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Hermansyah Filani / December 9, 2016

How to Make Hackintosh Bootable USB Drive From Windows

Make Hackintosh Bootable USB Drive from Windows

Hello! in this post I’m gonna show you how to make Hackintosh Bootable USB Drive on Windows without Distro. Without distro means we gonna make a Hackintosh Bootable US Drive for Vanilla Installation method.

This method works on Mac OS X Yosemite, El Capitan, and Mac OS Sierra. As I’ve tried all that OS myself on my low budget Hackintosh PC.

Please take note that this method won’t work for High Sierra since Apple uses different file structures in the macOS High Sierra app installer. But you absolutely can update to High Sierra with this method with no problem.

You can read post on how to safely direct upgrade your Hackintosh to High Sierra here Hackintosh Direct Upgrade From macOS Sierra to High Sierra

Can you direct upgrade to macOS Mojave? or create usb bootable using terminal with this method?

Ya! if your graphics card is compatible with Metal display technology. For more info check this post: Want to Install macOS Mojave on Hackintosh Think Again!

Okay! My Hackintosh PC spec is :

  • Processor : Intel Core2 Duo e8500 3.17 GHz: https://amzn.to/2YdfnYQ
  • Mobo: MSI G31 TM-P21 LGA 775: https://amzn.to/2J5DAtD
  • Memory : 4 GB DDR 2: https://amzn.to/2Y9uUcb
  • HDD SATA: SAMSUNG HD160JJ 160 GB: https://amzn.to/2Y8KXXB
  • VGA: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB: https://amzn.to/2YduaTw

And below are a short video of my low budget Hackintosh overview. Skip if you already watch it.

And before you start messing around with your PC. Make sure you know exactly what you are doing. And please do backup all your important data on your drive. And read the guide step by step carefully.

One more thing you need to consider before Hackintoshing your PC is. On some machines, it may have an issue with the ‘Full shutdown.’ So it’s better to plan to dual boot with Windows from the beginning.

For more info about this you can read the article here: How to Dual Boot Windows and Hackintosh With Clover

Okay! LET’S GET START IT!

To make Hackintosh bootable USB drive on Windows you’ll need a few tools

  • 7-Zip stable version Download Here
  • Boot Disk utility Download Here
  • TransMac Download Here
  • Paragon Hardisk Manager Free Edition Download Here
  • USB Flash Drive 8Gb Get one on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2uUyzAW (For El Capitan need a 16GB USB Stick)
  • Mac OS Installer retail Version of Yosemite, El Capitan or Mac OS Sierra, choose one you desire to make the bootable USB.

To get Mac OS X InstallerApps you can ask help from a friend who has “real Macintosh” to download it from the App Store. Or alternatively, you can download it through torrent.

Make sure you have a torrent client such as Transmission etc for downloading via torrent. Just search on google with the keywords something like e.g Download Mac OS (X) InstallerApps.

[Note!] In this article I use macOS Sierra for ‘example’

Work with 7-Zip

We start with creating a new folder on the desktop, name it “Mac OS” and work with 7-Zip to open Mac OS installer apps.dmg

Navigate to “Install macOS Sierra.apps > Contents > SharedSupport >Extract “InstallESD.dmg” to “Mac OS” folder that you have created on your desktop.

[Note!] Unless you have the original Installer App. This is important to extract ‘InstallESD.dmg’ file first if you work with a DMG file. So you don’t have to deal with a ‘payload’ file inside the folder.

See screenshot, click to enlarge!

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Now go to the extracted file on “Mac OS Folder” right-click “InstallESD.dmg” to open it with 7-Zip.

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Next, extract these files to the folder that you create on your desktop earlier;
Packages folder, AppleDiagnostics.dmg & AppleDiagnostics.chunklist, BaseSystem.dmg & BaseSystem.chunklist. See the screenshot below 

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Go to the “Mac OS folder” where all files extracted, and then find “BaseSystem.dmg” right-click to open it with 7-Zip.

And you’ll see few files, find for ‘4.hfs’ or ‘5.hfs’ file, then extract it to ‘Mac OS Folder’ (See screenshot below)

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Okay! now we have all files to work with Boot Disk Utility. Before open BDU plug your USB Flash drive. And make sure you have back up any important data inside your USB drive!

Format USB Drive and Install Clover with BDU

Run Boot Disk Utility As Admin Go to Option & Configuration thick on “Boot Partition Size (MB)” change size to 200.

Select your  USB flash disk that appears in BDU click ‘Format Disk.’ It will create two partitions 200 MB for Clover & 7.8 GB blank “NO NAME”space. 

[Note!] Make sure your pc is connected to the internet to let BDU download and install the latest CLOVER boot loader.

See screenshot below

BDU hackintosh

After finish formatting. Click USB Flash in BDU. It will expand into 2 partition select “NO NAME” partition and then click Restore Partition.

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A new window will appear, select “4.hfs” you have extract earlier. See screenshot

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Select the ‘4.hfs‘ or ‘5.hfs‘ file depends on which macOS you work with. Then click Open to restore it.

When the process completes, we continue to the next step.

Resize USB Partition using Paragon Hardisk Manager

When the restore process completes the size of <NONAME> partition was becoming smaller. This is because after restore ‘4.hsf’ file into it and BDU has formatted the partition into HFS Volume.

