I do have an iMac with 3TB fusion drive, dated december 2013.
Can I install Windows via Bootcamp and create a data drive accessible by OSX and Windows?
If yes, what is the correct order of working?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
A Fusion drive setup can only have three prtitions, two of which are your Mac and Recovery partitions. You can create a third but no more.
Hello Mike,
Thanks for your answer and excuse me for my late reply. I had some problems with installing El Capitan. Bluetooth connections with 3rd party appliances (Philips headphone) showed to be not feasible with El Capitan. It worked with Yosemite.
For patitioning I recently contacted Apple Support and they informed me that making 3 partitions (OSX, Data and Bootcamp) is feasible. Now I have confincting answers.
Any suggestions?
Dick Ve
Three partitions are indeed possible. The first is your Recovery Partition. The second is your Mac OS X boot partition. The third could be a Windows partition. What you want to do is to create a fourth partition and fusion drives can't do that.
OK, that is clear. Thanks for your answer. I was hoping that on top of having 1) a boot partition, 2) recovery partition and 3) a bootcamp partition a 4) data (logical) partition accessible by OSX and Windows would be possible. Apparently this is not possible, unless you remove the recovery partition, but from what I learned this is not supported by Apple.
I do have an iMac with 3TB fusion drive. Can I install both Windows via Bootcamp and a data drive accessible by OSX and Windows?
