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- Mac mini Server 4,1 (2.66GHz Core2Duo CPU, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 500GB HD), iPhone SE 2nd gen (128GB)
Bootcamp, while it is installed by default on my machine (the one in my profile info, running macOS 10.12 Sierra), will not work correctly; every workaround lead to another brick wall, and eventually Windows itself still just refused to install on the Bootcamp partition (due to the GPT/MBR hybrid volume issue).
However, as my machine has the advantage of two HDDs (macOS is on disk1, while disk0 is currently an unused storage drive), I was wondering if I could safely wipe the other drive - after formatting it to MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFAT - and use the Windows 10 installer to format it as a bootable NTFS/GPT drive (assuming even that would work, it should as the computer itself meets the minimum specs) & then just boot into Windows (installing the Bootcamp drivers manually) by holding the Option key at bootup; or would that then supersede the macOS bootloader so that Windows became the default or even only bootable OS, and if that did happen would it be possible to restore macOS as the bootable OS by using Disk Utility on my reinstall USB stick to wipe the Windows disk (&, if necessary, reinstall macOS)?
Apologies for the mass of "What if?" questions, but there are a lot of possibilities for what could go wrong & I've found very little information on people attempting such things, assuming anyone ever has...
However, as my machine has the advantage of two HDDs (macOS is on disk1, while disk0 is currently an unused storage drive), I was wondering if I could safely wipe the other drive - after formatting it to MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFAT - and use the Windows 10 installer to format it as a bootable NTFS/GPT drive (assuming even that would work, it should as the computer itself meets the minimum specs) & then just boot into Windows (installing the Bootcamp drivers manually) by holding the Option key at bootup; or would that then supersede the macOS bootloader so that Windows became the default or even only bootable OS, and if that did happen would it be possible to restore macOS as the bootable OS by using Disk Utility on my reinstall USB stick to wipe the Windows disk (&, if necessary, reinstall macOS)?
Apologies for the mass of "What if?" questions, but there are a lot of possibilities for what could go wrong & I've found very little information on people attempting such things, assuming anyone ever has...