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1. #Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage how to#
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3. #Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage manual#
4. #Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage windows 10#

#Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage windows 10#

If you'd like to install Windows 10 in a dual boot configuration on the same drive as El Capitan, follow these additional steps.

#Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage how to#

Here is a good guid on how to set up dual boot on a single hard-drive SSD's are fairly inexpensive so 240gb or larger SSD's are recommended. However a rotational hard-drive works very slow so an SSD is recommended.

I have used dual boot on a hackintosh using a 500gb hard-drive with two partitions 250gb. One partition of each OS ( Sierra and Windows-10 ). In my Macbook pro I use 1 500gb SSD with two partitions ( 250gb. I use 2 ( 120gb SSD's ) one for each OS ( Windows-10 and OS-X ). With the DiskPart command "select disk" make sure you are selecting the HDD.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide To re-initialize the HDD using DiskPart, use this procedure. When you install the HDD, you will have to use the F12 Boot Menu to boot from the SSD.

If you disconnect the HDD and everything works, at some point you will need to re-install the HDD so that you can re-initialize it to use as additional storage. If you did all of this in this order you should be fine. Next, when you cloned the HDD to the SSD, the SSD should have the AHCI drivers. It appears that you changed the Windows installation on the HDD to AHCI by running this procedure. So Windows is installed on the HDD in RAID mode. In the BIOS, SATA Operation is set to RAID (by Dell). In the Boot Menu, if you did not disconnect the HDD you would be presented with a choice of booting from the SSD or the HDD. One other thing you could have done is to boot using F12 and select the SSD from the Boot Menu that appears. If you had use Samsung Data Migration software, one of the final steps after cloning is complete and your computer is shut down is to remove the Source Disk and connect the cloned Target Disk. You didn't say what software you used to clone the HDD to the SSD. Who buys a high performance computer that locks you into the seller's pre-selected RAID configuration? The tech couldn't tell me where that was pointed out for buyers.

#Dual boot ssd windows mac with secondary drive for storage manual#

I even read the service manual before I purchased. No where in any sales documentation, did it say this ships in some sort of RAID-only configuration. Couldn't believe his information was accurate. Have wasted hours trying to get this to work. I'm reading all over this board about people who are doing EXACTLY what I want to do. WHAT? They wanted to charge me to set it up as a single drive SSD, and said the factory HDD won't work any longer. They said I can't set it up like I want because the system is configured at the factory as RAID and simply won't work the way I want it to. I right-clicked it to bring it online, and it was assigned Drive letter OS E: I can see in File Explorer, it's an exact copy of OS C: (the factory HDD)Ĭalled Tech Support for help. In Disk Management, SSD (Disk 1) was listed as offline because (I assumed) it's in conflict with the HDD (Disk 0). Ran Samsung Magician Software to set up the SSN, updated the driver. Read on this board how to change it to AHCI by others who have done what I'm trying to do. ran into a problem because the system was configured as RAID. Dell technical support is telling me I can't set it up that way. Want to make the SSD the boot drive and the factory HDD storage drive, like so many people on the board. I'm trying to add a 1tb Samsung NVMe M2 970EVO SSD. Just bought an 8930 i9 with the standard 1 tb 7200rpm HDD.