I’ve a MacBook Professional (Retina, 13", Late 2013, 8GB/251GB) on which I’ve had a Bootcamp partition put in with Windows7 for a number of years (most likely since early days, i.e. since 2014). Initially the MBP ran Mavericks OS, which I thereafter have constantly up to date to present OS of Excessive Sierra (10.13.6). Booting Home windows has by no means been an issue. Till now. Now it doesn’t present up when booting and urgent Alt/Possibility – solely the Macintosh HDD is seen.
Half a yr in the past I did the silly mistake of working down free HDD house to one thing like 10 GB and as folks would possibly know this isn’t actually appreciated by MacOS. Nonetheless, I used to be capable of get again to dry land after studying a number of discussion board posts. I’m suspecting that this episode might need been the occasion that screwed up my Bootcamp someway.
Initially there was a corrupted MBR desk as different posts have handled, e.g. these:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252319323?login=true&sortBy=finest
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252776981?sortBy=finest&web page=3
I adopted the directions there (utilizing fdisk, not gdisk) and on the face of it, the whole lot appears superb – no less than in my eyes. MacOS is of a distinct opinion sadly, so I’m at a lack of what to do now. I present some fundamental display pictures beneath, which hopefully would possibly present clues.
I do discover now that the gpt command reveals "Suspicious MBR at sector 0" now – uncertain if that truly was there earlier immediately.
Trying on the MBR it appears like this
The Bootcamp disk is offered in all the following conditions:
- Disk utility in MacOS
- Finder (exhibiting all particular person information as properly, and I may even copy information to Mac folders)
- In restoration mode (command+R) as a alternative of bootable disk (won’t boot although)
- Startup Disk (in System Preferences)
So, the fundamental downside is that it appears to be nearly appropriately configured, however not absolutely, and the disk is simply not exhibiting up whereas booting (and urgent Alt/Possibility).
UPDATE 09.03.2024 10.41 CET
With the intention to exhaust all alternate options I did strive with the Win7 boot drive once more after having reset each SMC and NVRAM, however unresponsive keyboard and monitor pad remained.
I thereafter pursued the Win10 avenue as an alternative and downloaded a "recent" x64 model (ISO) from Microsoft’s homepage and began making a bootable flash drive (dimension 32 GB), utilizing Boot Camp Assistant (BCA), from that ISO. Nonetheless, BCA throws me an error message in the course of the course of some 15-20 minutes in, see beneath.
I seemed into this challenge, which after all others have encountered. I attempted the eject advice, however there was not any mountings to eject in my case actually, and the one which popped up in Disk Utility couldn’t be ejected because it was in use for the BCA course of.
Horrible wall of issues this has changed into 🙂
UPDATE 25.05.2024 14.23 CET
I used to be capable of copy all information I deemed essential to salvage from the Bootcamp partition, so I took the choice to simply erase/restore the partition and repurpose it as Mac house after that.
Simply as you identified, David Anderson, it changed into a too complicated a maneuver, particularly since I used to be capable of salvage the information of curiosity (I hope).
Nonetheless, I very a lot recognize the help alongside the best way, which gave me some new insights in addition to dragged me to a call level.
Many thanks!
…and hopefully this submit could also be of utilization to any individual else sooner or later.