So, to make it back to full size we will use Paragon Hardisk Manager to get the job done. Because we still need to copy some file to the partition.

Run Paragon Hardisk Manager and find US Flash Disk in the Drive list.

You will see three partitions on USB Flash Disk ‘Clover-OS X Base System-Unlocated Space’ select OS X Base System resize it to full size.

See screenshot

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Working with TransMac

Now it’s time for TransMac to work with. Run TransMac as admin and select USB Flash Disk (mine is Toshiba Trans Memory)

Click on Hfs + volume > System Installation delete Packages slnk file

Then right-click, select ‘Copy Here’ and find ‘Packages folder’ in ‘Mac OS Folder’ in your desktop, and copy it.

See screenshot below ?

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Those files are pretty big in size. So, it will need some’ time to proceed, depend on your PC speed.

So, relax and grab a cup of coffee while you wait for the process complete. ☕

After done copying ‘Packages‘ folder, back to “Hfs + Volume” right-click “Copy Here”

Copy and paste of these four files: AppleDiagnostics, BaseSystem and also the both chunklist files

This time copy and paste those files to ‘Hfs + Volume’ root folder.

[Important!] On the other version of macOS it’s named ‘OSX-Base System.’  And do not copy to System > Installation folder like when you copy ‘Packages’ files. Once again I remind you [Important!]

See screenshot

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So it should be placed outside along with the ‘macOS Sierra app’ and other files in the HFS+Volume root folder.

When you’re done no we go to next step.

Adding essential kext and pre edited config.plist to Clover EFI Partition

Now the final step to make it works. We need to add essential kext and edit the config.plist in Clover EFI.

By the way, you can use pre-edited config.plist and additional kext I have uploaded below.

Download config.plist that I use here: DOWNLOAD

Download kext and driver here: DOWNLOAD

Copy config plist to Usb flash > Clover > EFI > CLOVER replace existing config.plist there.

Next, copy all kext to  Clover > EFI > CLOVER > Kext > Other (for OS Sierra) 10.11(for El Capitan) and so on. See screenshot below

For driver32 (optional) put it on driver32 folder and for driver64 put it on driver64 folder.

[Note!] Apple PS2 Controller kext will work like a charm! 🙂

Done!

Now you have a bootable US drive and ready to install Mac OS (X) on your Hackintosh PC.

For post-installation and how to set BIOS etc, you can read here: hackintosh post installation and bios setup

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For creating bootable USB drive from Real Mac computers or from working Hackintosh machine, you can read here: How to Make Mac OS Bootable Drive With Disk Utility

For the conclusion and you to Taking Note!

For me, every Hackintosh stuff is only for FUN and educational purposes only. I am not responsible for any damage caused by following this tutorial.

Make sure you know exactly what you’re doing and understand the risk as well. If you really love the Mac OS X system, then you should buy a real Mac by Apple.

However, if you still have a problem please don’t hesitate to hit me in the comment section below. Or share your experience on the Forum website and let’s help each other.

[Special note!] The first idea of creating macOS bootable USB from Windows using BDU isn’t like this. But there’s another author who also has the same idea but use the different tools. What I mean is the idea of using 7-Zip and Paragon Hard disk Manager, the credit of reference source is goes to OSX Arena. But! the difference is, here I find the way how to make the USB bootable work even on a low budget PC (core2 duo). And even it will also work to use it on a real Macintosh computer as well to install macOS.

Post last updated: 04/11/2019

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  1. Dony George says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    I have the below spec
    Processor : Intel Core2 Duo e7500 3.17 Ghz
    Mobo : MSI G31 MS 7525
    Memory : 4 GB DDR 2
    HDD SATA : SEAGATE 250 GB
    VGA : NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 1GB

    Can you please tell me or write a tutorial on how to create bootable osx with Clover on mac for old legacy systems like mine.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm

      Hi! Dony I already made the tutorial about it here http://bit.ly/2hdIWo8

      Please feel free to ask if you still need any help ?

      Reply
      • rishant says

        June 27, 2020 at 8:27 pm

        can you send me the torrent link?

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          June 29, 2020 at 4:58 pm

          Hi! Google it, use this keyword: macOS sierra mac torrent download

          Reply
  2. Jose says

    June 5, 2017 at 4:14 am

    Hello! I wanna try this on my PC, but I have an ATI Radeon HD 4600 series… What do you think?
    Processor : Intel Core2 Duo e5800 3.16 Ghz
    Mobo : Asus P5KPL-AM SE
    Memory : 4 GB DDR 2
    HDD SATA : SEAGATE 160 GB
    VGA : ATI Radeon HD 4600 series 1GB

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 5, 2017 at 3:33 pm

      Hi Jose! you can google it or maybe asking guys from https://www.tonymacx86.com about your VGA work or not, other spec i think is just fine ?

      Reply
      • Jose says

        June 6, 2017 at 4:05 am

        Wow! Really quick aswer, thank a lot! I’ll try this now…

        Reply
      • Jose says

        June 7, 2017 at 7:22 pm

        I know you can’t share the link to the .dmg file that you used to do this tutorial, but, can you share it to me in my email? I already downloaded three dmg and all of them are damaged. Thanks a lot for taking your time to aswer me.

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          June 8, 2017 at 12:07 am

          Check your inbox Jose!

          If you still need any help, please don’t feel hesitate to ‘hit me’ ?

