how to uninstall clover from a real Mac

[mdk11]

Hi Guys, coincidentally I am facing a similar thing, except my EFI volume looks slightly different; I have a Microsoft folder as well. Do I leave that in place along with APPLE (perhaps it is the BOOTCAMP partition)?

I mistakenly installed Clover_v2.5k_r5103.pkg on my Macbook running 10.14, and have not rebooted yet.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Hi Guys, coincidentally I am facing a similar thing, except my EFI volume looks slightly different; I have a Microsoft folder as well. Do I leave that in place along with APPLE (perhaps it is the BOOTCAMP partition)?

I mistakenly installed Clover_v2.5k_r5103.pkg on my Macbook running 10.14, and have not rebooted yet.

View attachment 461795

Remove:
Boot
Boot 64.efi
Clover
Clover64.efi

you installed windows back in 2018 right?

 

[mdk11]

you installed windows back in 2018 right?

Yes. Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[Gigamaxx]

Yes. Thanks for the quick reply!

Nice job opening up everything so the dates show. Should be good to go.

 

[jj662]

Careful, that Microsoft stuff is a virus that makes your machine start to not work...
Whatever drove you to put Windows on a Mac? Yikes...

 

[DescartesB4TheHorse]

LOL, I know the feeling, I've been there. Its ironic, with Hackintosh I'm used to crashing and burning , but with real Macs it gets scary. You can make a copy of your EFi file and store it on a USB, or get a spare SSD and install OS X with an EFI Partition as a bootable backup. It eases the tension if anything goes wrong, at least you have a backup drive for emergency.

lol apparently I’m not the only one killing time in lock-down by learning how to hackintosh..!

(Macintosh HD as the default install location is dangerous)

Does it need to be a backup from your specific computer, or can it be from another? I was thinking about copying my wife’s efi partition.

She has a 2015 macbook air, mine is 2017. I’m updating her computer to the most recent version of catalina so that our operating systems are the same, just in case.

I don’t recall seeing any apple files when i deleted my efi partition contents, but now I wonder if I panicked when I realized what I’d done. At the moment my partition is completely empty.

 

[Gigamaxx]

lol apparently I’m not the only one killing time in lock-down by learning how to hackintosh..!

(Macintosh HD as the default install location is dangerous)

Does it need to be a backup from your specific computer, or can it be from another? I was thinking about copying my wife’s efi partition.

She has a 2015 macbook air, mine is 2017. I’m updating her computer to the most recent version of catalina so that our operating systems are the same, just in case.

I don’t recall seeing any apple files when i deleted my efi partition contents, but now I wonder if I panicked when I realized what I’d done. At the moment my partition is completely empty.

Did you look in the trash Tab?

 

[DescartesB4TheHorse]

Ship's sailed on that. I'm pretty obsessive about emptying the trash. Could try data recovery, but that's a crapshoot. Do you think copying my wife's EFI won't work, or just think it's better not to take the risk if I don't have to?

 

[Gigamaxx]

Ship's sailed on that. I'm pretty obsessive about emptying the trash. Could try data recovery, but that's a crapshoot. Do you think copying my wife's EFI won't work, or just think it's better not to take the risk if I don't have to?

They are close in terms of years. If you do a software version update it will reflash a new one. It may not even be necessary to have one if the bios is flashed into the cmos.
You should check into a real Mac forum to see if it’s been covered before.

 

[jj662]

DescartesB4TheHorse
Don't reboot yet. It may be a one way trip. So I take it that you updated using "Clover Bootloader"?
Can you look in the root of your C drive and look if there is a subdirectory that was made by Clover by the name of "EFI backup"? A copy of the files you seek are in there. They have a timestamp of when you ran the program.
If the answer is yes, then run "Clover Configurator" and mount your now empty EFI. Copy the files in.