Trouble resizing EFI partition

[TheMoose88]

Hello, I would like to resize my EFI partition as I am attempting to create a dual boot Hackintosh (I am referencing this guide). When I try to resize my EFI partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard, I am not able to. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I will include screenshots if it helps.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Well probem is the C partition is blocking it from getting bigger, You will have to move the C drive to the right to extent it.

[TheMoose88]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Well probem is the C partition is blocking it from getting bigger, You will have to move the C drive to the right to extent it.

Thank you for your swift reply, what do I need to do in order to move the C drive to the right?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheMoose88 said:

Thank you for your swift reply, what do I need to do in order to move the C drive to the right?

A tool like gparted can do this(maybe minitool can also, haven't used it.) You will need to shrink the c partition first too.

 

Also make sure you have a good backups first.

[TheMoose88]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

A tool like gparted can do this(maybe minitool can also, haven't used it.) You will need to shrink the c partition first too.

 

Also make sure you have a good backups first.

Thank you for your advice. Of course with my luck I finally figured it out. I had already shrunk the C previously to make room and had 301mb unallocated. I then right-clicked on the EFI partition and clicked extend partition. This then restarted my computer and extended the partition to 416mb. I still thank you for your help. Have a good night.

[SupaKomputa]

You have 2 drives, why don't you install each OS in each drive with each own bootloader.

That way when something mess up, troubleshooting is easier.

[TheMoose88]

5 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

You have 2 drives, why don't you install each OS in each drive with each own bootloader.

That way when something mess up, troubleshooting is easier.

That sounds like a great idea, but I think it may be above my expertise. Do you know of a guide that could help with this?

 

[SupaKomputa]

1 minute ago, TheMoose88 said:

be above my expertise

No it's not difficult. Don't look at it as setting up 'dual booting'.

Treat is as a single OS install.

If you already have windows installed, good, no need to do anything with the drive, keep it as vanilla as possible.

Back up the second drive, you will need wipe it clean.

Now unplug the windows HDD.

Follow the tutorial for installing hackintosh.

When youre done, replug windows hdd, and just select the boot drive in bios when booting.

Simple and clean.

Dual booting (on a single drive) especially Hackintosh is tricky, when something goes wrong with either OS,  it will be more time consuming to troubleshoot it then to do fresh install.

 

[TheMoose88]

18 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

No it's not difficult. Don't look at it as setting up 'dual booting'.

Treat is as a single OS install.

If you already have windows installed, good, no need to do anything with the drive, keep it as vanilla as possible.

Back up the second drive, you will need wipe it clean.

Now unplug the windows HDD.

Follow the tutorial for installing hackintosh.

When youre done, replug windows hdd, and just select the boot drive in bios when booting.

Simple and clean.

Dual booting (on a single drive) especially Hackintosh is tricky, when something goes wrong with either OS,  it will be more time consuming to troubleshoot it then to do fresh install.

 

Thank you for the advice. That sounds like a lot better of a solution than dual booting off of a single drive. My last question is there a way to set up something like Clover so I don't have to go into the Bios every single time I want to choose between each operating system?

[TheMoose88]

22 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

it's a system partition and only 100mb by default, you don't need (or want to) touch it because it barely takes any space and very critical system stuff that should never be touched.

I understand that, I have seen similar sentiment online. I was very careful when doing this so I did not destroy anything. I may end up not needing to use this space as I may just put MacOS onto the other operating system.

[SupaKomputa]

Well actually you can select boot drive faster by using shortcut.

On most modern BIOS, there's a shortcut to quick select the boot drive (usually displayed when you boot).

Mine is F9, yours maybe different.

Just press F9 and select the boot drive. Enter and boot.

 

Clover will be installed on the hackintosh drive.

It may detect windows drive so you can boot it from there too.

I recommend doing the 1st method than using clover to boot windows (since this is uefi).

[TheMoose88]

16 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Well actually you can select boot drive faster by using shortcut.

On most modern BIOS, there's a shortcut to quick select the boot drive (usually displayed when you boot).

Mine is F9, yours maybe different.

Just press F9 and select the boot drive. Enter and boot.

 

Clover will be installed on the hackintosh drive.

It may detect windows drive so you can boot it from there too.

I recommend doing the 1st method than using clover to boot windows (since this is uefi).

I did not even know that existed. I will try it out tomorrow to even see if it works. Either way I’m committing to two separate drives for the Hackintosh.

[SupaKomputa]

Yes, i hackintosh from snow leopard, so i know the pain.

When i found out this method, i wish i know it earlier.

[TheMoose88]

15 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yes, i hackintosh from snow leopard, so i know the pain.

When i found out this method, i wish i know it earlier.

Yes, thank you for guidance. It was pain trying to get the EFI to expand (as you can tell by my post), and it probably would be even more pain to get it to work from a single drive.

[SupaKomputa]

With uefi, even dual booting 2 separate windows 10 can be problematic as the OS can have direct access to bios and change the boot properties.

This is not a problem in legacy MBR boot as far as i know.