There is no option to Install Windows(using any medium) in bootcamp after updating to El Capitan.

I recently upgraded to El Capitan newest version and the windows options from bootcamp are gone. It just shows the partition option. No USB installation, DVD installation, Driver download option- nothing, it just skips this whole step and straight goes to the disk partition option.

When I received the laptop with Yosemite (some version) I checked at that time and bootcamp had all the options. Even the option to install Windows using USB. Now I don’t see it anywhere.

Using Early 15 pro model with OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.2

Help! i want to install windows.

Hi,

I attempted to install Windows tonight via bootcamp, and now I’m thinking I probably should’ve had someone helping me along. When it came time to format the Bootcamp partition in the Windows installer, I received an error message, and had no choice but to start the installation over. When I got back to the screen, the Bootcamp partition was no longer called “Bootcamp.” To make matters worse, I misunderstood an instruction on this page and deleted the drive, I guess. When I attempted to start over from the beginning (with Bootcamp Assistant) it said the startup disk could not be partitioned.

Have I totally screwed myself? Is there any way I, a layman, will be able to fix this for myself?

Thank you.

I am setting up a new OS X 10.11 Server. In 10.6 I could set an alternate partition location on a per user level for the location mail would store its files for this specific user with Workgroup manager. Cant find this option in ServerApp anywhere and cant seem to be able to set it with serveradmin in terminal ether. Haven’t found a key in directory utility to fiddle around with ether.

I know that I could use SymLinks: after generating the user mail folder in the default location I could copy that folder to a new location, delete it in the original location and generate a symlink there pointing to the copied folder in the new location.

Does anyone know a more GUI approach to this? Thanks.

Okay so I wanted to install a small windows partition in bootcamp, I did so, but for some reason it didn’t boot to windows when it restarted.  Anyway, I wanted to remove it because it is taking up 30 gigs of storage and is completely empty.  The disk looks like this.

When I try to remove it, the minus icon is grayed out.

I have tried booting into recovery to do it but the same problem is still present.  I don’t want to format my entire drive just to get 30 or so gigs back. Let my know if you have any solution, thanks!

Hi

I have a Mac Mid 2009 with 500GB HD

I want to install Win 8.1 on it. Now I also want to have atleast 3 Partitions. 1 For Mac Itself, 1 for windows and 1 for my Data

Can someone please guide me step by step how to do it/?

As i am new to Mac Book Pro

Many Thanks

Hello there!

As the header says, Windows 7 won’t boot. Made a partition to swap files between OS X and Win 7.

I saw in a thread that it could be fixed using fdisk. I’m really new to OS X, so I really dont

know what to do. Just writing the outcome from the commands I found in the thread.

I now know there is a warning about making partitions AFTER installing Windows.

Would really appreciate if anybody took some time telling me what to do!

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage MacBook Hoveddisk       382.5 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data FILDELING               16.6 GB    disk0s4

   5:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows HD              100.0 GB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +382.2 GB   disk1

                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                 AD4E7A3F-9F8E-4734-8B4B-B65587CDD2A1

                                 Unlocked Encrypted

fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]

Signatu 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec –  cyl  hd sec [     start –       size]

————————————————————————

1: EE 1023 254  63 – 1023 254  63 [         1 –     409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AC 1023 254  63 – 1023 254  63 [    409640 –  747116216] <Unknown ID>

3: AB 1023 254  63 – 1023 254  63 [ 747525856 –    1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 0B 1023 254  63 – 1023 254  63 [ 748795392 –   32403968] Win95 FAT-32

gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

      start       size  index  contents

          0          1         MBR

          1          1         Pri GPT header

          2         32         Pri GPT table

         34          6       

         40     409600      1  GPT part – C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

     409640  747116216      2  GPT part – 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  747525856    1269536      3  GPT part – 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  748795392   32403968      4  GPT part – EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  781199360     262144       

  781461504  195311616      5  GPT part – EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  976773120         15       

  976773135         32         Sec GPT table

  976773167          1         Sec GPT header

Somehow I erased one of my partitions (1 of 2) 650GB and it no longer appears in Disk Utility. All I see is the other partition 350GB. I have tried rebooting whilst holding down the option key and using DU to erase the HD and then re-installing OS X without any luck. I still have only 1 HD with 350GB. During the rebooting process I have seen my other partition appear but it is locked. I am really confused with what I have to do and any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello wonder if anyone can help, try to make it brief and easy to read

