Going Bald
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Hi Going Bald,
It's been awhile since I've had a problem like this, likely 6 or 7 Hackintosh builds back. I'm hoping because you know more than anyone about problems like I just ran across you can help.
I just built a Z97x-UD3H with a Haswell 4770 cpu and an M.2 Boot drive for OSX using Clover choosing UEFI over Legacy in the Unibeast USB stick creation choices. The OSX with Clover works like a charm, the total install took me less than an hour.
I disconnected the M.2 drive and installed Windows 10 on a Samsung SSD plugged into a Sata port, I installed Windows 10 from a CD deleting two partitions that were on the Samsung SSD from a prior Windows 7 build and letting Windows 10 do it's partitioning and formatting. All went smoothly and I was able to boot into Windows without a problem. I then hooked up the M.2 drive and booted successfully into Clover. I'm able to access the OSX drive without a problem.
In addition to the OSX drive, two NTFS partitions were created visible on the Clover boot loader screen. If I try to boot into either one, I just get a blinking dash at the top left of the screen and Windows does not boot.
In bios I made my first boot device UEFI OSX and then the Windows drive second in the boot order.
Apparently I'm missing something that more often than not is simple for someone who has faced it before but not so much when it is the first time faced. That is the case here. I've only been using Clover recently as I'm rebuilding all our machines from scratch with El Capitan. I'm a bit lost after probably 6 years of Chimera experience starting with P55 motherboards and now I"m requesting and need your help.
Thanks in advance.
If you installed Clover UEFI instead of Legacy then Win10 has to be installed UEFI also. If you only have two NTFS icons in clover selection screen then you probably installed Win10 in Legacy mode.
I would preformat the Win10 drive in OS X disk utility as if I were going to install OS X. In the Win10 installer then delete the OS X partition only to make it free space and select that free space to install Win10 and then let the installer format it and create partitions as required.
Boot your build and hit the function hot key to select a boot device. When you get the list, select the UEFI DVD-RW Windows 10 install DVD to install Windows.