alexandervos Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 I am trying to dual boot on a single hard drive. I can not format the partition to NTFS in the windows installer. When I was installing Yosemite, i have made two partitions, both mac os extended journaled. Can you help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 6, 2016 Administrators Share Posted March 6, 2016 You 1st need to format the Windows target partition as FAT from Yosemite. You'll then be able to reformat it NTFS from the Windows installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandervos Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 Ok, i did what you said. now when im installing i get the error "Windows cant be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI Systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scram69 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 You 1st need to format the Windows target partition as FAT from Yosemite. You'll then be able to reformat it NTFS from the Windows installer. Ok, i did what you said. now when im installing i get the error "Windows cant be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI Systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks" Unfortunately, when you use OS X Disk Utility to format partitions as FAT, it will convert the disk from valid GPT to hybrid MBR. You will need to clear the hybrid MBR data before Windows will install. See this post. In the future, a better approach is to allow Disk Utility to format both partitions as OS X journaled. Then use the Windows installer to delete the 2nd OS X partition and install windows in the empty space. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandervos Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Unfortunately, when you use OS X Disk Utility to format partitions as FAT, it will convert the disk from valid GPT to hybrid MBR. You will need to clear the hybrid MBR data before Windows will install. See this post. In the future, a better approach is to allow Disk Utility to format both partitions as OS X journaled. Then use the Windows installer to delete the 2nd OS X partition and install windows in the empty space. Thank you, I can now dualboot due to your described method. So it was not needed to create the FAT partition, right? I will keep that in mind for the next time I will install. I noticed windows boots quite slow. But thats probably normal due to clover switching os's or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scram69 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I'm running windows 7 on a 2nd partition on a SSD in my E6230. The boot time seems pretty quick to me, but I've got nothing to compare it to as I don't run windows anywhere else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandervos Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Yes it seems to be booting stable after a couple of reboots. Thanks to everyone who responded in this thread. The thing that annoys me about OS X, is that i cant use a right click like i normally would in windows, either on my trackpad(the right button) or with my mouse(this is my first time running os x btw) Do you know if there is a fix for simulating windows right mouse clicks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted March 7, 2016 Moderators Share Posted March 7, 2016 Replace the VoodooPS2Controller with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandervos Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Ok, i have tried this kext you posted, and 2 other kexts from the hackitosh vietnam tool. It wont solve my problem, ill try to describe. When I hold an item. I am not able to release the item(eg. system preferences) Its just glued to my mouse cursor the whole time. Its driving me crazy. And when I use logic, a single click on a item will glue it to my mouse cursor, which results that I cant do anything with logic, and have to force quit it. I already tried taking my battery out for 30 seconds. And trying everything in the touchpad settings(system preferences) The problem occured when I installed windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandervos Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Hmm strangely enough it won't glue to my mouse cursor anymore when I uninstalled the driver in windows. Atm trackpad is not detected though in mac osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts