Does OSX care about the order of partitions?

[doynton]

I have a 10.2 MBP that uses hybrid mbr partition scheme.

At the moment I have these partitions: EFI, OSX, OSX recovery, Windows like this:

Can I change it to EFI, OSX recovery, OSX, Windows, New partition like this:

I want to swap OSX and recovery so I can make the EFI partition entry in the MBR partition table cover EFI and recovery and keep within the limit of 4 MBR partitions while having 5 GPT partitions.

Will this work? I don't need to see OS X Recovery partition while in Windows but I do want to be able to boot from it.

 

[doynton]

As I wasn't sure if Recovery could go before OSX I swapped OSX to the end and just ignored the recovery in the mbr partition table - works fine.

GPT partitons

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
  1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
  2          411648        49239767   23.3 GiB    0700  Windows10
  3        49501912       186220655   65.2 GiB    0700  Shared
  4       186482800       235708599   23.5 GiB    AF00  El Capitan
  5       235708600       236978135   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD

MBR partitions:

Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
  1                     1       411647   primary     0xEE
  2      *         411648     49239767   primary     0x07
  3              49501912    186220655   primary     0x07
  4             186482800    235708599   primary     0xAF

 

[dusk007]

You don't need MBR partitions anymore. Use Windows 10 it is all GPT now. Has been since Win 8 actually.

 

[doynton]

You don't need MBR partitions anymore. Use Windows 10 it is all GPT now. Has been since Win 8 actually.

It depends how old you mac is. I have to use mbr as mine is too old (late 2012 mbp).

 

[dusk007]

It depends on how old the Windows is you use not on how old the mac is. Unlike OSX Windows 8/10 actually runs better on old hardware than 7 or really old Vista.

 

[doynton]

Rubbish. EFI 1.1 vs 2.