Part 2 How to create an OS X Recovery Disk. Since OS X Mountain Lion, everything went digital and maintenance-minded Mac users could no longer In these situations, having your OS X Recovery Disk easily accessible on an external USB drive or SD card would be beneficial. It is really simple.
On a hackintosh it’s possible to dual boot macOS and Windows on the same hard drive disk, which I will explain how to here. Although it’s recommended that macOS be installed on a separate drive than Windows, it’s perfectly possible to dual boot Windows and macOS on the same drive for those that don’t have multiple hard drives to spare. Dual-booting on separate hard drives is super easy you just install macOS on one drive and Windows on the other and then simply boot Windows as a temporary device or through the Clover menu. For those that want to install both macOS and windows on the same drive this guide to walk you through the steps.
Hackintosh Dual-Boot Guide For those of you not familiar with dual-booting or a macOS hackintoshing. We will first need to format the drive as GUID using Disk Utility. Disk Utility is an application in macOS that is basically the equivalent of Disk Management in Windows and can be accessed in the same way Disk Management is either during the install or in the operating system after installation is completed. The drive should to be formatted first in macOS Disk Utility as the GUID format is required to install macOS and doing it with Disk Utility will also create a larger 200MB hidden EFI partition, which is larger than what is created with Windows Disk Management (100MB) and will therefore be able to fit both the macOS and Windows EFI files as well as leave some extra room left over. We can either make the Windows partition during the install or after the install. The reason you would want to do it during the install is if you wanted to have the Windows partition show up as first and the macOS partition as second, however personally I prefer having macOS first and Windows second as my hackintosh is reliable enough that I use macOS almost exclusively. For Dual-Booting the only requirement is that the SSD/HDD be first formatted as GUID.
You could install Windows before macOS if you really wanted to, but for this guide it makes sense to install macOS first and then Windows second as we already have to be in the macOS installer to format as GUID and don’t have to move anything around in the EFI with Windows installed after macOS. Step 1: Access macOS To create a macOS flash drive installer you will first need either a. Access to a Mac or b. A virtual machine running macOS. If you do not have a Mac or borrow then create a virtual machine running macOS using one of the two links below depending on whether you are using Intel or AMD as your CPU/Processor. Step 2: Make a macOS High Sierra Hackintosh Now that we have access to macOS we will now create a flash drive installer containing macOS install files and then install macOS.
Based on what CPU/Processor you are using following the full guide below and then return to this one once you have macOS running. Just os you know you will need to completely wipe the drive you are using in order to format as GUID using Disk Utility. Also after macOS keep the flash drive the way it is as you will need it later. You will need another separate flash drive to install Windows if you don’t already have an installer. Intel: Ryzen: Step 3: Create a Partition for Windows Now that we have macOS installed it’s time to make some room for Windows. Open Disk Utility.
Select Show All Devices by clicking on the View button at the top left corner of Disk Utility. Select the Drive (The drive is name of the drive like Samsung/Crucial and is indicated by the arrow to the left of it’s name). Click Partition button at the top toolbar. Add a new partition by clicking the + button under the circle. Give it a name and desired size I would give a minimum of 50GB for Windows 10.
Set Format: ExFat. Click Apply. Step 4: Install Windows 10 on Hackintosh If you dont have a way to install Windows you will need to create USB flash drive with Windows on it, but don’t wipe and use the same flash drive you used to install macOS as you still need that to regain access to macOS in Step 5. I followed your instructions, but I do not have a “EFI/Microsoft/Boot/” option in clover configurator.
I can boot into OSX (high sierra) only through the USB stick. I think from other posts I’ve seen that I should not have formatted the windows partition ExFat, but left it unformatted, and that because of that windows 10 created a separate boot partition. Is there some other way to get the clover bootloader to take precedence over Windows bootloader? From the USB stick’s clover, I am able to boot both Windows and OSX.
