Bootcamp-No Bootable Disk Error
I have a Windows 7 on my Bootcamp. It worked flawlessly until when I tried to import my Bootcamp to Parallel. On the Parallel, it said No Bootable Disk so I quited Parallels Desktop and tried booting my Windows 7 on my Bootcamp. And it is giving the same error.
Thanks Bob! My problem was that I was following advice from elsewhere on the internet that said I should burn a DVD in UDF format when in fact just burning it using disk utility in ISO made it work. Thank you so much!
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I have had this computer since August 2012. I have recently been getting a "No bootable disk" error when starting/restarting. I hold down the option key, select the SSD, and it boots normally. The first time it happened I kinda freaked, now it just ****** me off. It is NOT something that should happen on a machine as new and pricey as this thing is.
Anybody else heving this issue?Try to restart the system while holding down the OPTIONS key. This should allow access to the recovery partition. Select recovery and boot from that partition and use the disk utilities app to see if it can fix any disk error. after that try to reboot normally. If there is still a problem you might try to reinstall the OS fresh - I hope you have been making regular backups of your data with Time Capsule, a back up drive or cloud. These are the first steps I'd take, but then it might be a hardware failure of your drive. Use the Apple Hardware on your install DVD to check the drive. If the drive has failed, you can repace it yorself or take it in for Apple Service. I recently replaced my drive with a Seagate Blue 1TB 5400 RPM drive in my mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro (5,5) and it works great!
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Bootcamp "no bootable disk" after new partition made
Hi All
I'm not a tech head and I've seen a bunch of confusing things on this issue but here goes nothing to get an answer
I am running OSX Mavericks on a Imac 2011. I've run Bootcamp Windows 7 for ages. But I decided to make a share drive so i siphoned off some data and made another FAT partition in Disk Utility and I think I have stuffed the MBR. Now I get the 'No Bootable Disk' when I try to get into Bootcamp
I tried repairing it with Refit - didn't work
Tried repairing the main drive - didn't work
Trired this solution but didn't have permission in Terminal to change the fdisk - not that I fully understood what that was doing so I was kind of glad
Tried to follow this but got nowhere as it was over my head and using Windows tools
Please help
This is my Partition Inspector record - I do I an external drive plugging in but I've tried booting without that too - no dice:
*** Report for internal hard disk ***
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 1346786831 Mac OS X HFS+
3 1346786832 1348056367 Mac OS X Boot
4 1348057088 1543368703 Basic Data
5 1543370752 1953523711 Basic Data
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective
2 409640 1346786831 af Mac OS X HFS+
3 1346786832 1348056367 ab Mac OS X Boot
4 * 1348057088 1543368703 0c FAT32 (LBA)
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+
Partition at LBA 1346786832:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Mac OS X Boot
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type ab Mac OS X Boot
Partition at LBA 1348057088:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 0c FAT32 (LBA), active
Partition at LBA 1543370752:
Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 5, type Basic DataClean both the OSX and Bootcamp - that sounds very painful.
The bootcamp excercise will be painful enough.
I followed the command line prompts from Christopher Murphy and I'm posting the info here:
sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 1346377192 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1346786832 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1348056368 720
1348057088 195311616 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1543368704 2048
1543370752 410152960 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0
geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting
Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [
start -
size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [
1 -
409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [
409640 - 1346377192] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1346786832 -
1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1348057088 - 195311616] Win95 FAT32L
Hoping this somehow lets me repair the damage with some walk through code steps by someone out there - that would be awesome!!! -
'No bootable disk' error message when installing Windows7 with Bootcamp
Hey,
It seems so many people have had this problem which I am having now, I've tried searching for a solution that works but to no avail. So I'll give as much detail to this problem in the hope that someone knows the answer!
When running bootcamp assistant in order to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion), I am able to go through all the steps - create USB installer, download software and partition hard drive. However, when the computer restarts I am faced with the black screen displaying "No bootable device - insert disk and press any key to continue". Nothing seems to work!
I've tried using a DVD instead of a usb to install Windows, using a burned copy of the ISO disk image (in UDF format) of Windows and I've tried using a sony and a san disk USB. I've tried holding down the option key on start up to see if I can select the disk manually but nothing appears (just my hard drive and the recovery mode).
Any help would be really appreciated! I'm in need of windows in order to run some programs to carry out data analysis on endangered species for research.Thanks Bob! My problem was that I was following advice from elsewhere on the internet that said I should burn a DVD in UDF format when in fact just burning it using disk utility in ISO made it work. Thank you so much!
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everytime i try to install windows 8 on my macbook air mid 2012 via usb i keep getting that error after bootcamp partition and reboot...
does anyone know how to solve it ? its not my flash drive cuz i've already tested 2, and both have the exact same error.
error:
Non-system disk
press any key to reboot
and if i try to hold the alt/option button while its starting i can get to the windows 8 install screen, but when i select the partition bootcamp to install it doesnt let me move on.. and yes i've clicked on format in the windows installer screen, and yet nothing works..