          Reply
          • RectorLewis says

            June 16, 2017 at 3:50 am

            Any chance to get the Link for the DMG, too?

            Thanx in Advance!

          • Hermansyah Filani says

            June 16, 2017 at 4:08 am

            Actually you can get the same DMG files that I use from the internet.

            I will give you the link via email, but I need your permission to do that ?

  3. RectorLewis says

    June 16, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    Thanks for your help, u get my permission to mail me 🙂

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 17, 2017 at 1:43 am

      Check your email Mr. Lewis!

      And Thanks for Subscribe ??

      Reply
  4. Maxey says

    June 18, 2017 at 6:50 am

    Could you send me a email for the system please?I will be thankful and happy. :)I’ve got almost the same specs and I want to see MacOS by myself. 🙂

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 18, 2017 at 7:01 am

      Hey Maxey!

      Did you mean, the system installer?

      Yeah! I can give you recommended torrent file.

      Reply
  5. johnvincent says

    August 13, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    Hello will it work on my PC thanks
    MB – gigabyte g41m combo
    CPU – q9400 core 2 quad
    4 gb ddr3 ram
    gts 450

    also can i get the dmg file link
    thanks pm it to me

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      August 13, 2017 at 9:27 pm

      Hey John!

      That’s definitely will work just fine, just try it my friend!

      And feel free to ask me if you need a guid. Cheers! ?

      Reply
  6. Sergey says

    September 13, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    Kind time of the day, on my computer will work os x capitan
    CPU – Intel core 2 quad Q6600 2.4 ГГц
    Mobo – MSI G31TM-P21/P35 (MS-7529)
    VGA – ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1GB
    4 gb ddr2 RAM
    and you can throw off the working config.plist and kext to start osx
    and then I have no ahci harem in the bios
    Thank you so much!

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      September 13, 2017 at 11:28 pm

      You’re welcome Sergey!

      Reply
      • Sergey says

        September 14, 2017 at 6:17 pm

        you did what you had in the article
        but there is an error dsmos has arrived os el capitan

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          September 14, 2017 at 8:09 pm

          Hey Sergey!

          dsmos error usually caused by fakeSMC.kext failure or incompatible hardware, in this case usually the VGA card ( You can read my post for working VGA list that I ‘know’ here: https://digimanx.com/working-graphics-cards-for-hackintosh-case-study/ )

          My suggestion, make sure you use the latest version of fakeSMC.kext and latest clover boot loader.

          Try to boot in safe mode and disable Graphics card on boot.

          You can also found the download link of my pre edited config.plist above in this article ?

          Reply
  7. Azra says

    September 20, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    hey could you send me the link for dmg file? i can’t find the right one
    terima kasih sebelumnya 🙂

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      September 21, 2017 at 1:47 am

      Ok bro no problem! but can I send it to your email?

      Reply
      • William Hendon says

        November 4, 2017 at 3:05 am

        Could I please get a link to the torrent? Thanks

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          November 4, 2017 at 7:25 am

          Ya! of course,

          Please check your email. And don’t forget to subscribe to Digimanx newsletter so you don’t miss any post about hackintosh

          Cheers!

          Reply
  8. Dhanis Mustika says

    October 31, 2017 at 7:49 am

    i’ve tried to install on my Asus K401J laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo T6570, Intel GL40 Express Chipset Family, 320GB WD Blue SATA, Embeded Intel GMA X4500M Graphic Card and 4GB RAM.
    installation progress work well, till i faced the problem at the end.
    could you help me sir?
    PS : before this installation, i use OSX Mavericks 10.9.5 as a daily driver. the disk image file was Sierra Zone.dmg downloaded from hackintosh.zone

    nyuwun tulung dibantu atau dipandu dong mas.. sama-sama dari Jepara ini.. hehe ✌?

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      October 31, 2017 at 11:34 am

      Okay, I will send you email to discuss it ?

      Reply
      • Geter712 says

        November 19, 2017 at 8:17 am

        Hello
        Need help! I have Asus P6t mobo (standard version), Xeon x5670 CPU and GTX 970. I want to install OSX Sierra using your method, but I have legacy bios (no uefi). I also don’t have access to real Mac, so I need a link to correct DMG version. Thanks in advance!

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          November 19, 2017 at 3:03 pm

          Yeah! thats fine my method is mainly for legacy BIOS, but ok too for uefi user

          For installer please check your email, I’ve send you an email

          Reply
          • Bidyaraj Maibam says

            April 20, 2020 at 5:30 pm

            Please give me the link for the mac os installer apps i could not find it anywhere

          • Hermansyah Filani says

            April 25, 2020 at 1:47 am

            Hi, use this keyword: macOS sierra mac torrent download

  9. Rahendra Putra K. says

    December 5, 2017 at 3:18 pm

    Is high sierra works with this tutorial too? please send me link the .dmg you’re using in this tutor if still available, still curious to install it to my Intel PC. Thanks before.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      December 5, 2017 at 4:05 pm

      No it won’t works but you can upgrade it from sierra read here for the guid https://digimanx.com/hackintosh-direct-upgrade-from-macos-sierra-to-high-sierra/

      Actually you can search it on Google bro, try use this keyword: macos sierra dmg download

      Btw i am an Indonesian too brother ?

