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macOS booting into Windows Recovery mode after deleting Bootcamp Windows partition
My Mac still boots into Windows recovery mode, automatically. I can still boot into macOS and everything works, however I want to remove this partition. When I first start my Mac it also shows up with ...
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MacBook mid 2012 MacOS Catalina GPT configuration messed up
I had Tripple Boot configured on my MacBook Pro mid 2012 sharing the same 240GB Sata SSD drive in the following order:
APFS MacOS
Boot Camp Windows
Linux POP OS
EFI partition or something.
I used ...
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Recover files from mac in recovery mode - apfs missing
I'm trying to recover files from my mom's mac that is not working. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
Trying to boot it up results in the folder with a question mark. Trying to boot ...
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Startup Disk Cannot be found (cannot reinstall macOS from Disk Utility in Recovery Mode) [duplicate]
Last night, I was booted my MacBook Pro and it was working find, after a few minutes restarted my MacBook Pro with Bootcamp. But then it showed a screen with a circle a line through it. I noticed that ...
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How can I do a GPT (Guid Partition Table) sector raw backup with `dd` like in a UNIX/Linux-MBR fashion?
I want to "raw copy" with dd the critical GPT (~ Guid Partition Scheme) bytes of my computer's main hard drive, to an arbitrary file.
I tried to do the equivalent MBR/Unix/Linux in my Mac (...
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How to completely remove unwanted Ubuntu dual boot partition?
I previously had a dual boot (Linux and macOS) setup. I added UBUNTU and SWAP partitions to the existing macOS partition.
I no longer need Linux so I deleted the UBUNTU partition but I still see the ...
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I'm stuck on “Choose Startup Disk” [closed]
During restart I am stuck at Choose Startup Disk. There is no option showing on the display. I am waiting for 20 mins and nothing shows up. Here what I see
How long I should wait? Or there is ...
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Disk problem for Mac, partition unaccessible and type shown as FFFFFFFFF
Having a bit of difficulty with my Mac. Was trying to partition to install a Linux mint partition and it all fell apart. On disk utility the command diskutil list shows what is shown in the image, and ...
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Easiest and safest way to clean the startup disk
My 2018 MacBook Pro has plenty of storage and memory.
Recently it has grown remarkably slow, beyond frustratingly slow.
Not a day or even an hour goes by without any given application, software, ...
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Black screen after boot
I am unable to boot my Late 2015 MacBook Pro. After the chime sound, I can see that the backlight comes on, but there is no image. Same thing happens when I plug in an external display - there is ...
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Recover data from broken ssd
Prehistory: in the morning I calmly worked on a laptop without failures, left it in sleep mode, after a couple of hours I opened it and saw a boot error (apparently it turned off and tried to turn on ...
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Not able to boot into MacBook Air (2017)
I have a macbook Air 128 GB (2017) model. It was working fine, until I decided to reset it. I restarted and went into recovery mode, into Disk Utility and erased the “Macintosh HD” volume group. After ...
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How recover boot drive? Mount the macOS drive [duplicate]
I have problem. MacBook Pro 15 2010 A1286 with two OSes on-board: Win7 on BootCamp and macOS.
The second drive (which is installed instead of the DVD) is turned off when macOS worked. The plume fell ...
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Startup Disk Got Missing
Firstly, I really apologize for what I've been doing so far on my MacBook Pro 2015.
I was trying to install a Kali dual boot on my Mac, and this is what I did before my MacBook didn't boot up my ...
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Boot from USB (Kali Linux, M1 Silicon)
I created a live USB on a SanDisk 32GB flash using Kali Linux live ISO and Balena Etcher software (I also tried dd) but the USB won't show up in the boot drive selector.
Startup menu
Kali ISO
usb ...
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