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"missing operating system" error with Bootcamp on 2013 Macbook Air
I seem to have royally messed up my bootcamp.
I have a tiny (30GB) bootcamp partition, and was trying to expand that space. I shrank my OSX partition via disk utility, then found I was unable to see ...
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Options to manage a Win7 machine remotely from macOS/Linux [closed]
My mom lives on another continent and is very computer-illiterate, e.g. she doesn't know how to open Skype again after she mistakenly closed it so we can't talk to her for weeks (until somebody comes ...
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Can't install Windows 7 on Mac Pro 3,1
I cant install Windows 7 on my MP3,1.
I burned original iso with Windows 7 on USB using Rufus (GPT partition).
Booted with holding Option key, chosen EFI and got freeze.
I tried to run Win7 installer ...
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Determine edition of Windows 7 Bootcamp partition - no access to command line(?)
I acquired a MacBook recently with a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. I wanted to make more space for the Windows partition, so used MacOS' Disk Utility to shrink the MacOS partition.
Even though this ...
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Can't Switch from Windows 7 to MacOs by holding option key when restarting
i cant switch to OsX from windows 7 by pressing the option key when restarting. It worked earlier but then it suddenly stopped working.
Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks.
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Can I create a Parallels Virtual Machine instance from an existing PC?
I have a laptop running Windows 7 Pro where I am not the admin. (The company did the setup and gave me the machine) I also have my personal laptop that is a Macbook Pro and I have Parallels installed. ...
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Why is a bootable USB drive is showing up among the startup disks on a MacBook but not on an iMac?
I have a mid-2011 iMac and I'm trying to install Windows via Boot Camp.
Using the app worked well. It created the USB boot drive with a Windows 7 ISO. The problems started when Boot Camp restarted ...
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Windows 7 - Reboot after hibernating
Similar situation to here. But I have a bit of a different situation. I have a Mac and have Windows 7 in BootCamp. I frequently hibernate and restart manually to keep my Windows state and use macOS. ...
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Cannot access the Windows shared folder on MacBook
I have followed this tutorial to access a shared folder of windows on MacBook. I have done the following steps:
Created a shared folder in Windows.
Given it the permissions that everyone on the ...
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How to open a (maybe) corrupted webarchive on Windows
First of all, is the first time I handle a WARC file...
I have a webarchive file which seems to be corrupted (in some way), I have installed Safari on Windows and I get this (the same thing happen on ...
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Install Win7 on MacBook Pro with USB Drive
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro, and I want to install Win7 on it. I have a Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate (64 Bit) iso file and an 8GB USB Flash drive.
I've tried several ways of putting in the ISO file on the ...
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Make a bootable Mac OS USB which also can be read on Windows without extra software
Now I have a 16GB USB stick formatted with GUID with two partitions.
The first partitions is made as Mac OS installtion disc which can be booted and install mac os properly.
For the second partition ...
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Installing Windows 7 from DVD on iMAC without ISO
I have:
iMAC (Retina 5K, 27-inch Late 2015)
Processor: 4GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk: Macintosh HD
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
OS: macOS ...
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requests from Virtualbox gets cut off when visiting websites running on MacOS Sierra
The situation:
I'm running the following things on my MBP with macOS Sierra:
A python SimpleHTTPserver serving a Django app on localhost:8000.
A VirtualBox (5.1.8) image running with Windows 7 (...
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Tried to resize bootcamp partition unsuccessfully and after a wipe I have strange diskutil data. How do I repair?
I was trying to change the size of my bootcamp partition. Here's what happened (mistakes were made):
Shrunk the size of Mac HD in disk utility from 370G to 300G, this created unformatted free space ...
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External HDD not accessible in windows 10 (or Ubuntu)after using on Mac(still accessible on Mac)
I have 1TB Dell External HDD which was working perfectly on windows until recently. I have used the same HD previously on Windows, Mac or Ubuntu and it had no problems - it used to work on all ...
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USB drive is visible in Windows 7's device manager, but NOT in file explorer (my computer) or disk management
It's an old external usb driver in NTFS that was working fine with my windows 7, and later I formatted it into ExFat by my MBP that I hoped it could be consumed by both PC and Mac. Unfortunately the ...
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OSX "Connection Failed" error when connecting to a Windows 7 share
I have a Windows 7 machine on my home network, which I use to share files with other machines on my network. When I try to connect to this machine from my Mac, it will work for a little while, but ...
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Using OSX or Linux, how to create a Win7 OS on a flash drive - not for installing Win7 - I need the runnable OS?
I have three computers, a Win7 laptop, a Mac and an Ubuntu box. The Win7 laptop has just died and to try to get it running again I have to run various Win7 apps, like HDScan and Intel's raid manager ...
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Truecrypt encrypted Win 7 HDD in a Mac
I'm new here, but I'd like to see if anyone can point me in the right direction for a tutorial of how to do this:
I have a work computer that has win7 with TrueCrypt full system encryption - I want ...
