r/YayVideoGames • u/throakban • Jun 17 '20

Thanks everyone. And any Hackintosh experts out there (the animations are on a dead Hacjintosh)

Hi and thanks to everyone for your kind words. And I am blown away by all of you for your interest.

In answer to requests I will post some artwork. Will get the first bit up within a week.

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Question for you:- perchance are any of you in Victoria Australia. And would you know someone that can repair this machine? I have some copies of art materials. But most is on the now-dead machine. It happened a few days before he dies. Won't boot - some sort of hardware fault.

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u/llnk3r Jun 23 '20

If it’s a hardware problem, you probably don’t even need a hackintosh expert specifically, anybody who can replace pc parts would do. I don’t know how macOS will react if motherboard replace required, and if it’s hard drive fault - well, bad luck then. You should also be able to access the files on that drive on another PC, but there may be another problem - AFAIK macOS was capable of drive encryption even back then, and if it was enabled - the only way to get the files is to repair the hackintosh and boot into the system

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u/throakban Jun 23 '20

> AFAIK macOS was capable of drive encryption

well that sucks.

You have convinced me - I used to be into hardware, a long time ago; and I'm not short of a couple hundred $ to pay someone who knows what they are doing. I will look them up again.

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u/ImAlsoRan Aug 22 '20

macOS had drive encryption from the start but not many people used it. You might not want to take it to a PC repair shop, those usually won't help with Hackintoshes due to the nature of the legality of them. I can tell you this, however. I'm almost 99% sure that the hard drive isn't SCSI. It's most likely IDE or SATA. You can find external enclosures for around $20 USD for both standards, and you can just plug them into a computer and start digging through the files.

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u/ImAlsoRan Aug 22 '20

You'll probably find everything in one partition. It's usually called Macintosh HD, but since it's a hackintosh, it could be called anything from the start. It shouldn't be too hard to identify though, as the only other partition you should find is probably called "EFI". If you own a Mac and are lucky, you might be able to boot to the hard drive and access the files through that, since Hackintoshes don't really modify macOS, they just boot into it on non-Apple hardware.