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Dual Booting (OS X on SSD, Win8 on HDD/Mac Storage)

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Okay so I have OS X installed and running on my SSD. Now i would like to install Window's 8 so I can play games through it except there is 1 catch. I bought a 1tb 7200rpm internal hdd but I need to split up that drive for storage also. So in theory I would like to take 500gb for windows only and the other 500gb for OS X storage (movies, music, etc on the Mac side). I have looked through the forums but I really can't find exactly what I'm wanting to do.

I'm a beginner so please if you can help with a step by step guide it would help so much.
 
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littlepooch21 said:
Okay so I have OS X installed and running on my SSD. Now i would like to install Window's 8 so I can play games through it except there is 1 catch. I bought a 1tb 7200rpm internal hdd but I need to split up that drive for storage also. So in theory I would like to take 500gb for windows only and the other 500gb for OS X storage (movies, music, etc on the Mac side). I have looked through the forums but I really can't find exactly what I'm wanting to do.

I'm a beginner so please if you can help with a step by step guide it would help so much.
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Partition it in two parts in Disk Utility under OS X. Make one partition HFS+J (for OS X storage) and another MS-DOS/FAT-32 as the Windows install target. Launch the Win8 installer in legacy mode (non-UEFI mode) and install to that partition (you will have to choose Custom install and format it as NTFS via the Win8 installer).
 
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Partition it in two parts in Disk Utility under OS X. Make one partition HFS+J (for OS X storage) and another MS-DOS/FAT-32 as the Windows install target. Launch the Win8 installer in legacy mode (non-UEFI mode) and install to that partition (you will have to choose Custom install and format it as NTFS via the Win8 installer).
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okay so i understand everything but i don't know how to launch the Win8 installer in legacy mode (non-UEFI mode)
 
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littlepooch21 said:
okay so i understand everything but i don't know how to launch the Win8 installer in legacy mode (non-UEFI mode)
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Every BIOS is different, but you can see the difference when devices are listed for possible booting. If in doubt, turn UEFI mode off.
 
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