      Reply
      • Rahendra Putra K. says

        December 5, 2017 at 5:03 pm

        nice. will tried to google it. yep, i know you’re indonesian. that’s too indonesian name, lol. Just not cool typing in indonesia when the tutorial using english, haha.

        Reply
      • Rahendra Putra K. says

        December 5, 2017 at 5:07 pm

        Sorry again, is your tutorial works for sierra version?

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          December 6, 2017 at 12:45 am

          Yeah! works very well

          Reply
        • Rahendra Putra K. says

          December 6, 2017 at 10:02 am

          nice! ok thanks again. Matur nuwun. :))

          Reply
      • Rahendra Putra K. says

        December 16, 2017 at 8:58 am

        hi again brother, i tried download mac os installer one by one but still didn’t found like yours. Could you refer me link to your mac installer which still works?

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          December 16, 2017 at 10:33 am

          Ok, check your email

          Reply
  10. Eri says

    December 6, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    Hi Herman,
    I have downloaded your ‘config.plist & kext’.
    There are two folders: ‘__MACOSX’ and ‘My EFI’.
    What folder for this ‘fun’ hackintosh?
    Thanks in advance

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      December 7, 2017 at 12:15 am

      Of course ‘My EFI’ folder!

      ‘_MACOSX’ foder is how Apple system storing ‘Resource Forks’ when you create an archive using Mac OS built-in Zip file. You see this because you are using Windows, and this folder is empty.You won’t see this in Mac because this is hidden files.

      Please read and follow the guid carefully if you are new to this and always backup your data before do some ‘fun’ with your PC ?

      Reply
      • Eri says

        December 7, 2017 at 1:02 am

        Quick reply…awesome…
        Finnaly, i’ve got what i want -> ‘my low budget hackintosh’
        So many thanks Herman.
        God bless you.

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          December 7, 2017 at 2:07 am

          Anytime my friend,

          God bless you too ?

          Reply
  11. Diki Dwi Saputra says

    January 2, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    Hi, I used your method to make a bootable sierra, but after I chose MacOS X in clover there are an error kernel panic, it says “Unable to find driver for this platform: \”ACPI\”.\n …” what should I do? Is something wrong with the installer if this is the problem can you give me the sierra os link to my email? or any possible solution for this like how to set GraphicsEnabler to No? thanks before.
    P.S. this is my PC spec
    MOBO: asrock h110m-hdv
    VGA: AMD RX 470
    RAM: 8GB
    Proc: Intel i5 6-500

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 2, 2018 at 7:06 pm

      This post may help you bro BIOS Setting and Post installation Setup [Hackintosh] there you can also find “Troubleshoot” section.
      Actually any original macOS Sierra installer will work just fine ?

      Reply
  12. ej says

    January 21, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    High sierra has different files structure in dmg and this tutorial is useless.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 21, 2018 at 8:59 pm

      Yeah! I know buddy and your comment more useless because doesn’t help the community, thats why in the paragraph two above of this post I don’t write it will works fo high Sierra. And I have explain about this here Hackintosh Usb Bootable Made in Windows for macOS High Sierra Error

      But you know! this post will be very useful if you want to direct upgrade from Sierra to high Sierra because you can do direct upgrade only from pure Vanilla hackintosh not from distro one. You can read the post about it here Hackintosh Direct Upgrade From macOS Sierra to High Sierra

      Over all thanks for commenting, your comment remind me to write a New Post. Have a great day!

      Reply
  13. Kenneth says

    January 22, 2018 at 3:39 am

    hey man. thanks for your tutorial 🙂 anyway, can i get the torrent file of original mac os sierra? TIA!

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 22, 2018 at 3:58 pm

      Hey, No problem!

      I don’t have my own link so its better you search on Google using this keywords: os sierra installer torrent download

      Actually I still looking for cloud service to store my files, but all I found their price still too expensive for small blog like ‘this blog’ .. you know!

      Good luck ?

      Reply
  14. Utkarsh says

    January 26, 2018 at 3:08 am

    Hii I Have zebronics 945g motherboard
    2gb ddr3 ram
    120gb harddrive
    nvidia 7300se
    core2duo 2.3ghz
    will it work for me or not
    pease reply

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 26, 2018 at 3:31 am

      Looks good!
      For your GPU can fully working or not you may need to do a research, I only have a limited resource here ..you know. But there is nothing to lose to found out by testing it right?
      And please let me know with your success ?

      And don’t forget to back up your data before hackintoshing your PC!

      Reply
  15. Robson says

    March 5, 2018 at 1:05 am

    Hey, congrats for the nice tutorial, i download my macos Sierra(10.12.6) from apple store but my structure .dmg is different from this tutorial, can you send me the link?
    Your sierra is the 10.12.6 ???
    Tks

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 5, 2018 at 1:42 am

      Hi! Check your email for the link

      Is the first final release of Sierra 10.12

      Reply
      • Robson says

        March 5, 2018 at 1:53 am

        Thanks for the quick response

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          March 5, 2018 at 2:00 am

          You’re welcome

          Happy hackintoshing! 🙂

          Reply
  16. Robson says

    March 5, 2018 at 4:40 am

    Hello Again,
    One step left, but the Config.zip is empty
    Help Please
    tks again

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 5, 2018 at 9:46 am

      Sorry for that, link download for config.plist has been updated now!

      my bad …

      Thanks for let me know 🙂

      Reply
  17. Bic096 says

    March 6, 2018 at 11:22 am

    Hi pro
    Can u send a screenshots
    For the last step I didn’t understand where the file should be posted

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 6, 2018 at 11:32 am

      Hi!

