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Would it be possible to load the three big Operating systems (i.e. Windows 10, Mac OS, and Linux) onto a single system by putting each operating system on its own M.2 Drive? This is more of a question of is it possible and how rather than a question about whether or not its a 'good idea' as that typically involves the consideration of price.

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That would work, however you wouldn't be able to boot macOS on a non-Apple board with the others.

 

You have to mess around with a lot of BIOS settings to get it to work on a non-Apple board as it is, let alone allowing for booting Windows on it.

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Of course it's possible. Many dual-boot systems (2 OSes) only use 1 drive, so I think it's even possible to have 3 in a drive.

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17 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That would work, however you wouldn't be able to boot macOS on a non-Apple board with the others.

 

You have to mess around with a lot of BIOS settings to get it to work on a non-Apple board as it is, let alone allowing for booting Windows on it.

Drivers are available, but hackintosh is against community guidelines, so I can not provide any links. I also strongly don't acknowledge installing as there are not many drivers compatible with modern equipment.

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Ah I see, so basically it's not very feasible at the moment to do Hackintosh?

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On 13/05/2018 at 4:49 AM, Crunchy Dragon said:

That would work, however you wouldn't be able to boot macOS on a non-Apple board with the others.

 

You have to mess around with a lot of BIOS settings to get it to work on a non-Apple board as it is, let alone allowing for booting Windows on it.

not really, i got High sierra  using apple new APFS and windows dual booted very easily with minimal bios tweaks only changing VT-d a few boot flags

 

On 13/05/2018 at 6:02 AM, Atlas3802 said:

Ah I see, so basically it's not very feasible at the moment to do Hackintosh?

  depends on hardware really if its common intel stuff you should have no problem but i dont think clover (the boot loader most people use to dual boot OSX and windows) supports linux, but i might be wrong, 

 

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