Installed El Capitan & Windows 10 multi boot successfully - I want to clean up the clover boot loade

Hey there, as the title says I managed to figure out a newbie how to install El Capitan on my custom built PC. I used the new technique with clover.

As soon as that was installed, I unplugged the SSD plugged in another SSD where my windows 10 OS will go. I burned the Windows 10 ISO onto a dvd and used an external drive to install it onto a fresh, clean SSD.

Now I'm not having any problems I think, everything is working fine! I can select either El Capitan or Windows 10 as soon as i switch on my PC, however I feel i may be either missing a step or done something wrong as I am presented with far too many options on the bootloader -

See the pic:



The first icon says: Boot windows from recovery
The second icon says: Boot windows from EFI
The third icon says: Boot windows from
The fourth icon says: Boot Microsoft EFI boot menu from EFI
The fifth icon says: Boot Mac OS X from El Capitan
The sixth icon says: Boot recovery from recovery HD

Now after I installed windows I didn't have a clue which one to pick, eventually the icon that works is "Boot Microsoft EFI boot menu from EFI"

I don't have a clue what the others are, apart from OS X obviously.

What I am asking is how do I clean this mess up?

I just want two options, windows or Mac OS just like I had on my old system when I followed the guide "[Guide] Dual Booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8 "
Any tips would be welcome - Thanks!

tind3r said:

What I am asking is how do I clean this mess up?

I just want two options, windows or Mac OS just like I had on my old system when I followed the guide "[Guide] Dual Booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8 "
Any tips would be welcome - Thanks!

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You use custom entries for the icons you do not want and hide them - see http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration/GUI#Hide and the Custom Entries section right after it.

This is most easily done with Clover Configurator under the GUI tab

Hello, I also setup the OSX el capitan and WIN10 with two separate hard drive. However, the clover is not able to boot up the WIN10. Do you partition the hard drive of WIN10 with GPT ?

orimeow said:

Hello, I also setup the OSX el capitan and WIN10 with two separate hard drive. However, the clover is not able to boot up the WIN10. Do you partition the hard drive of WIN10 with GPT ?

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To boot Win10 from Clover on a UEFI system you must install Win10 UEFI on a GPT formatted drive.

Going Bald said:

To boot Win10 from Clover on a UEFI system you must install Win10 UEFI on a GPT formatted drive.

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Is there an official thread I should be looking at to install Windows 10 onto a separate hard drive AFTER I have successfully installed OS X on a different hard drive using Clover? I want to make sure I do this right

surferdude said:

Is there an official thread I should be looking at to install Windows 10 onto a separate hard drive AFTER I have successfully installed OS X on a different hard drive using Clover? I want to make sure I do this right

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No official thread - just common sense.
If OS X is already installed, disconnect the drive. This prevents accidents and Windows installer trying to install files on the OS X drive.
Connect the Windows drive to the lowest numbered SATA port (P0 or P1, depending on UEFI)
With Windows installer in the USB port, boot the machine and hit the function hot key that allows you to select a boot device.
Select the UEFI Windows install option
Install Windows as you usually would, following the dierctions from Microsoft.
Once installed, update it until no more updates are available.
Install antivirus suite if desired, or use the one provided by Microsoft.
Shutdown. Reconnect the OS X drive, boot to UEFI and set the OS X drive as first in BBS boot order. Save&exit, continue boot. At Clover screen select OS X or "Boot Microsoft EFI from EFI" icon to boot an OS.

tind3r said:

What I am asking is how do I clean this mess up?

I just want two options, windows or Mac OS just like I had on my old system when I followed the guide "[Guide] Dual Booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8 "
Any tips would be welcome - Thanks!

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My solution was to deselect legacy drives on the scan portion of Clover Configurator. Now I only have the last 3 options you have showing at the clover boot menu:
Boot Microsoft EFI boot menu from EFI
Boot Mac OS X from El Capitan
Boot recovery from recovery HD
My system is a Dell 8700 XPS with windows 10 installed on a SATA drive and OS X El Capitan on a SSD.