dwight_talley Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 This past weekend I was successful in installing Big Sur on my Gigabyte Aorus Z490 computer with a i9 10900 CPU and a Radeon RX 480 GPU. I installed the OS on a 1gb test hard drive and everything worked from all of the USB ports, the sound, Bluetooth, sleep and Wi-Fi. I was very happy that this all worked on the first try without a lot of tinkering. Thanks very much. Now I am trying to install on a larger 2gb hard drive but the install is stopping at the Apple logo on a black screen with the time counting down from 24 minutes to zero minutes but it stops there, does not boot any further. Nothing has changed except trying the same install thumb drive with a larger hard drive. I am using the correct Cometlake EFI, which worked when I installed it the first time. Not sure what to do now. Thanks for any help you can provide. Dwight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators MaLd0n Posted March 30, 2022 Administrators Share Posted March 30, 2022 what hard drive? Quote -Donations- PayPal HERE - Stripe HERE - Ko-Fi HERE - BuyMeaCoffee HERE - Mercado Livre HERE Skrill [email protected] BTC 1BDzsV4bw3DVCiffFAeNKsdEzqkPXNVrXR ETH BSC BEP20 0xb57cfdfa371fad1981910f0e8332409ab99f74d9 BNB 0x10D1d656eCa00bD521f9b4A43B83098B8142e115 USDT BSC BEP20 0xb57cfdfa371fad1981910f0e8332409ab99f74d9 USDT TRC20 TUR6Z9AVS4AYzqPnULoHrfFvppRbhXmNbZ PicPay @danielnmaldonado PiX @[email protected] Problems with Paypal HERE Sign up for a Bybit account and claim exclusive rewards HERE New ways to earn money with Linkvertise HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwight_talley Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 The hard drives were Western Digital: WD10EURX for the 1tb and WD20EZBX for the 2tb. In the meantime, I got a disk copier software and copied the 1 tb to the 2tb and then copied the correct EFI to the drive and everything is working fine with the larger drive. Just need to know why I was having problems with the install. I was tired when I posted and mistakenly said 2 gb drives.  , Dwight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwight_talley Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 I did a quick test and installed on a small hard drive and it installed without any problems. So the issue is the large 2tb drive preventing the install.  Dwight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevijonson Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I think you should contact specialists in this matter. You have a rather expensive laptop to experiment on your own with its technical components. Therefore, it is better not to take risks and not follow the advice from the Internet, but to find a good computer service and pay for their work. If we talk about working with flash drives and hard drives, I can advise you on a flash drive recovery service. I always turn to them with such questions. If it's convenient for you, then I recommend them to you. Edited April 8, 2022 by Kevijonson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