Thank you now i can dual boot windows and mac os with single hardisk. But for some steps I took quite different methods. First I install Windows 10 through USB using Rufus and formated as GPT. After that for make partition hardisk I use Minitool Partition Wizard to make partition hardisk can be read for OS X System.
Then I install OS X El Capitan (Include Clover Bootloader) and use partition hardisk space that I have create before. And for making dual boot system, I try follow steps to rename bootmgwf.efi into bootmgwf-orig.efi ^^.
Whenever Apple releases a new version of macOS, I like to create a bootable USB installation drive. I test different Macs, and when I need to upgrade those machines, it’s a lot more efficient to plug in the USB installer drive and run the installer, than to log into the App Store, download the 6GB OS installer, and then run it. Because it’s so easy to create an external installation drive, it’s my preferred means of installing the OS.
I keep it around for those time when I would rather use the drive than rely on booting in. In this article I’ll go over the different ways you can create a bootable macOS Mojave installation drive. But before I give instructions on how to create the drive, I’ll go over the items you’ll need and how to get them. Macworld also has bootable-install-drive instructions for:. Get an external drive and maybe an adapter The macOS Mojave installer software is just over 6GB, so you need a USB external drive that can hold that much data.
The drive can be a thumb drive, hard drive, or SSD. If you want to use a thumb drive, an 8GB drive works perfectly. I used an 8GB Kingston Data Traveler G4 ($11 on ); it’s cheap and it supports USB 3.1, so it’s fast. I’ve also used a VisionTek 120GB USB 3.0 Pocket Solid State Drive ( link) and older USB thumb drives that support USB 2, which is slower, but works. IDG A VisionTek USB drive coneccted to a 2017 MacBook Pro via Apple's USB-C VGA Multiport Adapter ($69). If you have a 2015 or newer MacBook or a 2016 or newer MacBook Pro, you may need Apple’s $19.
This will allow you to connect a storage device that uses a connector. If you don’t have an external drive and you have a USB-C Mac laptop, you could buy the SanDisk Ultra USB Type-C Flash Drive, which has a USB-C connector. You can get a. When creating the boot drive, the storage device is reformatted, so there’s no need to format the drive beforehand. Get the macOS Mojave installer software The macOS Mojave installer is available in the App Store.
If you launch the App Store app, do a search for 'Mojave.' Or, if you click this, it will take you to the Mojave App Store webpage, then click on the 'View int he Mac App Store' button.
You can read the information to learn more about Mojave. When you’re ready to download the software, click the Download button under the icon on the upper left. (If you’ve already downloaded the installer, the button will say Open instead of Download.) Apple Once the download is complete, the installer will launch automatically. But don’t continue with the installation. Instead, press Command-Q on your keyboard to quit the installer. The Mojave installer app will be in your Applications folder, so you can go there and launch it later to upgrade your Mac to the new operating system. Make a bootable installer drive: The quick way I used a free app called to make the installation drive.
There’s another app called, but the instructions below are for Install Disk Creator. Download Install Disk Creator by clicking on the link above. When the download is done, you can move it over to your Applications folder.
Then follow these steps to create your bootable macOS Mojave drive. Connect your drive to your Mac. Launch Install Disk Creator. In the main window, you’ll see a pop-up menu under Select the volume to become the installer.
Click on the menu and select your drive. IDG The main window of Install Disk Creator. Under the pop-up menu, you’ll see Select the OS X installer.
(macOS used to be called OS X.) If you have only the Mojave on your Mac, Install Disk Creator will automatically select it. If you have other macOS installers, you need to click on Select the OS X installer and select the Mojave installer. When you’re ready, click Create installer. Your Mac may tell you that Install Disk Creator wants to make changes, and you need to enter your user name and password. After you do this, the app will take a few minutes to create the boot drive. A progress bar.
Appears at the bottom of the Install Disk Create window. If you try to start the process and you get a failure message saying that the drive couldn't be unmounted, try reformatting the drive first as ExFAT using Disk Utility. Then start the process over again. When the app is done, the installer is ready to use.