Step 8: Install – macOS Catalina Hackintosh Installation Walkthrough. The next step is to install macOS and then after copy the EFI folder from your flash drive’s boot partition over to the boot partition of the drive macOS is installed on. If you need to walked through the install follow: Catalina Clover Walkthrough 10.15 Install. If your computer already has macOS installed, Hackintosh Catalina will just update macOS normally, without deleting any of your apps or files, but always a fresh installation is recommended. MacOS needs its own hard drive partition – a minimum of 15 GB of space is required, but at least 50 GB of space is recommended. Installing macOS Catalina or any other version on PC-Hackintosh or Mac might be easy. But creating a Bootable USB for it is never easy, that you can’t handle it. Indeed for the installation process on PC-Hackintosh, a perfect USB configured USB drive to install on it.
Even in this advance world of tech with all know-hows of the world, installing a Hackintosh on pc is still a pretty tedious and daunting task! A lot of kernels panics, errors, boot loops are always expected. This guide along with the YouTube Video will allow you to install a complete MacOS Catalina on your windows machine!
How To Install Macos Catalina On Pc Hackintosh Step By Step Guide
If you are bored of your old windows pc, the Crotona, the same old UI, the blue screen of death. Then you are at the correct place, I have created a video on YouTube in which I showed you a step by step tutorial on how to install mackintosh on your non mac pc or in my case an intel computer if you want to watch that video I will link it right over here, for now I will include the important links that we need while installing the macOS on our intel computer.
- System Manufacturer: LENOVO
- System Model: 81ND
- BIOS: AHCN29WW(V2.06) (type: UEFI)
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.8GHz
- Memory: 8192MB RAM
- Integrated Graphics Unit : Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620
- Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
- Chip type: Intel(R) UHD Graphics Family
- DAC type: Internal
- Device Type: Full Device (POST)
- Dedicated Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
- Manufacturer: NVIDIA
- Chip type: GeForce MX250
- DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
- Display Memory: 5986 MB
- Dedicated Memory: 1983 MB
- Shared Memory: 4002 MB
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Here I am mentioned all the bios settings that you may need to change. You can ignore some of them if they are not available in your PC/Laptop
1. If your pc has support for Secure boot, then disable it.
2. If you can find the Controller Mode / Storage in your Bios then set it to AHCI.
3. Look up for VT-d if available then Disable it
4. If your pc supports CFG-Lock Then Disable it
5. Set the OS Type to Other OS if you can find this in your Bios
6. IO Serial Port should be set to Disable position
7. XHCI Handoff to Enabled
8. Try Disabling the Usb 3.0 just in case you are getting any error.
Note: – This is optional. I installed my macOS from a USB 3.0 Port
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Use the below ones if the above ones are not working.
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dart=0
darkwake=0
nv_disable=1
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-nehalem_error_disable=1
compact_check
Make sure to format your hard disk in the following format when installing the macOS this setting will popup after you go into the Disk Utilities and select your hard drive
Name – you can give any name according to your choice
Format – AFPS
Scheme – GUID Partition Map
If you're using one of these computers with OS X Mavericks or later, you can install macOS Catalina. Your Mac also needs at least 4GB of memory and 12.5GB of available storage space, or up to 18.5GB of storage space when upgrading from OS X Yosemite or earlier. Learn how to upgrade to macOS Catalina.
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- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
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- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
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- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
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MacBook Air
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- MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
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- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook
- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, 2017)
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iMac
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