I bought a 13" Mid-2013 MacBook Air just after they came out (in Australia). I then proceeded to wipe OS X completely and install Windows 8.1 on a GUID partition, booting under UEFI.
It took many hours of screaming at the computer in frustration, but eventually it worked.
However, I've just been told by my tutors at uni that the subjects I'm currently studying require OS X unavoidably. Sure, I could just use the uni computers to do my work, but I'd much rather be able to work from home as well, and use my MacBook instead of the 5-year-old iMacs they provide.
So my question is: What would be the most painless way of getting OS X back on to my MacBook?
I'm currently creating a system image of my Windows partition and I was thinking of using OS X Internet Recovery to wipe the HDD completely, create a 15 GB partition for OS X and install it, then recover my system image to a partition taking up the rest of my HDD space. But a few questions spring to mind:
- Will I have to ensure that Windows is the first partition on the disk?
- What about the EFI partition/s needed by (both?) OSes?
- And the system recovery partitions?
I'll keep going with my current plan until it either fails or I get a response from one of you lovely folks advising otherwise.