Stuck in bootcamp

Hi there,
I switched to bootcamp from ML and now cannot get out of it.
I have restarted holding option key, no joy and then tried holding down x and windows asked me to load up windows 7 or diagnostic.
I tried to find control panel to switch back in windows with no luck.
can someone point me in the right direction please.
thank you

What options are displayed when you boot while holding the option key?

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Stuck with bootcamp

hi guys, I´m stuck with my MacPro!!! I tried to install vista with bootcamp and didn´t work, now don´t want accept any disk but it keep on start on bootcamp partition. I´m not able to let it start on with Mac partition. What can i do? There is any way to go in safe mode and choose which hard drive to restart? Please help!!!
Thanks a lot!

Zapping PRAM would also work by removing the path setting to the boot volume.
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Stuck in Bootcamp Windows install and can't get out

late 2009 iMac with Mavericks with homemade fusion drive with super drive removed.
Was working fine until i tried to use bootcamp to install Windows 7. Now I'm stuck in the Windows partition, windows won't install and can't get out of the loop. Machine boots white screen with no apple logo and chimes. Eventually has black screen with No bootabe device -- insert boot disk and press any key. I have a USB drive. I've tried everything. Doesn't seem to be recognizing bluetooth keyboard. No sort of button combination on startup works. Tried holding X, command-alt PR, shift, command-R, option. Tried everything. Light doesn't come on on keyboard in startup which means it's probably not recognized. Tried disconnecting internal drives and booting from USB. Tried booting from Time Machine USB drive. Nothings works. Think a USB keyboard would solves this?

I have gotten in this loop. When doing this kind of thing, a usb keyboard would be good to have around, and that is probably the problem, because when I would boot, the first time set the windows partition to the default drive. Hold the key combo and boot into OSX, and go into Settings/Startup Disk/ and change it to The osx hd.

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When I turn on the mac to install windows in bootcamp my windows gets stuck and says I must eject disk to install but will not allow me to eject disk. How can I eject the disk?

Deauthorizing the computer will only cause you to have to enter a password to play iTunes Store purchases on that computer. It doesn't have anything to do with media thats synced to the iPod, other than the account user name is synced too.
Check this Apple document out -> Using iPad or iPod with multiple computers
If you want to delete the music library on your device and make the new computer its "home" computer, choose Erase and Sync. iTunes will delete all songs and playlists on your device, and then will copy the music library and playlists from the new home computer to your device.
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Generally followed this guide http://www.howtogeek.com/186907/how-to-install-windows-on-a-mac-with-boot-camp/
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When restarted, my computer had black screen with "no bootable device found".
Restarted again, holding alt/option
Flash drive was now available as one of two options (the other being my standard mac drive)
Windows Setup loaded. Selected language/imputed key/select version etc.
Here is the strange part, the division of the disk does not include "bootcamp" anywhere in the title (like it should according to the guide), and is about 10gb smaller than my partition (assume this is a normal result of windows installation/os files etc). When I try to format the partition, it says I can't, and explains that I can't use MBR, need to use GPT.
Attempted to rewrite disk with Shift F10 Diskpart, list disk, etc, but here it shows drive 0, 1, and 2, (rather than drive 0 partition 1,2,3,4, with 4 being my bootcamp I think). This seems to be a method for installing windows on a windows pc, and I didn't go through with it because I didn't want to loose my mac os yet.
I am not proficient with coding/terminal use, and don't know if there is an option to list partitions etc, so I'm stuck. I can backup my mac and potentially change my partition table etc, but I feel like restoring with time machine would then wipe my existing partition. Is there a workaround I could use? Is there a specific sequence of backups/restores that would work? I'm also okay with manually drag and dropping the files I want back onto a clean slate computer if necessary. Or would simply buying and burning a disc with windows save myself the hassle? Please advise.
Sorry for long question, wanted to get info out right away. Can include more if necessary. Thank you all for your time.

TheMonark wrote:
I input that into mac terminal while running os? And then you'd like me to post the results on this discussion board?
Yes. It also helps if there are any calculations to be done with disk sectors.
My optical drive works fine, but I moved to France and didn't bring any disks. Would it be easier and safer to just burn my windows iso onto a disc and run it through bootcamp that way? I'm thinking the answer is yes at this point.
Yes, if you have a built-in Optical drive, Bootcamp expects to boot from the Optical drive, because it sets the CSM-BIOS layer for Windows to boot from the Optical drive settings in the NVRAM.
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Do you recommend just buying a DVD and doing it that way? I could easily return my info.plist to normal, and as far as I know, my optical drive works fine. Seems simpler if it would work with my copies of osx and windows. What do you recommend?
The changes in info.plist enable creation of the USB, but do not influence the boot device pointer that BCA will set when switching to the Windows Installer. My recommendation is to get DVD writable media (DVD+R or equivalent) and burn the ISO to a physical DVD and use BCA to install windows using the BCA USB and DVD media.

