I have a late 2014 27" Retina iMac with 1 TB Fusion drive(128 GB SSD). I'm considering loading up a native install of Windows 10 and giving it a shot to see how I like it(I've been having some issues running Windows through the VM and wanted to try a native install or to see how doable it is). I had a few questions
Has anyone done it? If so how do you like it? Pros Cons?
I understand the fusion tech won't work with Windows but can you uncouple the drives so that Windows sees the 1 TB HD as a separate drive while in windows?
I have been looking at the below video for steps on how to do it but this is just for a single SSD, not fusion drive(also it's Windows 8.1, not 10)
In general the steps seems as follows.(I'm fine with wiping out my OSX installation and using this as a Windows only machine, I have nothing important on my computer at the moment as I just did a clean install of Sierra a couple days ago.)
Has anyone done it? If so how do you like it? Pros Cons?
I understand the fusion tech won't work with Windows but can you uncouple the drives so that Windows sees the 1 TB HD as a separate drive while in windows?
I have been looking at the below video for steps on how to do it but this is just for a single SSD, not fusion drive(also it's Windows 8.1, not 10)
In general the steps seems as follows.(I'm fine with wiping out my OSX installation and using this as a Windows only machine, I have nothing important on my computer at the moment as I just did a clean install of Sierra a couple days ago.)
- Have a bootable OSX Sierra USB drive incase I want to scrap everything and reinstall
- Put Windows 10 ISO on USB
- Download bootcamp drivers to USB
- Boot iMac into Windows 10 EFI USB Boot
- 'Leave the EFI partition and Delete the OSX partition'. This part I am unsure of with the Fusion drive. The part where it asks Where do you want to install Windows(similar to image below) I'm referencing the 7:40 marker of the video Can I format the 1 TB from this screen as a proper Windows NTFS partition? And then install Windows on the SSD part?
- Install windows
- Boot into windows and run the bootcamp drivers