Tutorial to set up multi-boot of Windows, Mac and Linux using Clover and EasyUEFI. This tutorial will show how to manually install Clover to the EFI system partition and set Clover as the priority startup item with EasyUEFI. As a professional EFI system partition management software, EasyUEFI provides an EFI system partition Explorer, which can help you explore and write files to an EFI System Partition (ESP) in Windows.
Is there any other way we can install Clover to the ESP partition in Windows? The answer is yes, we recommend you to use EasyUEFI here. When we try to access an ESP partition that has been assigned a drive letter with diskpart, we will get the 'You don't currently have permission to access this folder.' error. In the newer version of Windows 10, we cannot copy Clover to the ESP partition even if we have used diskpart to assign a drive letter to the partition.
In earlier versions of Windows 10 and Windows 8/7, we can use diskpart to assign a drive letter to ESP and then manually copy Clover to that partition. Clover is a free and open source EFI bootloader which allows you to multi-boot Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on UEFI based computer, it can auto-detect all installed operating systems on the computer and displayed in the form of GUI menu for you to choose the operating system you want to start.Īs an EFI bootloader, Clover must be installed to the EFI System Partition (ESP).
