I thought I'd take a minute to 'document' my experience setting up a Hackintosh on a brand new PC, with existing Windows 7 Professional (64-bit). I was a complete noob at this, and coming out of it I'm just bedazzled how much legacy instructions are out there.
Don't do everything that you find Google tells you to do.
I'll highlight VERY CLEARLY what the pre-requisites are (and critique if not clear enough, let's work together brahs):
1) Knowing what type of partition your OS boots from (MBR or EFI). Here's an example:
2) Depending on the above, choosing a bootloader (Clover for UEFI, Chimera for MBR). Don't follow the TonyMac website if you're using EFI, you'll end up needing to format your PC.
3) BACKING UP your EFI files. Nothing frustrated me more than not knowing what partition these were on, or where they were on the Windows CD.
4) Make sure you buy a USB stick. If you accidentally delete your EFI partition, at least you can still boot into Mac with this.
5) A copy of Mac OS. I had an Apple laptop lying around, so I downloaded the OS from the AppStore. Otherwise ask your friends to get it for you.
6) 2 disk drives is preferable, 1 for each OS. I have Windows on my SSD, and Mac on my HDD.
7) Most importantly, get familiar with extending partitions and creating them with fdisk in Mac OS. Loads of Hackintosh setup sites have the commands you'll need (I deleted and recreated partitions at least 5 times before it worked).
My SSD has a 100MB EFI partition. Hackintosh instructions state to set this to 200MB. PAY NO ATTENTION. Just stick with 100MB and don't mess with the sizes of your partitions or they'll start at address spaces you won't want them to. Again I'll say I used a PC with an existing Windows 7 installed.
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