Tuesday, July 2, 2024

home windows – Bootcamp not showing as bootable disk on Excessive Sierra

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 repeatedly 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/Choice – solely the Macintosh HDD is seen.

Half a yr in the past I did the silly mistake of operating down free HDD house to one thing like 10 GB and as individuals may know this isn’t actually appreciated by MacOS. Nevertheless, 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 may need been the occasion that screwed up my Bootcamp by some means.

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

How one can convert a drive from the GPT format to the hybrid GPT/MBR format when utilizing Excessive Sierra (macOS 10.13.2)

I adopted the directions there (utilizing fdisk, not gdisk) and on the face of it, the whole lot seems nice – a minimum of in my eyes. MacOS is of a distinct opinion sadly, so I’m at a lack of what to do now. I present some primary display screen pictures beneath, which hopefully may present clues.

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I do discover now that the gpt command reveals “Suspicious MBR at sector 0” now – not sure if that truly was there earlier right now.

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Wanting on the MBR it seems like this

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The Bootcamp disk is accessible in all the following conditions:

  1. Disk utility in MacOS
  2. Finder (displaying all particular person information as effectively, and I may even copy information to Mac folders)
  3. In restoration mode (command+R) as a selection of bootable disk (is not going to boot although)
  4. Startup Disk (in System Preferences)

So, the essential downside is that it appears to be nearly accurately configured, however not absolutely, and the disk is simply not displaying up whereas booting (and urgent Alt/Choice).

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