HELP.There are no Windows 8 Bootcamp drivers yet so Windows 8 is unsupported. Go the the Bootcamp forum and read all the posts from Windows 8 users who can not get Windows 8 running correctly because there are no drivers. https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
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Bootcamp, Non-system disk error while installing Win 7. iMac Late 2012
Hello,
I am having an issue while trying install OEM Win 7 Home Prem. 64bit on my new iMac 27 inch late 2012 with bootcamp. I am using all brand new products with an Apple SuperDrive. After downloading the Windows Support files onto a USB and paritioning the hard drive, the system reboots to begin the Windows 7 install; however, a black screen appears and it simply says, 'Non-system disk. Press any key to reboot'. I am not sure what to do here and any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
Also - i read this thread, but it doesnt look like an answer has been posted:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4682842?start=0&tstart=0Sounds like the Boot camp system that looks for the Windows install system can't see the Apple superdrive. Which doesn't surprise me all that much as Apple has limited the external superdrive to working with only some Mac computers. Yes yours is included when you are booted into OSX but we are talking boot camp and Windows here.
You may need to place the Win install files on a USB thumb drive by making an ISO of the install files and or downloading an ISO file from the "My Digital Life" website for the version of Win 7 you have and then using a program like ISO to USB to place the Win install files on a USB thumb drive. Bad part of all of that is you may need a Windows PC to do that. I am not sure if it can be done on a Mac using Disk Utility and or even if Disk Utility can expand the ISO file whether it can make it bootable. -
Bootcamp "no bootable device" error while trying to install win7 on imac
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to install my original copy of windows 7 on my iMac 21,5 mid 2010 with mavericks as os.
This is what i do:
With my dvd of windows inserted in my cd/dvd reader I open bootcamp, i make the usb with drivers, i make the partition dedicated to windows and then the iMac restarts automaticcally.
When the iMac boots up a black screen (windowslike) appear saying : "no bootable device insert...etcetc and press any key"
First of all i'm using an external dvd reader because since i've upgraded to mavericks my superdrive stopped working (another big issue i've found out these days).
Then i've also tried making an usb bootable device....same black screen appeared.
I've been searching on the internet for days now without luck.
I believe i've tried everying but this funky situation keeps occourring.
I need to say that I installed windows on my iMac in the past and everything worked just fine, more then fine!
I need help please because i need windows on this machine due to working deadlines.
I'm desperate.
Help.Hello everyone,
I'm trying to install my original copy of windows 7 on my iMac 21,5 mid 2010 with mavericks as os.
This is what i do:
With my dvd of windows inserted in my cd/dvd reader I open bootcamp, i make the usb with drivers, i make the partition dedicated to windows and then the iMac restarts automaticcally.
When the iMac boots up a black screen (windowslike) appear saying : "no bootable device insert...etcetc and press any key"
First of all i'm using an external dvd reader because since i've upgraded to mavericks my superdrive stopped working (another big issue i've found out these days).
Then i've also tried making an usb bootable device....same black screen appeared.
I've been searching on the internet for days now without luck.
I believe i've tried everying but this funky situation keeps occourring.
I need to say that I installed windows on my iMac in the past and everything worked just fine, more then fine!
I need help please because i need windows on this machine due to working deadlines.
I'm desperate.
Help. -
Bootcamp Install, No Bootable Disk
Hi,
I was just in the process of installing Windows 8 on my Macbook Pro Late 2011 15" when after i partioned the hard drive, and restarted i had the no bootable disk error, with the black screen. I was attempting to use the Windows 8 ISO on a USB stick to boot, and presuming that it wasn't reading the ISO on the usb stick went on to burn the ISO onto a disk instead. But that hasn't worked either.
I'm now in a sort of limbo where i can't remove the partition that has nothing on, as the boot camp assistant won't allow me to remove it, and there is a device called Bootcam sitting in my Devices tab in Finder with the 125GB partition.
When I shut my mac down now it doesn't even attempt to go to the No Bootable Disk screen but goes straight to Mountain Lion.
Is there anyway I can restore the hard drive to the single volume and try bootcamp again? Or even get the burned disk working with the Windows 8 iso on?
