Clean Windows 8 install on new Mac Pro (late 2013)

[panofish]

I have a new Mac Pro that I want to install windows 8.1 on. I will use my older mac pro for osx and on the new mac pro, I do not want any osx partitions.

When I boot with the option key pressed and pick my windows 8 thumb drive to install... I see 3 existing partitions.

200mb efi
465GB main partition
620mb osx recovery partition

Since I do not need osx on this hardware... can I delete all of these partitions and create a new single partition for windows 8.1?

Aside from making sure I have the windows 8 bootcamp drivers on another thumbdrive... what other considerations should I think about?

 

[satcomer]

You have a nMP and want to erase OS X and just use Windows 8.1?!

 

[panofish]

I know... blasphemy but my job involves windows only and I am a programmer / 3d modeler / renderer. I have nothing against osx... it's great... I just don't need it for most of the things I do.

It seems the easy option is to resize the osx partition to minimum size (maybe 10gb) and use bootcamp assistant to install windows 8.1 as a dual boot setup... but I prefer to use all the disk space if I can. I would like to know if anyone else has tried to clean install windows 8.1 on the new mac pro cylinder (late 2013) without any osx partition?

 

[glenthompson]

I would leave the recovery and eft partitions and get rid of the OSX partition. Makes it easier to install OSX when you see the error of your ways.

 

[panofish]

Bootcamp assistant allows no smaller than 42gb partition for osx and disk utility will allow no smaller than 34gb repartition for osx. My default osx install is using 23gb.

If I deleted some stuff... would either utility show a possibly smaller partition resize amount? What can I delete? iMovie is the biggest app at 2.7gb. If I trash it... can I later reinstall it if I decide to use it?