I've posted this on the Tonymac forums as well, but I thought I'd stick it up here too. The more help, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
So, today I got the parts to build my new Yosemite/Windows 8.1 dual boot system, and it's turned out to be a fair bit more problematic than I bargained for.
Here's the parts list -
Gigabyte Z97x Gaming 7 motherboard Intel Core i54690K Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Gigabyte GTX760 Windforce Kingston 240GB SSD (Intended as Windows boot drive) Western Digital 2TB Black HDD (for OSX) Fractal Design Define R4 case Seasonic 620W modular power supply
So, the hardware install was finicky at points (grazed a knuckle here and there...trying to install wee black cables on a black motherboard inside a black case on a gloomy rainy morning was fun...), but I got through it, the system POSTed fine and I set about installing Windows 8.1 onto the SSD. That went without a hitch, installed some drivers, ran Ninite, did a Windows Update, all set for eventually getting my recording software, instruments, session files and Steam on there (the Windows side is purely for games and Cakewalk Sonar).
Then, I grab my Unibeast Yosemite thumb drive I'd prepared the night before and set about installing OSX onto the magnetic drive (I would've loved to have OSX on a big enough SSD so that I could run Migration Assistant and have everything transfer over like magic, but my budget didn't quite stretch that far, so a hard drive it was). A few teething troubles getting the install to run (good old -x graphicsenabler=no with one DIMM in the mobo to the rescue) and then a boot0 error which I managed to fix with a bit of googling led me to having Yosemite running reasonably well.
This is where things get weird.
Y'see, I was thinking this was going to be much like the system I'd been running for a few years (P55, i3, GT640). I'd ran Win7 on that for a couple of years, then I decided to try to Hackintosh it after I decided to not replace it with an iMac, and it worked pretty flawlessly. So, I did what I did on that machine with this new one - get Windows running on one drive, then Hackintosh on the other, change the boot order so that the Mac drive with Chameleon/Chimaera was booting first and bob's yer uncle.
However, after the Yosemite install, when I tried to boot back into windows it threw up a boot error screen, telling me I had to repair the installation using the install disc. Tried that, no dice with the auto-repair functions on the Windows install disc, so I decide 'bugger it, I'll just format the drive and reinstall windows clean again'. 'I'm sorry' said the Windows install disc's disc formatting utility, 'we can't create a partition, please see the install logs'.
So, more googling for the 'we can't create a partition' error. Find a fix using the command-line DISKPART function. THAT doesn't work either, same error messages. I go back into OSX and reformat the SSD to HFS, that works without a hitch, so I'm scratching my head. Try reformatting the now HFS drive back into NTFS on the Windows install disc again, same error message pops up again. 'We can't create a partition...'
And to cap it all, now Yosemite is freezing every so often and it occasionally doesn't want to boot.
I get the feeling I've just pissed a grand away. Help me, guys.
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