I'm really struggling here so any help will be much appreciated.Edit: I've managed to return the hard drive to a single volume,
I'd like to point out i'm using a MSDN copy of Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit,
Is there anything obvious that I did wrong the first time? I recall the bootcamp assistant not being able to find the ISO before i partioned the hard drive, until I chose to mount the ISO from the USB stick. And then obviously when i tried to boot it it wasn't mounted anymore. But then surely when i burned the ISO onto the disk it should have read it from there? -
Product - WA889UA#ABA
Windows 7 64bit
"No Bootable Disk" Error Message
I determined my hard drive was bad and was able to create the 4 recovery disks. I installed a new 500GB WD Scorpio Blue hard drive. I ran the recovery disks, which formatted the drive and installed the original software. At the end of hte 4th disk, it says to remove the CD and restart. Upon restart, I get the message, "No bootable disk."
I reset the BIOS to factory settings, ran hard and memry tests and both checked out OK. Using DOS prompt, I ran "dir c:" and there are 7 DIRs with only 59,704,172,544 bytes free (shouldnt there be 400+ GB?)
I then created a Windoes 7 - 64 bit repair disk from my desktop. After choosing English, there are two Operating Systems listed - 1) OS: Windows Setup, Prt Size: 69631MB, Location: (Unknown) Local Disk, and 2) OS: Windows 7 Home Basic (recovered), Part Size: 69631 MB, Location: (C Local Disk.
I chose #2 and it found a problem with the boot files and corrected them. I restarted wihout CD, but still, "No boot disk". I re-ran the repair disk and chose "StartupRepair", but it found nothing wrong. I even tried choosing #1, but the message I go there was something like, "recovery is unable to correct this problem, do you want to send info to Microsoft".
I suspect there is something amiss with the partitiob, but again, when I ran the recovery, it formatted the new drive and installed files.Get Partition Wizard Bootable CD ISO and ImgBurn to burn the iso image to cd and boot from it. Delete partitions, create one and format. Next try booting from Recovery again.
Be sure that the wireless is turned on when running Recovery.
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No Bootable Device - Insert Boot Disk Error...
Ok so today I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit on my 750GB Toshiba HDD in my Optibay and was installed successfully, installed all the Drivers from Windows Support flash drive and when I try to reboot into Windows 7 I get the "No Bootable Device - Insert Boot Disk Error" everytime!! lol What the heck is going on here??
Specs:lennarts wrote:
So, I encountered the same problem...
When I click the icon in bootcamp to install windows, after a bit of activity the Windows installation disc was spit put, the screen goes black and the error "No Bootable Device Insert Book Disk Press Any Key to Continue" appears on the screen. And nothing else but using the OSX installation disc helps.
I realised that the windows installation disc did not even spin up.
So what I did... I went back to OSX, reinserted windows installation disc, went to system preferences, selected the windows cd as a start up disc and locked it against the changes.
After that I went back to bootcamp and clicked gain to install windows. Everything worked fine now.
I just tried this and it didn't work for me. I keep getting a black screen with a cursor flashing in the upper left hand corner. -
No boot disk error has suddenly occured with Bootcamp
Hey all,
I have a Mid 2010 Macbook bro running the latest Lion on the factory 500GB Seagate HDD. About 3 weeks ago I installed a 2nd hard drive (an intel 320 series SSD 120GB) in the main HDD bay and put the SSD into an optibay. I loaded Bootcamp on my new SSD and then installed Windows 7 onto it. It has worked perfectly since then. I have been able to hold the option key and selct which drive I want to boot to at start up etc.
This morning I held my option key to boot to Windows, and I received the "No bootable disk - insert boot disk and press any key" error. Has anyone seen this before? I have read through a lot of forums and found this relatively common for people who haven't been able to start windows at all, but mine was running perfectly fine with no sign of errors. Note the it shoulded be my Hard drive caddy that has given up as my Seagate HDD is in that and I am using that atm.
CheersBoot from Windows DVD
Download Intel utility for their SSD and create a boot CD
Yesterday was critical updates for patch Tuesday.
My advise is to make a backup on weekends before -
I recently tried to upgrade my macbook pro OSX to mountain lion via the app store. When it tried to install it gives me a disk error. I have run disk utilities and repaired, verified etc. but it makes no difference. I am running bootcamp as well and have tried to modifiy the partition sizes in disk utilities, but it says for both that they cannot be modified. I can switch my startup disk and reboot in windows, no problem, so getting my files off isnt the issue. I have also tried to recover the hard disk using time machine which i was lucky enough to backup the day before it all went wrong. However, time machine runs fine until it asks me which disk to recover and it gives me an option of the time machine disk or bootcamp, but no option for my mac partition. So, I have tried everything that makes snese, but getting errors with disks lock, cant repartition, disk error needs repair (which i know is not true, its only because of the Mountain Lion OSX that its messed up). Any ideas?
You have some other problem with your boot drive that has corrupted data backed up to the TimeMacine drive.
My advice is to boot into each operating system and manually backup just your Users files each to separate regular external drives (no Timemachine or backup software) and disconnect.
Make a note of any serial numbers, emails, address book contacts, export bookmarks etc. that isn't typically in your users folders data.
