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Add FAT partition note about booting Windows
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Modern versions of Windows officially support two types of firmware: UEFI and BIOS. Users may want to boot Windows through the OCLP Bootpicker, but only UEFI Installations of Windows will show up in the OCLP Bootpicker.
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Many older Macs do not "officially" support UEFI Windows installations, leading to installation failures and strange behaviour, but OCLP can be used to prevent almost all of these issues.
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When booting Windows with OpenCore, it's highly recommended to create a new 200MB **MS-DOS (FAT)** partition in Disk Utility to install OpenCore in. This will prevent Windows from overwriting OpenCore with its own bootloader in the EFI partition and causing boot issues.
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## Minimum Requirements
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This guide will focus on the installation of modern Windows (10/11) without using Boot Camp Assistant.
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### NVIDIA Tesla Black Screen after driver installation
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The NVIDIA Tesla GPUs found in 2008-2010 Macs do not support UEFI booting in Windows. You cannot use UEFI Windows without low-level patching on these machines.
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The NVIDIA Tesla GPUs found in 2008-2010 Macs do not support UEFI booting in Windows. You cannot use UEFI Windows without low-level patching on these machines.

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