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Windows Volume when booting, never installed via Bootcamp
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Can you boot to that drive? I'm not a Parallels user, but since its a VM machine, it doesn't partition your drive, but rather lives in a directory under MacOS. Do you maybe have an external drive plugged in name Windows?
One more weird thing to accompany the problem, I have used bootcamp assistant only to download the bootcamp drivers software for another install, never did I create a bootcamp partition, but the utility now seems broken, I only get this error no matter what I do
"The installer disc could not be found."
"The installer disc could not be found."
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I think when the BootCamp assistant downloaded the drivers, you somehow created the environment to install Windows. That is a separate partition you are seeing. That is the only reason that you would get that option to boot to Windows upon reboot of the Mac. The VM would not do this. Maybe this will help.....
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/gui...remove-windows-from-your-mac-bcmp59c41c31/mac
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/gui...remove-windows-from-your-mac-bcmp59c41c31/mac
Wild guess: Maybe when you downloaded the bootcamp drivers, OSX mounted a temporary disk image to uncompress the download, and that temporary image is still hanging around.
One way to check is to run Disk Utility and have a look at the list of mounted drives and images in the left pane.
Also, as mentioned by another poster, have you done a search for Windows folders lying around on your mac?
One way to check is to run Disk Utility and have a look at the list of mounted drives and images in the left pane.
Also, as mentioned by another poster, have you done a search for Windows folders lying around on your mac?
Nope, this is not just a mounted volume
Bootcamp had an error when downloading the drivers, then tried removing the partition it created but it was just laying around without doing anything for hours, so I just quit and now I am having this
Bootcamp had an error when downloading the drivers, then tried removing the partition it created but it was just laying around without doing anything for hours, so I just quit and now I am having this
Are you the first user?, There was Windows installed on your machine and it was not removed the right way using Boot Camp, instead only the partition was deleted leaving the windows record in the boot partition.
To fix this you need to erase the disk and not the partition and do a clean install.
Leaving it as it is will not harm your Mac in anyway.
To fix this you need to erase the disk and not the partition and do a clean install.
Leaving it as it is will not harm your Mac in anyway.
Based on what you've said, it seems Bootcamp Assistant did indeed create a partition, then for whatever reason, things went wrong and it wasn't cleanly backed out / deleted. As Shafez said above, the small boot partition in your 500GB SSD is holding a list of boot options that claims Windows is available to boot to, and hence offering that as an option.
What do you mean by "512GB flash"? I don't think that's the right name for it. I can see from the output of diskutil you posted earlier that your mac boots from it. What sort of mac do you have?
- Create a Boot Camp windows partition and follow instructions till you reboot to windows Setup.
- Reboot back to macOS and go into Boot Camp and remove the windows partition.
This should solve your problem and remove the windows partition from boot.
Tested.
please follow the instructions on the following link:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/how-to-install-windows-10-mac-boot-camp-assistant-partition-video/