You might be able to Winclone 3 the Windows as a whole thing as it's appearing not to have issues but it's your MacintoshHD partition that is so that will have to be rebuilt from scratch.
Most commonly used backup methods
If your OS X parititon doesn't boot, you can use this to recover files.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Without any further detail about your machine I can't advise specifically what to do, but it involves using Disk Utility to Zero Erase (move slider one spot to the right or in 10.6 using Security Option) the ENTIRE boot drive and reformatting, then installing OSX fresh and then setting up BootCamp again.
If you wish to switch your boot drive for something better, this is a good time to do this.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
If your machine is capable of Internet Recovery, then use that, then upgrade.
If your machine came with 10.6 or earlier, then use the 10.6 install disks and work up from there.
Erase, formatting, OS X installs on Mac's -
using bootcamp, was installing windows xp, at the select ntfs or fat format mistakenly selected "leave the current file system intact." How can that be changed to a correct choice. Mac side opens correctly. Windows shows disk error. and doesn't respond to press any key. When looking in the startup disk section, windows on boot camp can be seen, but not selected. (13"MacBook Pro 10.6.8)
Have a read here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1722 for solution.
Stefan -
1) Could not start up os x
2) Only could start bootcamp
3) Tried resetting nvram
4) Could not start even in bootcamp
5) Verify disk says …. Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Error: Live file system repair is not supported
6) Installed maverick on USB drive
7) Boot from USB drive. Tried verifying HD: Volume header needs minor repair. The volume Recovery HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”: Error: live file system repair is not supported.
8) The terminal code says
9) Last login: Wed Feb 11 14:09:47 on console
10) xxxx-MacBook:~ xxxx$ diskutil list
11) /dev/disk0
12) #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
13) 0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
14) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
15) 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 80.1 GB disk0s2
16) 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
17) 4: Microsoft Basic Data 50.0 GB disk0s4
18) /dev/disk1
19) #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
20) 0: GUID_partition_scheme *15.6 GB disk1
21) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
22) 2: Apple_HFS BOOT 14.8 GB disk1s2
23) 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
24) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
25) No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
26) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
27) Password:
28) gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=160041885696; sectorsize=512; blocks=312581808
29) gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
30) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
31) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 312581807
32) start size index contents
33) 0 1 PMBR
34) 1 1 Pri GPT header
35) 2 32 Pri GPT table
36) 34 6
37) 40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
38) 409640 156394528 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
39) 156804168 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
40) 158073712 56853648
41) 214927360 97652736 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
42) 312580096 1679
43) 312581775 32 Sec GPT table
44) 312581807 1 Sec GPT header
45) xxxx-MacBook:~ xxxx$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
46) Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
47) Signature: 0xAA55
48) Starting Ending
49) #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
50) ------------------------------------------------------------------------Thank you -
I booted from external USB. The diskutil list output is from OS x booting from the USB, which shows the following:
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 80.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 50.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *15.6 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS BOOT 14.8 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
I am not able to use target disk mode because I don't have firewire/thunderbolt ports. -
Bootcamp: hal.dll and disk error SOLVED. Simple workaround
Many people had the "hal.dll missing" and "No disk" error while trying to install Windows with bootcamp on OSX leopard. I read a lot of workarounds and solutions, which some are complicated and some just don't work.
Here is my simple workaround to get rid of errors:
(Principle: force the shell of windows to appear before installation, so that we can quick format the bootcamp partition with" format" command)
1. Create a windows partition with bootcamp as usual (if you have already one then restore the OSX partition)
2. Restart and boot on windows cd. (press the option key ("alt") during restart)
3. When bluescreen appears and drivers are loading, press repeatedly F6 and F10. You should get a message that no SCSI disk was found and that you should press "S" or "enter" to continue. Press "enter". Now you should get a black screen in console mode.
4. Now we format the bootcamp partition. Type this: "FORMAT C: /Q /FS:NTFS". Put FAT32 instead of NTFS if you want the file system to be FAT32.
5. Press 'Y' to confirm.
6. Restart the computer, boot on cd, and install windows as usual. When arrived on partitionning during install, DO NOT REFORMAT!!!! Install on the partition that we just created before!
PS: I think that bootcamp just messes up the windows partition. That's why you get "disk error". When formatting during the windows installation, the partition is correct for windows but it overwrites entirely the bootcamp partition instead of just formatting it. I think that the quick format from the shell does just change the file system without modifying the partition itself. However, it works, so why bother why it does?....
Let me know if you have difficulties.
Message was edited by: febexPerhaps you need to use an XP cd with sp2 slipstreamed, install boot camp update 2.1, then SP3.
The following URL has a note: --> http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp_Update_2_1_for_WindowsXP
Important: Installation of Boot Camp 2.1 is required before installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)
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