Hey there. I've found endless threads on how to do this, and all of them have been very interesting, most showing on how-to do this if you have Windows installed first. That's very easy actually, the harder part is when you have OS X installed first and you just want to have another Windows partition without having to re-do everything from scratch and loosing all your data.
This tutorial will be for those that have only one hard drive, at least one hard disk for the operating systems. I installed both on my 120G SSD.
In this case I'm dual booting OS X 10.9.5 and Windows 10.
YFI: You will need two usb sticks, or only one but you'll loose all the data on it. Also read the whole thread if you're doing this, before continuing. Than go step by step.
- Have OS X installed, with at least 30GBs of free space for Windows.
- Open Disk Utility in OS X and create the partition as FAT, name it Windows 10 or something like that.
- Insert your Windows installation usb, click on Custom (when choosing if you want to upgrade or wanna do a Custom installation).
- Apparently Install Windows on the partition you created (you can see it by it's name, but you need to format it after this so take a look at the size if you have multiple partitions so you don't do any damage).
- Enjoy Windows for few minutes haha!
- Now that you're set up (in Windows OS), go ahead and open BootDiskUtility.exe and Install Clover on your USB stick. If you need to save all the settings/kexts/DSDT from your current Clover, please read below.
- Reboot with the USB and boot into OS X (via Clover ofc)
- Now that you're in OS X, everything should be same as you left it. Open up Terminal!
- Now we're going to mark the EFI partition as active, because Windows overwrote the settings that Clover made previously.
- This tutorial will show you how to do it.
- Install Clover once again (for the last time) on "Macintosh HDD" or your default partition and you're good to go.
- Enjoy dual-booting with OS X and Windows.
Tips & Other Stuff
How-to save my previous Clover settings (everything)?
While you're in Windows (told you to read everything) you need to mount the EFI partition. This tutorial here works, but use list disk just in case you have different numbers because this is a Hackintosh and it's a dual boot system.
Don't fuck up my setup?
Okay. On my previous builds when I only had a hard drive, if I changed a partition in OS X (for example I have 1 Windows OS partition and others are HFS+ for OS X, and I changed the size or created another from one, shit like that) my Windows stopped working.
Do not play with partitions on the hard disk you're using. You can edit on the other HDDs, but not on the one you installed Windows. This is a Windows issue that I'm not sure it's resolved with Windows 10, nor am I willing to try it out.
This is a noob-guide. I am aware that there are other guides online, but since many people were looking for this, this is what I did from what experience and it worked.
Thanks.
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