You will need either a seperate hard drive (seperate partition will not do) or an external hard drive. Whatever extra hard drive you use will be completely replaced by osx and you will lose all information on that drive.
1. Authorized users should obtain the OSX files from Apple.
2. Unrar these files to the root of your C: drive
3. Download Forensic Acquisition Utilities
4. Unzip these files and copy dd.exe to the root of c: drive as well.
Note: the dd.exe program is used to write the image to your spare hard drive or external hard drive. The command is the following:
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething
PhysicalDriveSomething should be replaced with your real physicaldrive (PhysicalDrive1, PhysicalDrive2, etc.). What your hard drives or usb drives are labelled is not always obvious. So I use WMI to figure this out. If you don’t need it, don’t get it. It’s free… and it may prevent you from killing your wrong hard drive.
5. Download WMI Tools from Microsoft
6. Open WMI Browser Object
7. Allow block content and click the OKs until it loads
8. Select Win32_SystemPartitions.PartComponent in the left column
9. In the right column right-click on the drive device id (Disk #0, Partition #0, etc) and select Go to Object
10. The device window will open and click the associations tab
11. Exploring with this tool you should be able to match drive letters (Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=”C:”) to each physicaldisk reference (Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID=”\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0″)
12. Now that you know the physicaldrive label for your extra internal or external drive, you can drop to the root of your c: drive and run the command. Be sure to replace the physicaldrive text with the physical drive you determined above. If you use the wrong one, you will erase your primary hard drive.
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDrive
13. The command will appear to hang but you will notice your extra harddrive cranking away. It’s going to do this for 15min to hours. Just let it run.
14. Once it is done, reboot and set the osx drive to your boot drive through your bios.
