RUFUS CREATE BOOT PARTITION ON SSD HOW TO

Empty USB flash memory (1gb minimum) to spare and use it every time when you need to boot Windows. Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 bootable USB installation on flash memory (created by Rufus or Windows media creation tool).Ĥ. Minimum recommended size is 250gb, but 128gb would also work (if you're willing to install programs somewhere else)ģ.

SSD drive for macOS and Win (guess a regular HDD may also do the job, but I haven't tried). This wasn't necessary, but it made things a lot easier, since I was able to make a backup images during the installation process and combine them at the end to make everything works.ġ. To make this procedure as easy as possible, I've been using external bootable hdd with Windows 7 and Paragon Hard Disk Manager installed. If I wan't to boot Win10, I have to press F8 (Asus mobos specific) during bios initialization to call for 'Choose bootable device' menu and select USB flash memory (it's sticked in all the time). Since SSD is set as first bootable device, I've disabled Clover menu screen, so to boot macOS, all I have to do is to turn on computer and wait for macOS to boot. The only downside of this is that you have to use USB flash memory or SD card with bootable MBR partition to start Windows.Īnyway, at the end, I've managed to have both macOS and Win10 installed at the same SSD with GPT partitions.

RUFUS CREATE BOOT PARTITION ON SSD HOW TO

There's a detail procedure on how to convert partition with Windows (from Windows itself) from MBR to GPT using small tool called Gptgen. Windows 7,8,8.1 or 10 CAN be booted from GPT partition and it works perfectly and absolutely the same as if you have UEFI bios. as it usually turns out, there's a method to avoid this pointless restriction. The main obstacle was installing Win 10 on GPT partition since this is officially disabled by Microsoft for all older bios mobos (without uefi support). I have 500gb SSD so I wanted to split it in two equal partition and make a dualboot of High Sierra (hfs) and Windows 10. This was bothering me for a couple of days and I've finally managed to get it done. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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