raymondfromwakefield
Level 1
(4 points)
Q: forming windows partition on iMac
I have used Disc utilities to form a new partition on my hard drive. It was all one partition and is 4 TB in size. I wanted a small windows partition to be able to use some other software. I managed to split the partition and it is now 3.95TB for the iMac and the other partition is 50Gm and is formatted as MS_DOS (FAT). How can I use this partition to give me windows or do I have to use bootcamp and after the partitioning reinstall my os system and then install windows.
Thanks for any help even you confirm that it cannot be done the way I am trying.
Motion 4, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Loner T
Level 7
(24,738 points)
You now have a Time Machine backup.
1. Re-Boot into Internet Recovery using Command+Opt+R - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support .
2. In Recovery Console, use Disk Utility and erase your entire internal drive.
3. Split the disk into two partitions. The first one should be FAT and choose a size (recommendations is about 60GB+) that you want for Windows. The second partition will Mac OSX Extended (Journaled).
4. Restore your TM Backup to the second partition created in step 3.
5. Boot from this OSX installation on the internal disk. Verify that it works properly and your files are in place.
6. Burn your Windows ISO file to a physical DVD, if necessary - OS X El Capitan: Burn CDs and DVDs .
7. Boot from this DVD and install Windows in the FAT partition from step 3.
