elite-fusion Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Hey guys, I am completely new to OSX on PC's, so please bear with me. I have a Dell Latitude E6420 which I recently got from my company, obviously its a company computer so I swapped out for a new hard drive in order to set it up how I want during home hours and when at work, just pop the other hard drive in. I would like to set up a Dual Boot with Windows 7 and Lion X 10.7.2 but I have no idea at all where to begin. I have tried 2 times already with a disc that a buddy downloaded and burned for me of some version that is meant for Intel processors, but that did not work. I did set SATA to AHCI but it still did not work. Once CD is in, it goes through the black screen, then it goes to the whitish/grayish screen with the Apple logo and the little spinner on the bottom, it does the spinning for about 15 minutes, and then the spinner freezes and 5 mins after the CD stops spinning as well, I figured I'd let it sit there for a while but 10 minutes after the CD stopped spinning, I got a message on the screen saying I have to restart the computer and to press the power button, so it obviously did not work. I have been looking for the past 2 days already, I really would like to get Lion on this machine. I already have Windows 7 installed. The HDD is 300GB, I have split the HDD into two partitions, One is a 150GB Unformatted Primary partition, and the other is a 150GB NTFS Secondary partition which has Windows 7 on it installed. Can someone please help me install Lion on this machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedomrock Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Have you checked out the Wiki link? I am not sure about your model but there is a Supported Models Link. Then follow the Wiki instructions for installing Lion. It took me a few times but it does work. I used the MyHack method described in the wiki. Good Luck! Freedomrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elite-fusion Posted December 27, 2011 Author Share Posted December 27, 2011 Thanks for the insight, Yes I have looked into it and according to http://www.osxlatitude.com/supported-models/ the e6220 is supported, but I have a similar machine just a bigger version so I think it should work, but I have not really found instructions for how to install it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedomrock Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 The instructions are on the wiki link. http://www.osxlatitude.com/lion/ I suggest you read the instructions and then give it a try. You may try posting any follow up questions in an appropriate forum. This one is for Research. You may get more help. Good Luck, Freedomrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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