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UEFI Clover dual boot Windows & OS X El Capitan - Can't Install Windows

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So when I do the dd command in terminal to make the thumb drive it results in a drive that doesn't have an efi partition.

HackPro:~ SpOnkey$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Captain 249.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS 1.0 TB disk1s1
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *7.8 GB disk2

disk2 is the thumb drive, but there is only one partition, no efi. The iso I got from microsoft is only 4.41gb, so I know there is space. I am doing all i can with reading multiple articles, but I cant seem to find the commands to create a partition for EFI (if necessary)
 
So I managed to reformat the drive and correctly do the dd command on only disk2s2 instead of just disk2 (oops!). I then mounted the efi and put clover on via 3 different methods. Using the Clover installer linked on the site, was the one that worked. Once I got it to boot, the only boot options I had were for the target drive. No option to boot to the Windows 10 iso I put on the drive. Not sure where to go next. Why is it so hard to make a USB drive that can boot on a Mac? I wish there was an equivalent to Rufus for Mac. I even tried using VirtualBox, VMWare, and Parallels, but each had their own issues that wouldn't let me succeed.
Anyone have any ideas other than finding a friend with a PC to us Rufus or the Windows Media Creation Tool? I just moved and don't really know many people here yet. I'd much prefer to get this done on my Mac.
 
sponkey21 said:
So I managed to reformat the drive and correctly do the dd command on only disk2s2 instead of just disk2 (oops!). I then mounted the efi and put clover on via 3 different methods. Using the Clover installer linked on the site, was the one that worked. Once I got it to boot, the only boot options I had were for the target drive. No option to boot to the Windows 10 iso I put on the drive. Not sure where to go next. Why is it so hard to make a USB drive that can boot on a Mac? I wish there was an equivalent to Rufus for Mac. I even tried using VirtualBox, VMWare, and Parallels, but each had their own issues that wouldn't let me succeed.
Anyone have any ideas other than finding a friend with a PC to us Rufus or the Windows Media Creation Tool? I just moved and don't really know many people here yet. I'd much prefer to get this done on my Mac.
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