting with the idea of this myself,

Could it be as easy as a new partition then asking to boot the Mac portion from a usb to install?

I think so, I have a new partition formatted ready.

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I think so, I have a new partition formatted ready.

to be honest just go for it then, worst case you have to format the partition,  maybe use a spare drive if you have one, i have a crappy 80gb barracuda just for test installs , easy to format the whole drive then, no worries with removing the wrong partition. 

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Pretty sure if you try to install OS X on a drive that already has windows, you will run into many problems. I would recommend just wiping the drive and starting with OS X.

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