Cannot see disc drive after installing boot camp windows 8

cannot see disc drive after installing windows 8

the superdrive,  it works fine in osx not in windows 8 on boot camp

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    Hi all,
    I installed Windows 8 with Boot Camp Assistant however I couldn't boot into OS X anymore. I get a prohibited sign on boot. If I press Command+V on boot it says "Error loading kernel cache (0xe)". Windows 8 can still boot without problem. Are there any way to solve this problem?

    I am also facing the same problem but didn't find solution yet. When I give repair disk it say "the partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with EFI system partition's file system".
    And I don't have windows installed as well.

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    hello
    i am pretty new at imac so bare with me and i really need help.
    IMAC
    OS X version  10.9.5  ( i think its os X mavericks ??)
    iMac 21. inch  , Late 2013
    iMac model identifier  iMac 14,1
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    i hold option on the keyboard but does not show window 7 so i went back to Apple ox s , found my boot camp hd on the desktop with files in it.  checked boot camp assistance showing 
    " The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. "
    i read alot of article about but i don't seem to understand much about
    i understand alot of people created these kind of topics
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    i only want an apple os ,  boot camp for windows 7  and 2 extra partitions for storage  ,  my hard drive is 1TB
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    Last login: Mon Feb 16 16:11:46 on console
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil list
    /dev/disk0
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
    /dev/disk1
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk1
       1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.0 GB     disk1s1
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil cs list
    No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
    Password:
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
           start        size  index  contents
               0           1         PMBR
               1           1         Pri GPT header
               2          32         Pri GPT table
              34           6        
              40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
          409640  1951845952      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      1952255592     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      1953525128           7        
      1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
      1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
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  • Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad won't automatically connect after installing Boot Camp

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    After installing Boot Camp which I will never do again, my iMac (on the OS X side) no longer recognizes my stock Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse automatically, until I press a button on the keyboard and wait 5 seconds, click the trackpad and wait 5 seconds, or click the mouse and wait 5 seconds.
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  • 2010 Mac Pro Boot Camp - Refuses to boot Windows after installing Boot Camp drivers

    Hey all,
    I have a quad 3.2Ghz 2010 Mac Pro with a Radeon 5870 and 8 GB RAM.
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    I had first installed Windows and the Boot Camp drivers a few months ago and everything was humming along smoothly. Monday I tried to boot into Windows and it crashed immediately after the black Booting Windows screen started to change to the login window. This happened repeatedly. Nothing changed on the system that I am aware of. Whenever I tried to boot windows again, it booted into the repair mode. That did not seem to work because after running the repair it would still not boot.
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    Has anyone run into this? I thought it might be a hardware problem but my Mac OS X OS exhibits no problems whatsoever.
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    Thank you to The hatter.
    I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 with a SSD and several internal hard disks. For some time I was trying to install Windows 7 on a fresh boot camp volume on a new WD 7200rpm 1TB hard disk. It was taking hours to install, and then I had a series of failures to reboot that proved permanent. The Window Repair utility would come up and took forever to repair the volume - but failed to actually do so, requiring completion reinstallation of the bootcamp volume. This occurred three times, between 1 day and 2 months after installation. I had already moved the Windows drive in to drive slot 1 of the Mac Pro.
    Eventually I gave up and installed boot camp on a secondary partition of the SSD. This worked fine, however is limited in capacity. So yesterday I thought I would try to install Windows on the hard disk again. The Windows installer took many hours to do its thing, and eventually a message came up that the installation had failed.
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  • Black screen after installing Boot camp Win7 on iMac 27 late 2009

    I've run out of ideas as to how to fix this problem. I have a late 2009 iMac quad i5, Mountain Lion, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD (recently exchanged under extended warranty).
    I stopped counting how many times I have tried to get this up and running but I followed a whole bunch of 'how to's' on the net, including the official Appple guide, but I always end up with a black screen. I insytalled it from scratch using both, Apple drivers on CD and SD card and I can confirn that they installed correctly during my last try. That time I first installed Win Vista, then upgraded to Win 7. I took out the install DVD after first restart and left the SD card in its slot (correctly named, as suggested by Apple). the installation finished, the screen went dark for about 5 min, then the computer rebooted, the screen went dark again for another few min and after that the vomputer restarted again but this time all stayed dark and nothing happened for the better part of an hour.
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    I presume that you've followed the instructions for sideloading the iMac Windows drivers into your install via USB stick? (wasn't aware the EFI recognized the SD slot as storage on boot. Now i know)
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    Installing boot camp on a Late 2009 iMac:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
    Direct link to Late 2009 iMac-specific Windows drivers.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL995
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    Hope this helps.

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  • HT4818 after installing boot camp 4 on mountain lion " Missing operating system"

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    I presume that you've followed the instructions for sideloading the iMac Windows drivers into your install via USB stick? (wasn't aware the EFI recognized the SD slot as storage on boot. Now i know)
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    Direct link to Late 2009 iMac-specific Windows drivers.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL995
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