Hi guys,
I've recently been testing out a copy of Parallels on my Mac because I wanted to have access to games that I have installed on Bootcamp running Windows 10 without having to keep rebooting between the two operating systems. There have been some minor issues throughout testing (I've had to reinstall Parallels and re-set up the Bootcamp VM a couple of times), though with that said I had no problems for about a week or two. Until now that is.
I set my Mac to boot into Windows Bootcamp this morning (via the Settings section within Mac OS) however upon restarting I'm greeted with a black background with just the words "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Pressing anything on the keyboard does nothing meaning the only thing i can do is turn the computer off and hold Alt to bring up the Mac boot menu.
When I do this however I do not see my Bootcamp drive (just the Mac OS drive and the recovery partition). I choose to boot into Mac OS and upon doing so, I can see the Bootcamp drive in finder and Disk Utility, so it is definitely there. I can even use Parallels to boot into Windows with no problems.
I assume that the Windows Boot record has been damaged somehow by Parallels. I have tried running windows recovery and using CHKDSK command to repair the disk from regular boot, not from within Parallels boot (it identifies the disk successfully however doesn't report any problems with the disk itself or anything else that is obviously wrong), however this doesn't seem to fix the issue.
I'm not actually at this computer at the moment and might not be until tomorrow however I was wondering if anyone has any clues as to fixing this issue that I might be able to try before going through the process of restoring the Windows 10 image. I'd be curious to learn if anyone might have had this problem or whether it would be a safer bet for me to install a separate VM for Parallels.
Due to some of the minor (and now major) issues I've been having with Parallels, I was also contemplating trialling VMWare Fusion. Obviously I'd like to somehow fix this issue first, however would be open to any suggestions regarding alternatives to Parallels.
Kind regards,
Matt
I've recently been testing out a copy of Parallels on my Mac because I wanted to have access to games that I have installed on Bootcamp running Windows 10 without having to keep rebooting between the two operating systems. There have been some minor issues throughout testing (I've had to reinstall Parallels and re-set up the Bootcamp VM a couple of times), though with that said I had no problems for about a week or two. Until now that is.
I set my Mac to boot into Windows Bootcamp this morning (via the Settings section within Mac OS) however upon restarting I'm greeted with a black background with just the words "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Pressing anything on the keyboard does nothing meaning the only thing i can do is turn the computer off and hold Alt to bring up the Mac boot menu.
When I do this however I do not see my Bootcamp drive (just the Mac OS drive and the recovery partition). I choose to boot into Mac OS and upon doing so, I can see the Bootcamp drive in finder and Disk Utility, so it is definitely there. I can even use Parallels to boot into Windows with no problems.
I assume that the Windows Boot record has been damaged somehow by Parallels. I have tried running windows recovery and using CHKDSK command to repair the disk from regular boot, not from within Parallels boot (it identifies the disk successfully however doesn't report any problems with the disk itself or anything else that is obviously wrong), however this doesn't seem to fix the issue.
I'm not actually at this computer at the moment and might not be until tomorrow however I was wondering if anyone has any clues as to fixing this issue that I might be able to try before going through the process of restoring the Windows 10 image. I'd be curious to learn if anyone might have had this problem or whether it would be a safer bet for me to install a separate VM for Parallels.
Due to some of the minor (and now major) issues I've been having with Parallels, I was also contemplating trialling VMWare Fusion. Obviously I'd like to somehow fix this issue first, however would be open to any suggestions regarding alternatives to Parallels.
Kind regards,
Matt