      Do you mean placing config.plist, kext & driver to CLOVER EFI partition? Ok wait the moment I’ll send you email for the screenshot

      Reply
  18. C0D3X says

    March 9, 2018 at 6:37 am

    Hello,
    Thanks for your tutorial, butr I have a problem.

    When I boot I stuck on the Apple logo, after 1 minutes approximately my laptop restart.
    I’m on an Lenovo 500-14IBD

    Have you a solution for my issue ?

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 9, 2018 at 7:34 am

      Hello,
      You’re welcome

      Looks like you haven’t set the BIOS, please check this guide BIOS Setting and Post installation Setup [Hackintosh]

      Reply
  19. C0D3X says

    March 10, 2018 at 12:35 am

    Thanks for the reply,

    On my laptop BIOS, I don’t have many option (secure boot, UEFI/Legacy startup).
    I’m sure the issue come because my BIOS have not the good settings.
    If it’s possible, I can mail you some pictures of my BIOS.

    Thanks,

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 10, 2018 at 1:38 am

      Yeah! send me email, no problem 🙂

      Reply
  20. manik says

    March 22, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    you are so helping and kind i want the download link for macosx sierra installer kindly mail it to me and please tell me will it work good on intel core 2 duo e7500 @2.93ghs
    with nvidia gtx220 1 gb
    4gb ddr2 and motherboard is asus p5kpl-am/ps

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 22, 2018 at 1:03 pm

      Hi!

      Your specs looks good, but for now I don’t have my own link for macOS installer. However I will send you email link for the installer from other source 🙂

      Reply
  21. manik says

    March 23, 2018 at 10:39 am

    Brother a small query you extracted installESD.dmg on desktop in a folder named MAC OS but in half of your tutorial you started extracting things to folder named OS SIERRA I want to just know if bootESD.dmg,OSinstall.mpkg, packages and all base system,chuncklist files need to be in same folder or not kindly help

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 23, 2018 at 12:51 pm

      That’s just for temporary folder to keep everything organized, you can name it whatever you want

      Reply
  22. anlo says

    March 24, 2018 at 4:47 am

    Hi, thats great tutorial! My way is using createinstallmedia from apple osx installer. Jus grab a running OSX with dloaded installer, open Terminal app and navigate to installerfile.app/Contents/Resources/
    There you will find a couple of binaries. Run the ./createinstallmedia with –volume /path/to/your/hfs/formated/thumbdrive –applicationpath /path/to/appleinstaller/app and –no interaction if you wish an automated process.
    This will format the drive, copy all the files and make efi partition at begining of drive. Takes a while but is much easier than running trough several programs to make installer USB
    After above is done
    diskutil list to check where the usb efi partition is
    diskutil mount efilocation
    and proceed to installing clover with few tweaks aiming to installation on this partition (install to ESP and set the 0af boot bits something). Remaining options are a guess game and they depend on the hardware.
    Finally you may copy config.plist and kexts to newly created Clover bootloader folders

    BUT

    I struggle to start the installer on lenovo laptop with core2quad and nvidia grapics. It panics with your config.plist and kexts (unable to find driver for this platform). If I use my usb stick with plain clover installation and just the essential kexts and modules (FakeSMC NullCPUPowerManager OsxAptioFixDrvr) it loads to Unable to locate bluetooth transport and then hangs. Any idea?

    Thumbs up!

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      March 24, 2018 at 9:11 pm

      Hi, thanks for sharing here 🙂

      Try to disable bluetooth in your BIOS settings if available, and use my kext.

      Reply
  23. andrew kavanagh says

    April 6, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    Could I please have the link

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      April 6, 2018 at 9:57 pm

      Okay, I’ll send you an email for the link

      Reply
  24. Pratham says

    April 14, 2018 at 12:32 am

    Sir can you please help me. I have been trying to install os x 10.8 on my PC. Intel dg41rq motherboard, Intel e5200 processor, 2x2GB ddr2 RAM. I have been trying various other methods on internet. I used boot disk utility to create a clover bootable disk and i flashed a untouched os x 10.8 untouched dmg on a other USBusing dmg . I booted on the clover usb and selected the disk with the osx on it in verbose mode. I am struck on still waiting for root device. I tried everything on internet USBBusFix=Yes USBInjectAll.kext, tried many forums.
    I found your webpage and tried to follow it but the problem is when I try to open the dmg it says Archive not readable. Would you like to use a password. As far as I know my dmg file is not corrupt. And I can’t download another 5GB file. Can’t I do it without opening the dmg i.e. if you cangive me the ‘4.hsf’ file.
    Thanks in advance. Hoping for a positive response.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      April 14, 2018 at 4:16 am

      Hi Pratham!

      Make sure you running all Windows app as administrator and use the stable version of 7-zip

      Reply
      • Pratham says

        April 14, 2018 at 12:02 pm

        OK Thanks for the reply. I reinstalled 7zip from their official website. When I reached to 0.hfs and clicked open inside nothing would happen. I even pressed enter it would then run the whole process and when ti completes nothing shows up. I extracted 0.hfs to other folder using 7zip. I tcreated a folde named 0 UDF Package. And if I try to open it it shows a error can’t open.
        What are the chances that my dmg is corrupt. Or is it because my dmg is untouched.

