That is something I tell the family to do, and if they lose the data because of then it's not my direct fault.they can ask about it and I can help set it up, but they have to be responsible for actually connecting a drive and running backups periodically, which with laptops means an actual effort on the user's part to run backups. It was most likely a data-level problem instead of a hardware problem. The drive was coming up fine, the OS X partition was healthy, and Disk Utility wouldn't even try to play with an NTFS partition hosting Windows. I had run Disk Utility to check the drive. I really wanted to double down on my effort to save the partition. I was going to reformat the partition and reinstall but then I realized we had upgraded to Windows 10 and the whole "install 8.x and run an upgrade to Windows 10" would be beyond painful with our crap Internet connection. I tried booting the commercial Win8x disc and running a repair Windows would say it repaired things, but upon restart it still threw an error. Therefore, the data/partition was intact, but something related to the Master Boot Record (or the hybrid used on the Mac to accommodate Windows with the disk partition scheme compatible on the Mac with its lack of BIOS) was damaged. When you boot the Mac holding the Option key, the only bootable volumes that appeared were OS X and the recovery volume.
Upon startup with Bootcamp as the startup disk, the Mac booted to a black console with a Windows error saying there wasn't a usable boot disk and asking you to insert a bootable CD or disk and restart.
I could select it as a bootable volume when OS X was running. Bootcamp still appeared as a volume that was readable under OS X. "Dad, what does it mean when the screen is black and says there's no boot device?" All still seemed fine.Īt some point he wanted to reboot to Windows and test some screen recording software. We've upgraded OS X, and Windows has been upgraded to Windows 10 Home. To solve this he used Bootcamp to install a retail copy of Windows 8.x. Because of this, he wanted to play games with Steam, and hated the limited selection of Steam games on OS X. My son has a not entirely new MacBook, and because of his relatively young age he likes video games.
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