NickRiley Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hi all, I've been playing with Mac OS X on normal PCs for quite a few years already and never had any serious issues. Until recently I was having Yosemite installed on first HDD (GPT) and Windows 8.1 installed on second HDD (MBR), the Mac HDD was set as primary and dual-booting with Chameleon without any issues. I have decided to buy myself an SSD (Samsung 840 EVO, 250GB) and install on in Windows, Mac and also leave about 100GB free space for a 3rd partition. SSD has a GPT partition table, first installed Windows and then Yosemite, no issues and was able to dual boot. The problem is I simply could not format the third partition in EXFAT (or any other format) so it would be visible in both systems. If I was formating it under Yosemite, Windows wouldn't see it nor I could mount it, while trying to format it in Windows the system was pushing me to covert my partitions table to a dynamic one (tried once and broke everything). I've tried the other way around - first installing Mac and then Windows, the result was more or less the same. Wither I was breaking one of the systems or I would end up having both but loosing the additional space. I know that both systems create additional hidden drives, Windows, 2 or 3 and Mac need an additional one as well. I need an advise and maybe an easy guide how can I achieve the following: 1 SSD (GPT): Partition 1: Windows (80GB) Partiton 2: Yosemite (60GB) Partition 3: Media (EXFAT, ~110GB) I still can install Mac on HDD, but once I saw how quick it is on the SSD, I'll fight to achieve what I want Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Read this: Beginners guide to UEFI Triple/Dual boot OS X, Windows and Linux (Kali) on an single true-gpt ssd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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