Sorry if in wrong topic
I love the mac because of the hardware.When i had my bootcamp partition i hardly used mac osx.I deleted the windows partition and looking to install ot again. I don't need mac os x. The 2 os i need is windows and linux
P.S I don't have recovery hd anymore,but i can use internt recovrey.
I also have refind
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Sorry if in wrong topic
Deleting Mac OS X is not recommended and can cause more trouble in the future. Why not keep Mac OS X and just reduce the partition that Mac OS X is on and run Windows through Bootcamp.
Yes, you can. Frankly you can just startup Mac from the Windows DVD and install it without Mac OS. Windows 7 and 8 are compatible with EFI.
http://superuser.com/questions/50841/can-you-run-only-windows-on-a-mac
Safe to fommart mac harddrive as MBR only
Can i delete the mac partition in windows?
Sorry if im spelling things wrong or have bad english. I am in a hurry!
Delete everything and install Windows, you won't be able to (easily) reclaim the space otherwise. BUT. You will have no way to install firmware updates for the Mac if you use Windows only.
Why not buy a Windows machine for Windows?
And for your own sake ...... Don't Hurry.
I would not do this "in a hurry". Too many bad things that could need fixed but OSX needed to fix them. You need to investigate this fully before doing it.
ilovemac wrote:
The 2 os i need is windows and linux
You need minimal OS X on the machine and a EFI partition, but the OS X partition can be tiny and the Windows partition huge.
If you install Linux you BEST know exactly what your doing, and if your asking here you most certainly do not know computers well enough to handle the complexity of installing Linux, a non-supported operating system by Apple, onto a Mac.
I very highly suggest you use VirtualBox in either Windows/BootCamp or OS X to run Linux, then practice installing Linux on PC's and learn everything how a Mac and computers work before even attempting direct installing Linux on a Mac, then do so first on a spare Mac, not your newest one.
Apple does not provide hardware drivers, so someone will have to provide these for you to use with Linux, usually not so on newer Mac's as not that many people have Mac or are competent enough to provide drivers.
Also Mac's have sort of fallen out of favor with geeks because Apple is moving towards a more restrictive enviroment from outside sources of software and alternate operating systems. Open Source software depends upon machines being open to user modification and Apple is moving away from that entirely.
It might be you were enticed to install Linux by someone, but their objective may be is for you to brick your machine's firmware because you don't know yet what your doing.
You can install Linux (Mint is the best for newbies) into VirtualBox and learn all about it, without the risk, all free.
Plan A:
1.Delete EVERYTHING on mac os x
2. mac os x partition to minium for for updates
3.install windows,linux,freebsd
and windows can be on a gpt drive,right? hopefully linux and freebsd,too can be on a gpt drive.
IF not I need mbr
perfomance in virtual box is poor
i know how computers work.
Sell my mac on ebay and buy a pc because geeks don't want the mac?
i i think i metioned freebsd too
I suggest that you find out exactly what you need to do before you do it.
1 word: WRONG. why? i looked somewhere i can format the WHOLE DRIVE in mbr and intall windows,it says
the mac hardware and look.
And how do you expect to install EFI updates if you don't have OS X to run the updates?
Can i remove mac os x and have windows ONLY on macbookpro 9,2?