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          April 14, 2018 at 12:19 pm

          Just download other dmg my friend. If untouched, the macOS Installer should be in App format ?

          Reply
          • Pratham says

            April 14, 2018 at 12:22 pm

            Thanks a lot sir Can you please let me know what highest version of os x i can run on my specs : INTEL DG41RQ motherboard
            Intel E5200 processor
            2×2 GB DDr2 Ram

          • Hermansyah Filani says

            April 14, 2018 at 12:30 pm

            Mavericks may still can be installed on your machine, just try it my friend …

  25. Pratham says

    April 14, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    Sir I know I have been asking you for a lot but I don’t want to download a wrong file again and run into all that hassle again. can you please provide a link of mavericks or el capitan which one would run smoother (if that is not a issue of you).

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      April 14, 2018 at 12:43 pm

      I don’t have it. But you always can ask uncle Google, use this keywords: download mac os x mavericks dmg

      Reply
      • Pratham says

        April 14, 2018 at 12:48 pm

        yes i did same last time but wasted my four on a wrong dmg don’t want that to happen again. can you do smth.

        Reply
      • Pratham says

        April 14, 2018 at 12:53 pm

        Can I share the link with you before I download. So that you can verify?

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          April 14, 2018 at 2:11 pm

          Don’t download! wait for me to verify first .. I will let you know trough email

          Reply
  26. Daniel says

    July 26, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    Hi, thank-you for your (so far) help. I’m having an issue with the ‘packages’ folder – there’s none. Whenever I try to open the .hfs folder where it is supposed to be located at, 7zip does not do anything and if I open it via extraction, it spits an error at 99%. I thought it could have been a damaged file, however, I downloaded 3 different high sierra’s, 1 sierra and all of them seem to have the same issue. please HELP?

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      July 26, 2018 at 10:28 pm

      Hi Daniel,

      Okay, I’ll send you email for known working dmg

      Reply
  27. Mhamdana says

    August 10, 2018 at 7:41 am

    Matur nuwun mas tutorialnya. Mas boleh emailin file sierra dmg nya? Susah banget cari di google yg bisa buka 5.hfs nya

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      August 10, 2018 at 2:34 pm

      Ok!

      Sama sama 🙂

      Reply
  28. Michael says

    August 22, 2018 at 9:12 am

    Good evening,
    I updated Clover last night. Now the computer will not go past the black screen with text lines. The computer was running Mac OSX Yosemite. I unfortunately do not have a Clover boot USB. I also don’t have another Mac. I do have a working Windows 10 computer. I was wondering if you know of a way I can get the Mac working again without losing all of my files. Thanks for your help in advance.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      August 22, 2018 at 10:05 am

      Hi Michael! Good evening,

      Okay, your case may cause by you update the clover but using different setting than previous installation type.

      So hope this can resolve the problem;

      1.) Try to find a usb stick and format it from your working Windows 10 using the ”Format USB Drive with BDU” above in this article. You only need to install clover on it so 1 GB USB stick can be use here. Then try to remember what kext you are using on your hackintosh, find those kext and put it on Clover > EFI > CLOVER Kext > 10.10 (Folder) You can see the example from this article in “Adding essential kext and pre edited config.plist to Clover Partition” above. (Note! This method is may not work if you install hackintosh using Distro method)

      2.) If the method above doesn’t work, the only way to save your data is by put your disk that have hackintosh on it into your working Windows 10 computer as (Other disk) and copy and save all your important files to your Windows computer using TransMac. And put back again your hackintosh disk to your hackintosh computer again and reinstall macOS from scratch. I know it’s suck but at least your important data is safe.

      If you still have a question please reply me from Contact page, so we can chat privately via email 🙂

      Reply
  29. nekoMAC says

    November 4, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    gan, bisa minta link .dmg nya, lewat email saya!

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      November 4, 2018 at 7:43 pm

      Sudah saya kirimi email gan. Mohon di check 🙂

      Reply
  30. aji says

    November 5, 2018 at 9:16 am

    how to download your link could?
    please need the link

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      November 5, 2018 at 12:18 pm

      To download files at Dropbox, click on right top ‘Download’ button (or ‘Three dot’ on smartphones). Choose ‘Direct download’

      To download file individually, right click on the file you want to download or press & hold on smartphone and click/tap on ‘Save Link As ..’

      Warning! Please make sure to backup your data before do anything with your computers bro. Ok!

      Reply
  31. Aji says

    November 5, 2018 at 9:21 am

    please I need link for your config and kext
    Thank you

    Reply
  32. Matthew says

    November 20, 2018 at 3:39 am

    Hi can you send me the dmg of the capitan? i can’t find it in google…

    Thanks 😀

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      November 20, 2018 at 1:16 pm

      I am sorry, but I don’t have the link for El Capitan. If you like I can send you email for Sierra.

      Reply
      • r says

        September 19, 2019 at 2:15 am

        hello please send me link for sierra .
        All i found were corrupted.

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          September 19, 2019 at 8:21 am

          Try to search for the torrent buddy. Use this keyword mac torrent download macOS

          Reply
  33. wisnu says

    December 12, 2018 at 1:54 am

    Hi Hermansyah, Thanks for nice hackintosh tutorial. i have almost similar PC spec, could you send me link for sierra.dmg please. i want to try it. thanks in advance.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      December 12, 2018 at 11:53 am

      Ok, please check your Inbox.

