No windows installed but still have Windows as boot option?
Hi guys,
I’ve recently bought a new MBP 15’’ Haswell while trying to install Windows through boot camp, the installation failed, so I tried to remove the partition that was created via boot camp and got an error, had to remove it via disk utility. The process worked well but if I hold option key during start up Windows option still appear along with Macintosh HD and Recovery 10.9.
My question is, that is happening because I’ve removed the boot camp partition using the disk utility or its supposed to show up, even w/o Windows installed?
I’ve tried to reset also the NVram and PRAM (cmd + option + p + r) on start up, but Windows option still there. Since it I didn’t have anything on the Macbook still I tried to re-intall the OSX, but still didn’t fix it.
Please let me know, if its supposed to be like that, Windows to show as boot option even if it isn’t installed, and if not, how to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Tiago
Allan,
How to do that? It shows to me a single partition on disk utility. Also, I intent to install Windows again when Apple fix this Boot Camp / Windows 8 problem, that is being reported all over the comunity, do u think that I should format and install OSX again.
Also if you can guide me how to format everything and install OSX please do so. Because When i tried to format the partition via recovery it gives an error saying that its not possible to mount the partition, something like that.
Regards,
Tiago
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