Hi, first post here on these forums.
Recently discovered hackintosh and thought i would give it a try. But before i get started with anything i'm wondering what the worst thing that can happen during an attempt to install OS X on a pc.

Nothing a reformat can't solve hopefully?

Hi,
To be safe for testing, you could install it to a spare hard drive. It should work if your hardware is fairly recent, and yes in worst case, reformat then would take care of it.

:O i can actually install it on an external harddrive and run OS X from that drive whenever i feel like it ???
That sounds pretty awesome.
How do i do it ?

Originally Posted by beck92

:O i can actually install it on an external harddrive and run OS X from that drive whenever i feel like it ???
That sounds pretty awesome.
How do i do it ?

Yes, it's a bit slower but usable in many cases.
And you would do it exactly as installing to internal hdd, just the disk destination would be different.

Will the external hdd need to be empty? As i have tons of files on my current.

Originally Posted by beck92

Will the external hdd need to be empty? As i have tons of files on my current.

It would need to be formatted, yes, but not necessarily be the whole hdd if that what you meant. You could just shrink/partition/create a new partition, about 8-20 GB is enough.