TL:DR version:
I messed up my SSD while trying to revive my windows installation on another SSD. And even after restoring both SSDs and having running MacOS and Windows I can't make Hackintosh SSD boot properly, stuck with this (have to boot from installation disk with clover)
Full story (sorry for excessive details, don't want to miss something important):
I upgraded to El Capitan after getting myself a new SSD, and run in a few problems: I killed my windows (because I didn't disconnect windows SSD while installing El Capitan) and encountered weird problems with my graphics in the games I really like (different posts: 1, 2).
So I decided to revive my Windows and downgrade to Yosemite, I started with windows, I created a Windows installation USB drive using this method with a Win 8.1 iso. I tried booting it, but ran into some problems, (you can read about it in my "I killed windows" post linked earlier), eventually I fixed it and started installing windows and made the same mistake: I didn't disconnect drive that had MacOS on it, so windows installer created "windows boot manager" on my Hackintosh SSD which effectively killed my El Capitan installation and I had to format my windows SSD and install it from scratch.
With running windows I created an USB to install Yosemite using pre-created image. I formatted SSD with dead El Capitan from under the Yosemite installer and installed Yosemite with no problems. I ran Clover installation but I can't make "Windows Boot Manager" go away. I ran Clover few more times, tried different options, but I don't really understand most of them so it was kind of taking wild guesses. I don't want to risk messing everything up again by trying to boot from "Windows Boot Manager" so now I'm booting from the same install USB, but I want to fix this to this working properly.
I've googled the problem, I was able to find that I need to "flash" my BIOS, but I have no idea how I do it, and I don't want to risk ruining my computer by blindly clicking around in BIOS. So thats pretty much it, how do I proceed from this point (same picture from TLDR)?
Thanks for your help, this sub has been very helpful and nice <3
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