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Hackintosh to WIndows..how?

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I have a hackintosh running on yosemite and I want to turn it to a normal windows running pc. I don't mind deleting everything . How do I do this?
 
arykk said:
I have a hackintosh running on yosemite and I want to turn it to a normal windows running pc. I don't mind deleting everything . How do I do this?
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Purchase a Window install DVD and boot with it. Select your HDD/SSD at the first screen, click on advanced, click on each partition on the drive and delete it. Click on format, click on continue and install.
 
HackInBuild said:
Is there any way I can install Windows 10 on my hackintosh (as this thread suggests) but without loosing any of the data on my drive?
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This thread is to destroy OS X install and go back to Windows. Of course you will destroy everything on the drive when you do that.
 
After I format and install Windows, do I have to change anything on the BIOS or anywhere ??

I'm selling my desktop Hackintosh and the buyer will be using Windows (he is my buddy so I want to give him a working windows machine).

At the moment I'm backing up everything onto a few external drives and just want to fully format the OS drive to install Windows 8.

Thank you
 
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henriquevfx said:
After I format and install Windows, do I have to change anything on the BIOS or anywhere ??

I'm selling my desktop Hackintosh and the buyer will be using Windows (he is my buddy so I want to give him a working windows machine).

At the moment I'm backing up everything onto a few external drives and just want to fully format the OS drive to install Windows 8.

Thank you
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Changes to BIOS should be made before installing Windows, not after.

If it will never be used for OS X, boot to BIOS and set optimized defaults, save&exit and continue boot.

Whether you make any other changes depends on if you want to customize the Windows install - UEFI boot only instead of Legacy for one thing - this may require a BIOS setting that is not default depending on your BIOS/UEFI
 
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