We'll be erasing this drive, so make sure you back up any files that you have on it.
In this guide, we will be manually writing the necessarily bootloader files from Chameleon onto a USB drive through a series of command-line tools in Windows. However, on Windows, the process is more complicated. If you own a real Mac, you can just download the PKG installer for Chameleon bootloader and install it onto a USB drive in a single click. Hackintoshes generally use Chameleon or Chimera bootloader ( they're really the same thing) to boot Mac OS X.
Your Mac OS X installer USB drive can act as backup boot USB drive, but if you don't have yours anymore, you're not out of luck- you can still create a makeshift boot USB drive on Windows instead. From there, you can fix whatever problem your Hackintosh is experiencing. In these cases, your best option may be to temporarily boot Mac OS X with the help of a boot USB drive.
Setting up Mac OS X on a PC carries its own inherent risks despite the fact that Hackintoshes are generally very stable, there's always a chance that your computer will fail to start, for whatever reason.
