i put and bootable partition on my external hard drive for OS X El Capitan,...
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View ArticleMacbook Pro – Deleted Boot Partition
Hello, I was attempting to install BootCamp onto my 2012 Macbook Pro but was running into issues as the error message ‘Windows cannot be installed to this disc. The selected disc is of the GPT...
View Articlei had installed windows 8.1 with bootcamp there was a drive c and i tried to...
I use macbook pro. I had installed Windows 8.1 with bootcamp there was a c drive then i tried to make second drive d with disk management when i shrink c drive and format the partition which was made...
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2013 MacPro Windows 10 Installation Partition Problem (BootCamp)
Greetings, I’ve been having some challenges installing a Windows 10 via Boot Camp. As far as my system goes, please see the enclosed screenshot of my MacPro system. My hard drive is SSD. The...
View ArticleProblems with recovering windows partition after Mac OS upgrade
My Mac os was working well with the Yosemite and I installed boot camp and installed windows 7 on the other partition. All was well until I upgraded my Mac OS to El Capitan. Whenever I press and hold...
View ArticleSSD(bootcamp partition) on macbook 12 cant detect when installing windows 8.1
Dear support, why my SSD(bootcamp partition) cant detect when installing windows 8.1? im installing via bootcamp assistant, the drive i chose divide equally, after restarted i put the serial, then on...
View ArticleWill my bootcamp partition be there if I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion?
Hello I’m planning to get bootcamp with windows 7 premium. And later on planning to install lion OS. So when I install lion will my bootcamp partition still be there? Or would I need to reinstall it?...
View ArticleUnable to install windows after partition reset
I have literally been sat at my macbook for the last 10 hours trying to get my bootcamp to work, however after tonnes of research and trying things I have found online I am still at a loss. I...
View Articlebootcamp partition not showing up in El Capitan after upgrade
My bootcamp partition is not showing up anymore after my update to El Capitan. Cannot find it in “Startup Disk” in “Systems Preference” nor in “Disk Utility”. With the following command in Terminal:...
View ArticlePartition Inspector report
Hi everyone, I just realized I have an app in my macbook, partition inspector and I ran it, it gives a report but I have no idea what it means. If anyone out there knows how, please tell me if my...
View ArticleCannot find a hard drive partition
Hello. Today I felt like installing Windows 10 on my mac due to my interest in gaming. I bought a Windows license and downloaded the ISO file. When I started boot camp i followed the instructions and...
View ArticleHow can I rename a partition to show up properly in the Startup Manager?
I renamed the partitions on an external hard drive using short names, yet, in the startup manager screen (the one you get pressing Alt during startup), the old names remain. How can I rename them to...
View ArticleHow to solve AMD-Action:authenticate:SP keeping Users on separate partition
Hi, I found some discussion threads on problem- “AMD-Action:authenticate:SP” but I want to keep my /Users dir on a separate partition as it makes me feel safer for my date and time & effort I...
View Articlewont partition drive
I tried to use bootcamp to get windows 10 and when it gets to where it says partitioning drive, it wont load
View ArticleHow to resize a bootcamp Windows partition
Hi, for two years I’m running a 2013 27″ iMac with a fusion drive. I’ve got El Capitan installed and I’ve made a 70Gb bootcamp partition for Windows 7. For some reason I cannot access my USB ports in...
View ArticlePartition of Drive
I wish to partition my drive so that I can install Windows 10. I have the Windows files in a folder on my flash drive. How would I partition the drive using Boot Camp and if not how might I do this?...
View ArticleHow to share a partition between El Capitan and Windows 7
Hi all, Looking for some help. I’m fairly new to Mac OS and looking to setup a MacBook with both El Capitan and Windows 7 with or without boot camp. I have a 1TB SSD hard drive where I want to...
View ArticleRecover modified FAT 32 partition with Disk Utility
Recently I modified the size of my main mac hd (hfs+). I sized it down to make room for a FAT32 partition and moved some work files onto the new 2TB FAT32 partition This worked fine. Later I used...
View ArticleHelp! My MacBook goes to sleep when Disk Utility (on the Recovery partition)...
Right now my MacBook is booted into the Lion Recovery partition. I’m running Disk Utility and attempting to shrink the main partition so I can clone it to a smaller HD. (Yes, there will still be enough...
View ArticleI erased my Bootcamp Partition. Now what?
Hello all, Whilst messing around with erasing my old Time Machine drive I have managed to delete my Bootcamp partition from my SSD. I have come to terms with the fact that the data is gone. I didn’t...
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Repairing Bootcamp after new partition
Hello, I have the same problem as many here before, but I’m confused about which commands to write into the terminal. Problem: I created a second partition to install OS X El Capitan 10.11.2...
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How to Restore the hidden bootcamp partition
Hello, I had the bootcamp partition for windows 7 and i had restored the bootcamp. Bootcamp deleted the partition but it failed to restore the storage size to the main HD. How can i restore the free...
View Articlemissing bootcamp partition after installing El Capitan
I have turned off the System Integrity by typing “csrutil disable” in terminal, however I have not yet downloaded or rebuilt GPT Fdisk. Can I install GPT Fdisk now or do I need to turn System...
View Articleunable to partition external hard drive in disk utility
on El Capitan disk utility does not allow partitioning of a new external hard drive. When will this be fixed? Is there a work around. With I TB seagate disk, and I cannot partition? That is not...
View ArticleI have a 121 GB Flash Storage MBP; but when I check my storage at the About...
Basically what it says above.
View ArticleWindows 10 Boot Error on BootCamp Partition
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) running Windows 10 and OSX Yosemite 10.10.5. When switching to the Windows side, I receive the boot error: Your PC needs to be repaired The Boot Configuration...
