I’m periodically getting questions about so called “dual boot”, so that is exactly
what this whole video is gonna be about.
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So let’s talk about the dual, tripple or even more :) boot option with your Hackintosh
build.
I don’t want to shock you straight in the beginning, but my opinion is simple - I don’t
recommend to dual boot, especially not for beginners.
But if you have still adventure soul, then let’s dive into the problem deeper.
The reason I don’t recommend it is a simple fact, that Windows likes to touch and destroy
any other systems bootloaders during their stupid and very often updates, even disks that don’t
belongs to them.
Imagine, you have a Windows build and you successfully installed also macOS on your
machine.
One day you decide to boot into Windows to play some games.
Great idea, OK, enjoy your game, but then you get a message Windows are updating, don’t
shut down the computer bla bla, you know it very well already.
OK, so you wait before shutting down your PC.
After your PC is off you will try to boot your Hackintosh into macOS and bang.
Error message or in the better case your computer will boot just the Windows and no other system.
That’s the problem I’m talking about.
So is there any way how to avoid such problems?
Yes, if you will follow these three simple rules.
First one is the one you don’t want to hear - don’t dual boot.
It is not just a problem with Windows, it also affects the bios settings.
Don’t forget that for smooth hackintosh you need to specifically set your motheboard BIOS.
Your Windows will probably need different settings.
Always install operating systems on separate disks = one disk for Windows, one for macOS,
one for Linux etc.
Don’t mess with partitioning disks, just to save money.
Lot of people separate disks into different partitions for different systems.
But they forget about bootloader partition is mostly only one for all systems, so each
system is touching it in some way.
Unless you’re familiar with Grub or other bootloaders, don’t do that!
Never boot into Windows while other system disks are also connected.
So before you decide to boot into Windows physically unplug other system disks, or just
disable them in BIOS.
These are the only principles that saves you of Windows destructive behaviour.
I know it’s not so pleasant and comfortable to disconnect or disable each time in BIOS
the disk, but give yourself a question.
Do you really want to go through that process of installing macOS again when your Windows
will ruin it?
And tweaking everything again and again?
I guess no :) macOS will never harm your Windows, but Windows can harm your macOS.
So let’s assume you have already Windows installed and macOS too and you just ignore
all my advices and you want as easy dual boot as it can be.
Make sure your Windows are installed in UEFI mode.
You can verify it in your motheboard’s BIOS - when you see a boot option with Windows
in front of the name of the disk, then you’re OK and your Windows installation is UEFI.
Also make sure your BIOS is set to boot UEFI only to avoid any confusion.
With both disks, Windows and macOS disk connected, you must set as a primary boot device the
disk with Hackintosh macOS installation.
The Clover bootloader will handle the boot options for both systems.
Now just boot your Hackintosh.
The clover boot screen will offer you all available UEFI installations it can find in
your Hackintosh.
So in my case here it found the main macOS installation, then the macOS recovery partition
and the last one is my Windows 10 installation.
Now it’s only up to you, which operating system you will boot, just use your keyboard
arrow keys to select the system you wanna boot and hit Enter.
So let’s try the Windows first.
Great, booted fine.
So let’s reboot and boot the macOS.
Again, working as expected.
So when we are in macOS I will show you some options related to the dual boot.
Here in the GUI section you can tweak the settings, what will be displayed on the clover
boot screen.
These settings you see now should work for 99% of people.
Change it only in case you will have any problems.
So as you could see, dual boot is very easy to achieve if you follow mainly the BIOS portion
of settings I recommend.
But all in all I personally recommend to use Hackintosh just for macOS.
And to have a separate ordinary PC just for gaming for example.
This will bring you a freedom, good feeling and calm sleep, believe me.
I use my fastest and greatest Hackintosh strictly only for all my production work.
I need stability, performance and reliability.
I need to know that anytime I push the power button, it will simply work, everyday, anytime,
all the time.
I don’t need to worry about I have to wait until Windows will finish their updates, or
the worst case scenario = Windows will brake my Hackintosh bootloader completely.
So think of it like the Hackintosh is some kind of Workstation, working always as expected.
So I believe you have now already enough informations about Hackintosh dual boot with Windows, so
you can set it up on your own.
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