spidey123 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Hello everyone, so I have a 500GB SSD that I've been running macOS Mojave. Now the drive partition is set-up as APFS, can I still shrink the drive by 50-60 Gigabytes and then Install Windows 10? I tried earlier but I messed up severely. I used Rufus with WIN10.iso and it wouldn't allow me to install Windows on the Partition I created in OSX. In OSX I created a FAT32 parition for Windows. That didnt work and apparently your not suppose to do that in Disk Utility as it will mess up your drive. I didn't know that but now I know. Anyhow. I then formatted it as Mac OS Journaled and that also failed to allow WIN 10 installation. So I couldn't get Windows to install for some reason. To make things worse the EFI partition got corrupted and I could only boot OSX with my USB. I did end up fixing that with I believe (as I dont know for sure) using diskutil reformat. Then Clover finally reinstalled. So basically I'm back where I started and now I just need to figure out what type of Partition I need to create for Windows after Shrinking my APFS os partition down to allow for a second Partition. Maybe EXfat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 2, 2019 Administrators Share Posted June 2, 2019 Do not confuse disk partitioning and APFS container/volume management. What you want to do is: reduce your container size by 50-60GB create a new partition ad disk root and format it MSDOS (FAT) or ExFAT You'll then be able to install Win10 on that 2nd partition, knowing that you'll probably need to re-install Clover after to reconstruct your boot sector/EFI partition properly and be able to boot through Clover either partition/OS. There's absolutely no issue formatting a partition MSDOS (FAT) or ExFAT from Disk Utility under OS X/macOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 Thanks for the reply Herve. Ok well then I must have done something wrong when creating the Windows 10 image for the usb. This was exactly what i did yesterday and then Windows wouldn't allow me to install on the Partition I created. I guess I can give it another shot. What do you recommend for creating the USB image of Windows. I used Rufus. Maybe there is a better solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 2, 2019 Administrators Share Posted June 2, 2019 This is a Hackintosh site so not really the place to discuss Win10, distros or not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted June 2, 2019 Moderators Share Posted June 2, 2019 Format USB to Fat32 Extract content of ISO to USB Done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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