Completely removing Mac OS?

[Faux Carnival]

Hello, I have a 128GB Macbook Air. I use Windows on my device almost all the time. Lately, I have been having problems with insufficient storage. So, is there a way that I can remove Mac OS X completely?

Thanks.

 

[dyt1983]

edit: To remove personally identifying info not relevant to the conversation.

 

[Faux Carnival]

As long as you are using Windows 7 or newer, you can just reinstall it and use the whole thing for Windows. You should make a Boot Camp drive USB stick though so you can reinstall the drivers for your MacBook in Windows.

No, I can't. When I try to partition the drive using Boot Camp, I have to allocate a minimum of 20 GB for OS X. That annoys me.

 

[maflynn]

No, I can't. When I try to partition the drive using Boot Camp, I have to allocate a minimum of 20 GB for OS X. That annoys me.

Bootcamp is executed in OS X, so it cannot give you everything and repartition the drive at the same time.

Its possible, did you try to repartition the drive in the Windows setup where you select the volume to install windows?

 

[Surrat]

I dont know if this works on a MBA, but I installed win81 in native EFI mode on my mac pro 5,1 without needing to setup the partition with bootcamp. OSX is not needed, and the only part of bootcamp I use is the device drivers for windows.

 

[maflynn]

I dont know if this works on a MBA, but I installed win81 in native EFI mode on my mac pro 5,1 without needing to setup the partition with bootcamp. OSX is not needed, and the only part of bootcamp I use is the device drivers for windows.

Did you run into any driver issues, I thought a stumbled upon a thread or two where some people ran into audio driver issues going that route.

 

[yjchua95]

Did you run into any driver issues, I thought a stumbled upon a thread or two where some people ran into audio driver issues going that route.

Audio driver issues only crop up on Macs that don't support the UEFI 2.0 standard.

All Haswell (and later) Macs support the UEFI 2.0 standard. Ivy Bridge and earlier require CSM-BIOS.

 

[Surrat]

All the driver issues and sound problems I have read about when using windows in EFI mode were on mac laptops. My mac pro 5,1 had no issues at all, everything worked perfectly, I installed up to date video drivers, and also a newer audio driver. No problems at all.

I dont know how well it will or if it will work on a macbook air, I'm just saying mac pro 5,1 + win81pro is great.

 

[yjchua95]

All the driver issues and sound problems I have read about when using windows in EFI mode were on mac laptops. My mac pro 5,1 had no issues at all, everything worked perfectly, I installed up to date video drivers, and also a newer audio driver. No problems at all.

I dont know how well it will or if it will work on a macbook air, I'm just saying mac pro 5,1 + win81pro is great.

Windows in UEFI mode has totally zero problems if installed on Macs that support the UEFI 2.0 standard (which means Haswell and later).

Ivy Bridge and earlier Macs have all sorts of hell trying to get Windows in UEFI to work, because these Macs still rely on CSM-BIOS.

 

[panzer06]

Audio driver issues only crop up on Macs that don't support the UEFI 2.0 standard.

All Haswell (and later) Macs support the UEFI 2.0 standard. Ivy Bridge and earlier require CSM-BIOS.

Windows in UEFI mode has totally zero problems if installed on Macs that support the UEFI 2.0 standard (which means Haswell and later).

Ivy Bridge and earlier Macs have all sorts of hell trying to get Windows in UEFI to work, because these Macs still rely on CSM-BIOS.

Just stumbled on this issue with my 2011 iMac. I hadn't used bootcamp in years (before EFI) and had no idea the 2011s were not fully EFI compatible. I guess I'll just get an external USB soundcard.

Cheers,