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winxp home sp2 bootcamp,
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desktop freezes, i press ctrl alt del, .. nothing get the busy/working cursor
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I've been noticing that Boot Camp 3 is a bit more finicky when rebooting back to OSX. I'm suspecting that the desired partition is not set correctly in the PRAM/NVRAM, so the Mac is looking for a non-existent partition to boot from. Nothing that happens consistently for me; happens maybe one out of every 40-50 reboots.
The workaround is instead of using the control panel in Windows to reboot to OSX, just shut down Windows as normal, then start the Mac holding down the Option key. OSX's Startup Disk System Preference seems to set the startup disk correctly, but Boot Camp's seems to have issues. Once I stopped using the control panel in Windows to reboot, I haven't had the hanging reboot issue so far. YMMV, but something to try that's different than what you're doing now.
...i'm getting stuck at bootcamp ctrl panel > choose which os to restart to, > i select macosx in the ctrl panel, after i click yes to restart it freezes after 20 secs and it stays that way for more than 10 mins, so i hard shutdown(holding down power button)
If my suspicion is correct and the contents of the PRAM/NVRAM are corrupt (i.e.: Boot Camp Control Panel not setting startup disk correctly,) you should to [reset the PRAM|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379].

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I upgraded my MBA2011 to 10.8.3 yesterday, and tried to install Windows8 Enterprise with Bootcamp Assistant.
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Anyone has any idea about how to get it work?

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
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I'm running an early-2008 MacBook (13-inch) that has previously had Windows Vista and Windows 7 installed to it through Bootcamp over the years.
A few weeks ago I did a fresh reinstall of OS X Lion (10.7.5) and decided to reinstall Windows 7 as well. I deleted all the partitions and started afresh. However, upon trying to reinstall Windows 7 I've become a wee bit stuck.
Bootcamp works fine at first - it lets me partition the HDD without any issues (the partition is MS-DOS - FAT32), but when it reboots it gives me a message 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key' against a black screen. I've never seen this message before and it won't let me continue with the installation. I'm able to get back into OS X by pressing the option key upon reboot.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? As I said I've used Bootcamp several times in the past on this machine without any problems. The only difference between then and now is that my Superdrive no longer works so I'm using an external DVD drive. However, the error happens regardless of whether it's plugged in.
Cheers,
Matt

jeffjefftyjeff wrote:
The only difference between then and now is that my Superdrive no longer works so I'm using an external DVD drive. However, the error happens regardless of whether it's plugged in.
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On such Macs, the BCA sets the boot device to be the non-functional Optical drive, which is why you see a No boot device message.

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Bootcamp Assistant: Downloading Windows support software... STUCK.

I've been trying for 2 days to get Bootcamp Assistant to run on my iMac 5K, and every time I've tried I get to "Downloading Windows support software..." and it just stalls. I even left it over night in hopes maybe it would advance some how, but nothing at all, just stuck at maybe 10%,
Anybody else get past this? I see tons of people having installed Bootcamp already, how the **** did you manage it when you can't get appropriate drivers or software?

Wireless or wired doesn't matter (have tried both).
I've got a 150mbit down connection, which I've routinely run speed tests and other things since setting up the machine. So I'm going to assume the connection isn't the issue.
Here's a dump of everything from the Console. Any of it make sense?
10/23/14 2:41:32.782 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[2185]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
10/23/14 2:47:51.372 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.CoreLocationAgent[2202]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.CoreLocation.agent
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10/23/14 2:55:18.035 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:18.035 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:19.426 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:19.426 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:30.449 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: -[DAWindowController softwareUpdateDidBegin:]
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Please help!!!! I spent half of the day today trying to install windows via bootcamp on my mac and am completely stuck. I have gotten no where.
I have a iMac 27 inch late 2013 with 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB memory, 10.10.2 Yosemite. I’ve got more than 600 GB free space. I am trying to install windows 8.1 via the disks.
I followed the instruction manual for bootcamp located here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf although it seems like it’s a bit old because it talks about software update off the apple menu. It is made for windows 8. I also followed this: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468.
I have searched many others that asked this question and have tried their suggestions but I am still stuck.
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Made my own ISO from the 64 bit windows 8 disk.
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Partitioned the drive so that there is 199gb dedicated to Windows.
It then gets stuck on the partitioning disk screen. It looks like it’s 100% done on the status bar as soon as I push install, but then nothing else happens.
I had previously gotten past this screen, booted to windows, and when I tried selecting the partition to install windows on, it gave me an error message: “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.” I tried clicking “format” but that didn’t help. I read a post where a person recommended to partition the drive via Disk Utility instead. I tried that but then got a new error…. So I used the bootcamp assistant to put back to one single partition and remove everything I did. I deleted the data on the USB drive and started over. Here I am now – stuck on the bootcamp screen trying to partition the disk.
When I go to disk utility, it only shows one partition with my full 1 TB of storage.
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