High Sierra but no it's OS E Journaled? Also windows 7 won't install

[inck243]

Hi,

I have a few issues that I'm hoping to get through with your help.

The first is that I bought a brand new SSD and installed it on my 2011 iMac in the second SATA spot. I formatted the drive with a 500gb partition for osx (os extended) and a 500gb partition for Windows 7 (exFat). Then I installed High Sierra but when I use disk utility to see the OSX partition, it's still in OS Extended (Journaled). Should I reformat and choose APFS?

I have a windows 7 Ultimate DVD that I'm able to boot from but when I go to install windows 7 on the 2nd partition that I formatted to exFat, windows 7 installer says it can't install to that partition because its HFS. I "format" the partition and it changes it to NTFS but still won't let me install on that partition.

Would I fix this by reformatting the entire SSD as MBR and then making one partition AFIS and the other exFat?

 

[chscag]

I have a windows 7 Ultimate DVD that I'm able to boot from but when I go to install windows 7 on the 2nd partition that I formatted to exFat, windows 7 installer says it can't install to that partition because its HFS. I "format" the partition and it changes it to NTFS but still won't let me install on that partition.

I'm assuming that you're not using Boot Camp? I don't believe you can install Windows on a partition that it "sees" as a secondary partition. Windows by default only installs on an internal primary partition. There are work arounds so maybe someone else can offer a solution.

 

[inck243]

I'm assuming that you're not using Boot Camp? I don't believe you can install Windows on a partition that it "sees" as a secondary partition. Windows by default only installs on an internal primary partition. There are work arounds so maybe someone else can offer a solution.

I’m not because when I put in the DVD bootcamp can’t recognize that it has both x64 and X86-64 and I guess it doesn’t know how to let me choose.

I installed windows 7 with a usb on my MacBook somehow but I forget how I did that.

thanks for the reply. Oh also — do you think my osx 13 is not taking advantage of APFS since it says it’s still formatted journaled? Can I do something about that ?

*** EDIT *** never mind, I successfully converted it by restarting in recovery mode, opened disk utility, unmounted the SSD iMac OSX partition and then up top was able to push edit > convert to APFS