Basically in this step you want to put your boot loader (Clover) to the computer hard drive so you can boot without the USB stick, and this will also let you select between windows and OSX after. This is done in the final step of your install which is outlined in many of the guides here on the forums that you should read through them so you understand all the steps. The next step in hackintosh building is to get your computer to boot without the USB boot stick. Once your OSX is properly installed, by leaving the USB boot stick in your computer you will actually be able to select booting between Windows and OSX. Once you have GPT as your Windows partition, then you can proceed with the steps we've been talking about. If it is using MBR then YES you might have to format it and reinstall windows - but there are probably some Windows utilities that can convert partition types.įirst things first, determine which type of partition you have by looking in Windows disk manager. You should not have to format your disk as suggested on the forums if your partition is using GPT. Just be careful with the steps you are taking. You will not delete the Windows partition don't worry, unless you mistakingly install OSX to the Windows partition. Yes you got it, create the partition in windows first, then after once you boot up with your Mac OSX USB boot stick (make it with UniBeast) you install the OSX to the new partition and leave Windows partition alone. Everything you need will be there already for the most part. If you get stuck I can try to help, but make sure you do some searches and read some guides. The steps in this guide will be very helpful for you, as your have to FIX dual booting after your OSX install so that clover boot loader loads where you will be able to pick Windows or OSX. In my case I kept 100GB for Windows 10 and put the other 400GB for OSX. This is a BIG TIP so make sure you make note of it, otherwise you will have issues. Windows of course being windows gave me stupid errors when I tried adjusting the partition size - but I found out it was because you have to disable the pagefile before you can adjust partition because a lot of your disk will be in use as virtual memory. You can run the OSX installer and adjust your partition during OSX install, or you can do what I did which was boot into Windows 10 and use disk utility to adjust the partition.

There are lots of guides on this forum, you just have to search for them.

on the OSX partition, and Windows 10 is still there too. So far it works fine, I have final cut pro, etc. On previous builds I always used separate SSD's but this was a laptop with only one hard drive so really, I did not have much of a choice to have dual boot using one drive. I did the exact same thing recently on my latest build. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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