How does mac install win8.1 dual system? Now, a lot of people are using Mac computer, some users also installed a dual system. But we all know that by bootcamp normal installation of dual systems, MAC only two partitions, respectively, Mac system disk and win system disk. What if you need to do more than one partition? The following small series for everyone to bring Mac installation win8.1 dual-system multiple partitions tutorial. The following is a detailed tutorial.
MAC installation win8.1 dual system
1. Copy the data from the original hard drive (the subsequent partition erases all data on the disk).
2. Start the computer, put the Mac OS to install U disk, press ALT to select the corresponding start U disk.
3. Select the Disk tool on the Tools menu to partition the entire hard drive: 1 The EFI Protection partition (hidden under OS X disk Tools, 200MB under Windows Disk Management), and the EFI partition is automatically created and hidden, The first three partitions any one partition for the MS-DOS file system, the disk utility knows you are going to make a gpt-mbr hybrid disk. He will automatically create an EFI partition and a master boot record for the MBR. 2) WIN8 D disk (Mac log type); 3) WIN8 e disk (Mac log type); 4) WIN8 C (MS-DOS format); 5 Mac OS (Mac log type).
4. The hard disk is divided into four zones (visible on disk, from top to bottom): Mac log type, Mac log type, Ms-dos,mac log type, "option" does not move, application.
5. Install Mac system, install Mac system to fourth partition (Mac log type), until the installation is complete.
6. An important step has come, this is also their own groping over, if this directly inserted into the WIN8 installation of USB disk installation if you choose to install the partition will appear Windows can not install to this partition, the selected disk has MBR partition table, on the EFI system, Windows can only install to GPT disk and so on error prompts, and the format is not good (my 840 is this way, do not know you are not), as for why is this, should be the Mac partition tool out of the FAT partition or MBR partition table of the old partition way, how to solve it? into a newly installed Mac system, go to the utility, turn on the disk utility, and remove the Win8 C disk, you hear me correctly, just point "-" to remove it, and then add it again, but format select free space, remember the free space partition size, easy to select the next installation partition, and then exit Disk Management, Reboot the computer. (who has a better solution don't forget to notify in time, thank you)
7. Start installing Windows 8, insert Windows 8 to install U disk, reboot system press ALT to select U start.
8. Select the partition of the time you have just created the available space partition, click New, OK, and then you can step by step smoothly installed WINDOWS8, do not choose the wrong, you can see the protection of the 200M partition and 2 unpartitioned 128M space, do not pipe it, cannot be deleted or merged.
9. Next, follow the installer step-by-step, reboot and press ALT to select "window" hard drive to complete the installation.
11. Install the bootcamp driver when Windows is complete.
12. Drive installation completed, and not as before into the Mac system to the previously divided WIN8 D disk and E disk format to Windows available FAT format, which will cause the partition table changes, windows8 not normal boot, 0xc000000e error, Ordinary PC can go through PE to repair the startup items, but suffer from no suitable for the use of the Mac PE system, also can not find the corresponding U disk mass production tools, so think of a workaround, is to install Paragon hfs+ for Windows, The latest version should be 10.0 to achieve the purpose of reading the MAC partition under Windows.