      Reply
  34. Chakra says

    December 22, 2018 at 12:39 pm

    Hello Hermansyah, thanks for share hackintosh tutorial on low budget pc rig. But, could you send me link sierra or high sierra.dmg? i can’t find it, and i don’t have real mac
    My PC
    Motherboard : NEXT Group G31-M7 TE
    Intel Core 2 Duo E7500
    VGA Radeon HD 6450
    Thanks a lot

    Reply
  35. Cee L says

    January 5, 2019 at 2:02 am

    I am having the same issue as a previous person. hfs throws an error at 99% and I have no packages files or any of the multiple files you did. Can you email me a good link for sierra. You have my permission, and anything helpful would be appreciated.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 5, 2019 at 2:41 am

      Okay, wait a minutes

      Reply
  36. Paras Savla says

    January 17, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    Sir i have two pc one is ASUS X540SA Intel Celeron Dual Core Laptop and AMD pc and want to install hackintosh i both of this soo I need Download link for sierra. You have my permission, and anything helpful would be appreciated. Plz Help me out

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 18, 2019 at 1:48 am

      Hi Paras,

      OK check your inbox in a seconds.

      Reply
      • HARSH says

        February 7, 2019 at 2:51 pm

        Hello Sir,
        I am very much impressed by your article and surprising thing is that i ahave also the same specs pc that you use to do the processing of installing the mac os .
        I am want to try my self to make an low spec hackintosh machine.
        I have read your article you have provided all the necessary and detailed steps that are required.
        Thank You Sir;
        But the Problem i am facing the MAC OS X file .
        I have downloaded the file from many sites but they are fake or unusable
        Sir It would my pleasure if you could send me the LINK OF MAC OS X file that you used in the tutorial. PLEASE SEND ME THAT TO MY EMAIL,
        I AM GIVING THE PREMIT TO SEND ME THE LINK OF THE FILE.

        At Last,
        THANK YOU SIR….

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          February 7, 2019 at 4:15 pm

          Hi HARSH!

          I’ve send you an email. Please check your inbox, .. for some case also check in spam folder.

          Happy hackintoshing 🙂

          Reply
          • HARSH says

            February 9, 2019 at 9:23 pm

            THANK YOU SIR ;
            BUT I CANT THE PACKAGES FOLDER IN THE FILE.
            WOULD YOU CAN SHARE THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE PACKAGES FOLDER ;
            PLEASE SIR

          • Hermansyah Filani says

            February 9, 2019 at 11:09 pm

            The folder is there, please read the tutorial carefully step by step. Take your time don’t hurry 🙂

  37. jose says

    April 13, 2019 at 9:28 am

    Processor : Intel Core2 Duo q6600
    Mobo : MSi G31 TM-P21 LGA 775
    Memory : 4 GB DDR 2
    HDD : 120 gb
    VGA : on board
    I got el capitan to install but i cant figure out how to get the realtek audio and networking to work. Also im using ps2 connecting keyboard and mouse but they are not found by el capitan. Did you get them working on yours since its not mentioned in your posting. If you do know can you post how to add them. Thank you for any help

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      April 13, 2019 at 10:09 am

      Hi Jose,

      For audio isue read here How to Enable Sound in Hackintosh

      Network read here How to Enable Ethernet in Hackintosh

      Use ps2 kext that include in the additional kext package in this tutorial. It should make your ps2 mouse and keyboard work.

      Reply
      • jose says

        April 13, 2019 at 1:16 pm

        thank you those links worked perfectly. Another question Intel® GMA 3100 does it have a kext or do i just use the driver that the el capitan installed ?

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          April 13, 2019 at 1:27 pm

          You’re welcome,

          It’s better to use the built in system kext, more safe 🙂

          Reply
          • jose says

            April 14, 2019 at 12:00 pm

            would you still use your NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB or use a different video card if you had a choice now (used or new card). I have nvidia 9600gt that i thought of trying but not sure how to get the drivers for that or just go out and get a used one. Let me know your recommendation. Again thank you so much for all your help and guidance in getting my desktop hackintoshing. Joe

          • Hermansyah Filani says

            April 14, 2019 at 12:23 pm

            Yeah! I still use it until now.

            You don’t need to install any driver, my friend, if your card compatible it will automatically work just fine.

  38. Jake says

    May 15, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    I have a Lenovo thinkpad laptop.
    16G ram
    intel core i5-3230 @2.6ghz x4
    64 bit
    500 gig hard drive

    Which OS version should I try? I have tried several different methods to do hackintosh on this machine and have not had one work yet. Also, do you have a link to download the OS I should try?

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      May 15, 2019 at 9:30 pm

      Hi Jake,

      Sierra will be good.

      Ok, I’ll send the link via email. If it take too long check the spam folder.