Recently purchased a Macbook pro, wanted windows 10 so followed the guides online to do so. Got to the phase where it prompts you to format the appropriate drive to continue and this is where i messed up. I quit the process assuming I should of formatted the usb drive prior to this step… however after doing this, I lost the storage space due to the partition i.e. I allocated 125gb for windows out of the 400gb odd i had remaining but when i closed down the installation it i still had 125gb missing as there was only 275 free out of 300 max… I tried to fix it on my own and done more damage than good I think as i now can’t open up bootcamp as it is saying it has to be formatted to one dis (journal)… i did not have a time capsule backup thing so now i want to know if restoring to factory default would be a wise option… had the macbook pro for 2/3 days nothing on it except music so far.

Furthermore i tried to be crafty and do another partition to try and get to the installation window again so i could see and delete the old and larger partition i made… which is why I’m thinking its better to just rip everything off and save me of repeating or making new mistakes

If theres a better option and/or this option won’t work anyway I’m all ears for some help.

Thanks for taking the time out to read this =)

I made a partition with bootcamp for 200gb and while it was partitioning i had a black screen, so i restarted the mac and booted windows which took me to the installer.

I then was given the option to choose the partition to install windows on and the partition i made wasn’t there.

So i aborted it and rebooted in OSX and checked the partitions tab on disk utility and the OSX partition was larger and there was no other partition! and i also only have 100gb of free space now!

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you

I can not access my mac partition I am doing all of this on my windows 10 partition

I have tried the option key on start-up and even tried changing the boot order on the BIOS of the windows side this has not worked

the windows BIOS says the partition is still there I think but it is in the disc/USB menu I selected it but nothing happened

still no success

any help will be greatly appreciated

thanks

I hope you can help me, thanks in advance.

I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch retina display (late 2013) and i’m running OS X El Capitan. I have a 256SSD.

I  tried to install Windows 10 on my MacBook with BootCamp, it was all going very well until Bootcamp finished the partition, suddenly my computer restarted.

From the beginnig, I created the ISO file from a Windos 10 CD, then i got ready the external USB (16gb), i ran Bootcamp , it took a long time to set the following partition: 170GB for the Mac, and 80GB  for Windows. Then i clicked Install and the computer was  supposed to restart just to install Windows, but it restarted  on Mac OS, like nothing happened before.

The problem is that now my Drive is 170GB and i can´t visualize the Bootcamp partition anywhere, i tried with Disk Utility and nothing.

I restarted the computer and keep pressed Alt, then i picked Windows and the Windows instalation started, i follow the installation steps but when i had to choose where Windows was going to be installed, the bootcamp partition   wasn’t there either.

What can i do?

                        MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 256 ssd

I try to remove windows via using disk utility and it worked fine. Then I merged the two partitions back to 1 drive but it didn’t complete because it got an error. I tried to click on the partition layout which was the window partition but I cannot change any parameter in partition information at all. The partition name shows “free space” message while the format shows “OSX Extended”, these two function unable to click. Anyone can find the solution?

I have run the Disk Utility verify function against my system partition.  It tells me there are minor issues that need fixing up and I should run the repair disk function, by booting using Command-R and using the Disk Utility to repair the drive.

Problem is, when I boot using Command-R and select Disk Utility the partition is shown greyed out and the Verify and Repair options do not work.  I think this could be because the partition is encrypted.  The utility does not offer me the chance to unlock the partition with my passphrase.

How can I repair the filesystem errors on this partition?

It’s been a months since my Macbook Pro 13″ Mid-2012 got an issue regarding its HDD. It happens first when I upgrade my OS to El Capitan. During the installation of the El Capitan, it froze and I have to force shut down it and I need to erase the partition again to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in OS X Recovery and all my files are gone obviously but it’s okay with me.

My problem is everytime I erase it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) there’s this error message. It says

Volume Erase Failed

Volume Erase failed with Error:

File system formatter failed.

