karacho i use windows 10 on the laptop and if i can't manage to get this working ill try that method thank you for your help
g-force thanks for that tip the only issue with that is my VM is only running Mac OS sierra and upon attempting to install the efi onto that drive im presented with a message that reads something along the lines of "not compatible however you can try but doing so may break the system" so im hesitant but if its only going to break the VM that's not really a problem i suppose