      Reply
  39. dhony says

    June 8, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    [ASK] Maaf masih newbie , Nyuwun tulung banget mas tutorial nya dgn spek dibawah, pingin banget nyicip hackintosh di PC jadul.
    Processor : Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8200 2.33 GHz
    Mobo : Asus P5KPL-AM
    Memory : 2 x 2 GB DDR 2
    SSD : 120 GB
    VGA : XFX GT 610 1GB DDR3 64 bit

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 9, 2019 at 12:31 am

      Masuk gan, kecuali GPU-nya saya kurang yakin. Tapi tak ada salahnya experiment untuk cari tahu 🙂

      Reply
  40. LINGARAJU GOTTUMUKKALA says

    June 23, 2019 at 7:35 am

    ok so far formatted using bdutility and got 200mb and rest 29gb partitions, restored .5hs file and all is well and i am trying to merge the unallocated but the paragon software you listed cant be installed on my windows 10 as it is only 32bit for the c++ supporting software required so i used latest 16.5 basic version but i am unable to merge, anyhow i opened the usb in transmac and it says no mac volumes found and i am stuck.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 23, 2019 at 7:45 am

      Hi Lingaraju,

      Try to use another computer who run Windows 10 64 bit. Otherwise, it will not work.

      Reply
  41. LINGARAJU GOTTUMUKKALA says

    June 23, 2019 at 8:03 am

    @Hermansyah Filani, i downloaded the sierra from a torrent ( i guess its already made usb i am not sure) and it has the following contents.
    .DropDMGBackground, .fseventsd, .HFS+ Private Directory Data_, .Trashes
    [HFS+ Private Data], Install macOS Sierra.app, .DS_Store, .journal, .journal_info_block, Applications.
    and i am using that to create usb and i am not sure if the one i downloaded is already premade and if so how do use the one i downloaded to create usb, thank you.

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      June 23, 2019 at 8:24 am

      No, it won’t work. Find the original (untouched) one. That’s why it’s called Vanilla Hackintosh.

      If you like I can email you to the link of the torrent 🙂

      Reply
      • LINGARAJU GOTTUMUKKALA says

        June 23, 2019 at 9:03 am

        please for mac os sierra and disk manager tool as well thanks.

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          June 23, 2019 at 9:21 am

          No problem, check your inbox bro!

          Reply
  42. Malek says

    October 1, 2019 at 3:53 am

    Hi Hermansyah.. thanks for your post. I can’t find the Package Folder. I have tried 2 .dmg files from Internet. can you please send the link for your .dmg
    Thank you

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      October 1, 2019 at 11:08 am

      Hi Malek,

      It cost a lot to upload such a big file like macOS installer to a paid cloud hosting file sharing service. But you can get it via torrent btw, just Google it by using this keyword: macos sierra mac torrent download

      Hope that help, because I can’t share a torrent link that obviously wasn’t mine. Just find the original/untouched one and everything will work fine.

      Peace ✌️

      Reply
  43. Charlie Shain says

    November 21, 2019 at 12:46 am

    My System Configuration is Bellow:
    Motherboard : msi ms 7529
    Possessor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33 GHz
    Ram 4 Gb
    Graphics : Nvidia Gforce GT 9400
    –I want try Hackintosh For Web Development —
    please Send Me The Best Mack Os DMG file Download Link Via Email

    –Advanced Thank You…

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      November 21, 2019 at 1:19 pm

      Just Google it by using this keyword: macOS sierra mac torrent download
      Choose the original ones / “untouched” Or ask a friend who has a real Mac computer or a running Hackintosh to download it from App Store.

      NB. I can’t upload my own file because the cost of online file storage is really expensive.

      Reply
  44. jeffrey says

    January 21, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    pls gve me a link mac os for lenovo r500 tnx bro

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 22, 2020 at 1:14 am

      Hi Jeffrey,

      Google it bro, use this keyword: macOS sierra mac torrent download

      Find the original ones! and then download the file using the torrent client application such as”Transmission” etc.

      Reply
      • jeffrey says

        January 29, 2020 at 12:14 am

        bro i kind find the installer
        can you gve me a link tnx

        Reply
        • Hermansyah Filani says

          January 29, 2020 at 11:02 am

          Try here: https://www.google.com/search?q=macos+sierra+mac

          Or, download it from App Store with a running Hackintosh or a real Mac Computer here: Download macOS Sierra

          Reply
  45. Adi Firdaus says

    February 18, 2020 at 3:57 pm

    [Important!] On the other version of macOS it’s named ‘OSX-Base System.’ And do not copy to System > Installation folder like when you copy ‘Packages’ files. Once again I remind you [Important!]

    in this instruction u dont need to copy the packages folder.
    My question: is the packages slnk still need to be deleted?

    thank you

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      February 18, 2020 at 5:39 pm

      The instruction meant to copy the AppleDiagnostics, BaseSystem and also both chunklist files to the root folder.

      Yeah! you need to delete the slnk file then replace it with the Package Folder.

      Below is what inside the USB Root Folder should look like:
      macOS USB Bootable

      And this what inside the System > Installation Folder should be:
      Inside macOS USB bootable

      Please take your time and read carefully step by step, and it should be easy brother 🙂

      Reply
  46. Kautsar Giffari says

    January 7, 2021 at 3:17 pm

    Halo saya lagi coba hackintosh di
    -q8400
    -radeon hd8570
    -motherboard ms7541-v.2
    -samsung evo ssd

    kalau boleh tau itu pake config.plist nya yang mana ya atau bebas aja?

    Reply
    • Hermansyah Filani says

      January 7, 2021 at 4:31 pm

      Bebas saja mas bro, tapi kalau bisa sih di sesuaikan dengan perangkatnya gitu.

      Reply

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