Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Lost Window 7, and can not boot from window
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="BeckyYO" data-source="post: 1434284" data-attributes="member: 266229"><p>Dear All:</p><p></p><p> I have an one-year old Mac Book Pro (MAC OS X 10.6.8, 8G RAM) which I installed Window 7 with the original MAC OS. I can press the “option” key when I start the computer to switch between different OS systems. The default is the Window 7. I have worked on it and saved some important data and software onto this Window system. It has no problem for a while until recently something wrong happened. The window began to close the applications and then shutdown the system automatically. I tried to restart the computer, yet it showed </p><p></p><p>“No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key”. </p><p></p><p>I tried several times, but the situations were the same.</p><p></p><p>So I press the “option” key again when I restart it. I used to see two HD icons (Macintosh & BootCamp), but this time I can only see the Macintosh HD. It seems to me that MAC has lost the window partition table. However, I can access BootCamp through the MAC OS (meaning I can see the BootCamp HD icon on the right upper corner of the desktop, and the files are still in this BootCamp HD which I can copy them to my NTFS USB flash drive). I have tried the following to try to recover my widow 7 back.</p><p></p><p>1>I used a software called “A Bootable USB” and load the window 7 OS to my flash drive, and the software has make the USB flash drive bootable. I then inserted the usb flash drive to my Mac, and then restart the system. But the “No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key” appeared again. I can not boot the window installed in my MAC from my NTFS flash drive. </p><p></p><p>2>I try to fix the lost window partition by “TestDisk”, but since the window system can not start, this approach failed. </p><p></p><p>3>I try to run “TestDisk for MAC” on MAC system, but it can not detect any hard drive information. So it fails again. </p><p></p><p>4>I use the “Disk Utility” in MAC to check the HD, there are Macintosh HD, BOOTCAMP and one strange partition named “DISKOS2” (209.70MB). I don’t recall where does this partition come from. Besides, all the functions provided by Disk Utility can not work when I select BOOTCAMP and DISKOS2. </p><p></p><p>5>I also try to use “Boot Camp Assistant”, thinking of my window 7 might fix the errors. But after the second step, it pops up “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition”. And I can not go further. </p><p></p><p>Please help me to fix the window partition issue so that I can restart my window 7 (and retrieve the data). </p><p></p><p>Thank to any kind of suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BeckyYO, post: 1434284, member: 266229"] Dear All: I have an one-year old Mac Book Pro (MAC OS X 10.6.8, 8G RAM) which I installed Window 7 with the original MAC OS. I can press the “option” key when I start the computer to switch between different OS systems. The default is the Window 7. I have worked on it and saved some important data and software onto this Window system. It has no problem for a while until recently something wrong happened. The window began to close the applications and then shutdown the system automatically. I tried to restart the computer, yet it showed “No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key”. I tried several times, but the situations were the same. So I press the “option” key again when I restart it. I used to see two HD icons (Macintosh & BootCamp), but this time I can only see the Macintosh HD. It seems to me that MAC has lost the window partition table. However, I can access BootCamp through the MAC OS (meaning I can see the BootCamp HD icon on the right upper corner of the desktop, and the files are still in this BootCamp HD which I can copy them to my NTFS USB flash drive). I have tried the following to try to recover my widow 7 back. 1>I used a software called “A Bootable USB” and load the window 7 OS to my flash drive, and the software has make the USB flash drive bootable. I then inserted the usb flash drive to my Mac, and then restart the system. But the “No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key” appeared again. I can not boot the window installed in my MAC from my NTFS flash drive. 2>I try to fix the lost window partition by “TestDisk”, but since the window system can not start, this approach failed. 3>I try to run “TestDisk for MAC” on MAC system, but it can not detect any hard drive information. So it fails again. 4>I use the “Disk Utility” in MAC to check the HD, there are Macintosh HD, BOOTCAMP and one strange partition named “DISKOS2” (209.70MB). I don’t recall where does this partition come from. Besides, all the functions provided by Disk Utility can not work when I select BOOTCAMP and DISKOS2. 5>I also try to use “Boot Camp Assistant”, thinking of my window 7 might fix the errors. But after the second step, it pops up “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition”. And I can not go further. Please help me to fix the window partition issue so that I can restart my window 7 (and retrieve the data). Thank to any kind of suggestions. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Lost Window 7, and can not boot from window
Top