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Hackintosh with Windows (Question about partitioning 2 internal hard drives!)

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Hello community,
To introduce myself little bit, I'm a semi-professional video editor who also enjoys playing PC games.

Currently I own late-2012 27" iMac and it's getting outdated and I can't really upgrade this computer. (I also have bootcamp for gaming purposes as gaming in MacOS isn't the best option)

So I've been spending some time looking at the hackintosh options and I noticed that bootcamp doesn't work but with Clover it is possible to dual-boot, and there are some YouTube videos out there but some seems outdated and it seems like the setup process is different depending on the build.
(I have not built a PC before so I'm not completely comfortable with all the terms in the setup, but I'm not lazy I do a lot of research and I'm willing to learn to make it work)

And also, one thing I couldn't find was if I can partition SSD and HDD for two platforms (SSD will be OS drives for Windows 10 and OS X El Captian, so I know they will work), if I make a partition in HDD as one of them as Mac OS Extended, and other one as Windows ExFat(Something like that?) will they automatically be usable in OS X El Captian and Windows 10 without any setup?

I may have not made much sense, if you need clarification of what I'm asking please let me know, I want to do a lot of research before I make the decision of making a Hackintosh

And here is a build I came up with looking at different Hackintosh community websites

Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower
Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA1151 Intel Z170 ATX DDR4 Motherboards GA-Z170X-UD5
Processor: Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151
GFX: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Overclocked GDDR5 Pcie Video Graphics Card, 4GB
Power Supply: Corsair RM750, 750 Watt
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 DIMM 288-Pin
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
HDD: WD Black 3TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch
Wi-Fi Adapter: TP-LINK N900 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter

Thank you for spending your time on reading the post, please share your knowledge.
 
BIOS options:
Update to latest bios revision.
In BIOS setting select:
1) Default boot options
and then select
1) Secure boot = Disable
2) Display post boot messages = On
3) SATA drive options = AHCI ON

For Single boot computer. You can use a 60gb. of larger hard-drive or SSD.

OS-X only uses about 15gb of disk space.

For Dual Boot with OS-X and MS Windows 7 or 10
Used Clover boot loader.
However also works with Chimera and Chameleon boot loaders.

You can use a single 250gb. or larger hard-drive with two 125gb. partitions. (1 partition OS-X journaled ) (2 partition Dos ).
Install OS-X on first partition with Clover boot loader and then install MS-Windows on second partition with NO added bootloader.

Or
Use 2 boot drives or SSD's ( Samsung EVO 850 120gb. SSD ) and 2 storage drives ( Seagate Barracuda 1tb. )
1 of each for OS X and MS Windows.

Install OS X on boot drive #1 with Clover boot loader
Make Drive #1 your primary boot drive.
From Clover boot loader you can select to boot OS X or MS Windows.

Installation went Vanilla.

For Dual boot System install Operating systems on 1 drive at a time and then attach all the hard-drives last.
e.g
1) Install OS X on boot drive #1 with Clover bootloader. Then remove drive.
2) Install MS Windows on boot drive #2
3) Attach all the drives
4) Make OS-X your primary boot drive in bios.
5) Partition and format your storage drives. 1 for OS X and 1 for Windows.

Just follow the tonymac installation guides
http://www.tonymacx86.com/basics/104542-im-new-everything-where-do-i-start.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html


Thank you sir!
These are good informations that I was looking for

And also, will my build work?
Is there anything that I'm missing? or to upgrade for the machine to run?
 
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