Now, the weird thing is that there’s a time I did erase it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format and Reinstalled old OS which is Mountain Lion. After I reinstalled it first used it performs well then after several minutes my laptop started to froze and I need to force shut down it again. When I open it again it stuck in Apple icon Logo. So, I did again the OS X Recovery and try to erase the partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and this time the error message popped again. I tried other format like MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT and surprisingly I can erase or partition it to those formats. It weird because I think my HDD needs to be replace but why is it I can format perfectly with those formats but only not with Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Any suggestions guys? Do I really need to replace my HDD? or Is there any solution to this issues?

Thanks!

Hey all,

I’m trying to recover the space on my SSD that I once had allocated to a Bootcamp Windows partition.

I first tried to remove the Windows Bootcamp partition through Bootcamp assistant, but it failed during the process.  After it failed, it will no longer let me remove the partition through the assistant.  I then tried to remove the parition through disk utility, but the “-” sign isn’t highlighted when I select to partition and remove partitions within the disk utility interface.  Pictures of what I’m seeing have been uploaded he http://imgur.com/a/v5Zgq

What is the best way for me to go about recovering this space?  Do I have to do a clean install of El Capitan and then recover my files through time machine after I’ve wiped my drives?

Thanks for any help.

Hello, I’m new for mac and OS X. so i need some help please

I have Macbook 13 OX S 10.11.2 and windows 10. I make a new partition to share files between this 2 system but after that i could not enter my windows ( windows showing an error asking me to repair or put CD or USB )

I hope I can get help here ..

Hi,

I messed up and followed some bad advice.  Water under the bridge, but I would like to recover my bootcamp partition if possible.  I’ve seen several posts with good process, but decided to post hear rather than make any more assumptions.  I’m running OS X El Capitan on a early 2011 MacBook Pro.  My 256GB SSD is a bit squeezed and tried to be too stingy with the Boot Camp partition, thus my current troubles after resizing.  I have Windows 10 on the bootcamp partition.

I will throw out a bunch of data from my investigation here.

capella:~ ronh$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            190.5 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                58.7 GB    disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +190.2 GB   disk1

                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                 B6DC811B-004D-4245-83C9-8FAA0B51FD9E

                                 Unencrypted

capella:~ ronh$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+– Logical Volume Group 487E3580-D1BE-4A6D-A33C-38C8DD8ABA34

    =========================================================

    Name:         Macintosh HD

    Status:       Online

    Size:         190546800640 B (190.5 GB)

    Free Space:   19005440 B (19.0 MB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume D61ADD7D-3CBD-40D6-A649-E231C5C23899

    |   —————————————————-

    |   Index:    0

    |   Disk:     disk0s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     190546800640 B (190.5 GB)

    |

    +-> Logical Volume Family 37BE876E-8E51-47C3-8D62-001EC021DE56

        ———————————————————-

        Encryption Type:         None

        |

        +-> Logical Volume B6DC811B-004D-4245-83C9-8FAA0B51FD9E

            —————————————————

            Disk:                  disk1

            Status:                Online

            Size (Total):          190175473664 B (190.2 GB)

            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)

            LV Name:               Macintosh HD

            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD

            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

capella:~ ronh$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 488397167

      start       size  index  contents

          0          1         MBR

          1          1         Pri GPT header

          2         32         Pri GPT table

         34          6

         40     409600      1  GPT part – C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

     409640  372161720      2  GPT part – 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  372571360    1269536      3  GPT part – 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  373840896       1024

  373841920  114554880      5  GPT part – EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  488396800        335

  488397135         32         Sec GPT table

  488397167          1         Sec GPT header

from gdisk …

Command (? for help): p

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): FD5932B4-069B-4CCE-A2EE-99AB5720CA17

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 1365 sectors (682.5 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition

   2          409640       372571359   177.5 GiB   AF05  Macintosh HD

   3       372571360       373840895   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD

   5       373841920       488396799   54.6 GiB    0700  BOOTCAMP

Is this worth spending time to recover?  Thanks.

Ron

I want to delete a bootcamp portion but the disk utility won’t let me.  It says it is not journaled but the journal entry is grayed out.  Trying to erase it in disk utility gives me an error.    The bootcamp assistant wants add but not erase or delete.  Running 10.11.2 on a 2012 MacPro