View ArticleAfter 10.11.3 upgrade won’t boot into Mac HD partition; only boots into Boot...
After the 10.11.3 update, I am unable to boot into my Mac partition. Only Windows 10 via Boot Camp will boot and only it shows up in the Boot Camp Control Panel Startup Disk tab. I was able to boot...
View ArticleMissing operating system Macintosh partition
Trying to install Windows 7 partition using .iso. errors “startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically” / couldn’t find the drivers. In system repair i set the active partition to the 200MB...
View ArticleUpgrade to El Capitan overwrote boot partition on dual boot setup
I’ve been using rEFInd to dual boot my Macbook Pro with OSX and Ubuntu. Today I decided to upgrade my OSX from Yosemite to El Capitan. After downloading all the 6G, which took about six hours, and...
View Articlecompletely remove a partition from the HD
I’ve had my iMac a couple of weeks now and created a partition to put stuff on that I wanted to keep separate from the main drive. Now I’ve decided to install windows 7 and eventually update to...
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partition gone after upgrading to el capitan
tried to follow the steps he https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7265037 but got totally lost, I ran test disk but it doesn’t show my windows partition. here is my SSD, the 188 is my OSX, the...
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How To Merge Mac Partition With Deleted Windows Partition
I’m using MacBook Pro 2010. I first partitioned my hard disk as 200GB for Mac and 120GB for Windows. I’ve deleted Windows partition which is 120GB using Disk Utility. Now i want to merge Mac partition...
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Disk utility error trying to partition
Hi Guys, can anyone advise me here? Im trying to create a partition on my mac hard drive buy im getting a strange error, I tried running first aid on the disk and not getting any errors. What can...
View ArticleHow do I eliminate an iMac 21.5, 2x4gb/1tb running OS X disk partition for...
How do I eliminate an iMac 21.5, 2x4gb/1tb running OS X, latest update disk partition running Windows 7.
View ArticleNo chance to set partition size, automatically goes to 32 GB
In addition to title info, after I choose the jump drive to use the drivers from Boot Camp goes to the next screen and automatically begins partitioning. I can see where the option to resize is, but...
View ArticleMaking two partition back into one
I created two partitions, one for windows, I erased windows and now would like to reset it back to one partition. How can I reset my mac air back to factory settings and reset it back to one partition...
View ArticleWindows 10 unable to locate boot camp partition
I am trying to install Windows 10 on a late 2015 iMac with a 512 SSD. Using Boot Camp and a Windows 10 ISO, I am able to create the Windows partition in Bootcamp and the iMac restarts into Windows...
View ArticleWindows 10 Partition Won’t Boot After Creating New Internal Drive
I’m running OS X 10.11.2. I set up a Windows 10 Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro a while ago, but today I realized I needed more storage. I looked up how to do so online and came across this thread:how to...
View ArticleHow to partition an external hard drive using Parallel ?
I have recently purchased a Macbook Air 13 inch with 8g ram and 500 gb memory with an i7 processor. I’m using the computer for school and need to run windows on the computer. I’m currently using...
View ArticleFAT partition of external drive won’t appear
Hi everyone, I have a G-drive with two partitions : a small FAT one, and most of the storage space as Mac OS regular format. Since recently, the FAT partition won’t appear anymore when I plug the...
View ArticleMacbook Bootcamp fail – partition lost
Hello Everyone! I hope someone can help me with this problem, I tried so many things already, but couldn’t solve it. I have a Macbook Air (early 2014), and I tried to install windows 10 via...
View Articlebootcamp partition is not showing when I restart and hold option
I recently partitioned my mac with bootcamp. That went smoothly and worked fine up until today. Today, I decided i wanted to move some space from my Mac partition to my Windows side. I took off 150 GB...
View ArticleFile not visible on Bootcamp partition from MacOs
Hi everybody, First, sorry for my English, I’m a French user. I have a MacBook Pro 9.2 under OS X El Capitin 10.11.3. I installed Windows 10 on my computer with BootCamp. The installation was...
View ArticleWhich is the best way to partition a Time Machine HD?
Hello, I have a 500 GB external hard drive that I would like to use as my Time Machine drive and data drive for my Mac & Windows PCs. I know that for Time Machine I don’t need more than 250 GB...
View ArticleUnbootable BCA partition
Hello everyone, I have been looking for answers to my problem but can’t seem to find any…. the issue is as it follows: I have a Macbook 5,2 mid 2009 3 gb of RAM, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, i have...
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Can’t select Boot Camp partition any more in Startup Disk panel
Until a couple of weeks ago was able to use the Startup Disk pane in System Preference to select my Boot Camp partition. However after a recent Windows 10 update, I get the following error when I...
View ArticleBootcamp partition not bootable
Hi My bootcamp partition is showing up as ‘Bootable: No’ (as shown he http://imgur.com/hAuyR1j) – I used the bootcamp installer – I checked all 3 boxes – After I made my partition, my computer...
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Can’t restore the drive to 1 partition
Hi Everyone, I got one MacBook 2008 with OS X Lion 10.7.5 recently. Wish to remove all previous system and install OS X Yosemite with USB drive. I ran into a weird problem, and after searching for a...
View ArticleWindows Boot Gone After New Partition
I installed Windows 7 successfully, and was using it with everything working. I partitioned off a 100gig drive from the main OS X drive, and afterwards, my ability to boot into Windows was gone. It...
View Articledelete partition
I am trying to delete a Bootcamp partition on my MacBook Pro Which format do I choose: Journal extended, Journal extended encrypted…etc?
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