Bye Bye Mr Hackintosh…

I expected that this day would come eventually, but like all software crashes, it still hurt when it did . Today, my pride and joy hackintosh has finally thrown in the towel.

It was never a perfect install, but I had gotten used to all of the hangs, crashes, bangs and rattles that it had and they would warm my heart  like no native MacOS ever could.

But today, the dreaded day came.  I booted up the box this morning to a POST error (I can’t remember what exactly).  I thought this was a little strange as the box has always posted despite being overclocked to 3GHz from 2.6GHz.  I had turned off the power supply last night as the fans had kept spinning despite shutting down (one of the mac install’s lovable traits).  I didn’t think that this was going to be a big deal so I rebooted, got it to post and it started to load MacOS.  This is where the problems started.

It hung on boot up, so I rebooted again.  This time it got to login prompt but would go no further so I rebooted yet again.  This time I tried a verbose boot and it flagged up an error about corrupt HDD (something about keys, I can’t remember exactly).  Then came safe mode and it hung again.  I repeated this for a few hours trying to boot from my install CD and run Disk Utility.  My final try came when I burned Disk Warrior to DVD, only to realise 3 DVDs later that it wasn’t going to boot on PC hardware.  I finally (about an hour ago) conceded that there was going to be no way I could recapure the old install so I have began to backup data.

I am using TransMac to copy all of my needed files from the Mac partition onto a FAT32 drive and it is working rather well.  I will then be installing a fresh copy of MacOS again and praying that I didn’t leave anything obvious behind.  I will be doing a little bit of research before I install as I wasn’t overly happy about the shutdown/restart/sleep not working so I may try a different install CD to iAtkos.  Most likely not though as I cba downloading any more ISOs.. I wasted enough DVDs today.

I’ll make some notes during the install and write a little guide up here when I’m done

Stephen

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