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Stop Microsoft's Remote Desktop disconnecting me when another user logs on
I work on a macbook in my office at home, but used to work on a Windows machine which is still in my house. To be able to use Windows-specific apps and to get at old files I have set up a way for me ...
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Can't access Windows 7 vm via rdp on Mac OS X host
In VirtualBox I opened ports (3489 and 5000) to give access to the 3389 rdp port on Windows 7, as show in the images:
But even so I cant't reach the guest win vm from host via rdp.
What might be ...
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Cant connect to my Windows PC from my MAC Laptop
I shared an HP printer from my Windows 7 PC however when I try to connect my Mac laptop to the printer it always asks for a username and password. When I input my username and password my Mac rejects ...
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file modified date wrong on Android by 8 hours when transferring files with OSX
I moved files to my desktop in OSX from an sd card and then to another sd card.
I then put that SD card into my android phone and the last modified date is off by 8 hours on all photos.
The modified ...
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lpd printer configuration in osx prints, but not when using windows. Why?
I'm using a really strange print server, from win-star, model WS-NU78W44, trying to share a HP LaserJet M1120 MPF. When I tried to use the print server's installer, on windows, it worked well, but now ...
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Why do I run out of disk space when I attempt to update a VirtualBox VM to Windows 10?
I have installed VirtualBox (version 5.22 with latest guest additions) on MacBook Pro (running Yosemite) and have one VM which is running Windows 7.
I want to upgrade this to Windows 10. The Windows ...
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Bootcamp assistant doesn't show windows partition anymore
I want to install Windows 7 back on my Macbook Pro mid 2010 model. But When I run Bootcamp assistant I don't see a Windows partition to resize it, only one big Mac partition.
Here is some ...
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Poor video playback in VLC under bootcamp
I am using Windows 7 64bit in bootcamp on my aging Macbook and while recently watching a movie using VLC I noticed slight tearing. It is noticeable when the scene changes and very noticeable in action ...
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MacBook Pro, OS X 10.7.5 with Windows 7 x64 2 partition
I want to backup both Mac & Windows partitions onto a completely OS interchangeable Seagate Backup Plus 2 Tb drive. (I don't know what program was used to do that.) I've read that formatting to ...
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.zip made on Mac OS, .jpg files with weird characters on Windows
I received a zip file from a Mac OS user with several hundred of .jpg files, some with very long names. Opening the .zip file wit 7-zip on my Win 7 machine, lots of these files have very weird ...
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How can you export WiFi settings from Windows 7 to an Apple Mac OSX?
Bought a new Mac but can't access wireless networks I used to because their passwords are saved on my old pc.
Can WiFi names and their passwords be exported from a Windows 7 PC and imported to a OSX ...
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VirtualBox 100 percent CPU usage
I have MacOS as the host (El Capitain) and Windows 7 as a guest - however the CPU rises up to 105 %, even when it is idle. I have searched the web, eventually found this thread here on SU, but have ...
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Windows 7 in Boot Camp can't read other FAT32 partitions
On my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro, I have OSX 10.6.8 installed, Windows 7 (through Boot Camp), and 2 FAT32 partitions. The extra two partitions are not visible to Windows 7, but they are visible on the OSX ...
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Access another network computer, after remoting into this one from outside?
I have a Jenkins instance running on machine-A.
On machine-B, I can go type the IP:port of machine-A into my browser, and access it just fine.
Machines A & B share a local network, behind a ...
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Can't ping VirtualBox Windows 7 VM from separate OS X machine
I have a VirtualBox VM running Windows 7 on one Macbook, and have tried unsuccessfully to ping the VM's IP from another Macbook. Here is what I've tried so far:
I have turned off the 2 Windows ...
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Running Windows 7 copied from old Boot camp Partition
I have a macbook pro mid 2012. I had the stock harddrive, 750 gb, with a 550 gb partition for osx and a 200 gb partition for windows/bootcamp. I got a new ssd 960 gb, with 750 gb for osx and 210 as a ...
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Swap operations and boot are much slower in Windows than in Mac OS
I have a MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011, where I have installed Windows 7 and Mac OS Lion in dual boot.
I have disabled Windows Pagefile because I have installed 16 GB RAM.
I cannot figure out why ...
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Shutdown Windows 7 PC from Mac terminal
How can I shut down a Windows 7 PC remotely from a Macbook Pro, OSX El Capitan?
I saw this question, where the most upvoted answer recommends using this command:
net rpc shutdown -I <IP of ...
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MBR protective to MBR hybrid OSX
Right to the point
I wanted to install W10, but it said that it doesn't like my gpt partition. So, with the help of gdisk, I followed this tutorial MBR hybrid to MBR protective
Buuuuut it turns out ...
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Change Virtual Machine hardware?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit and running Mac OS X Yosemite inside a virtual machine. However inside that virtual mac I need to run Windows inside a Virtual machine. (I am doing something for a friend ...
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macbook pro does not see bootable USB
A friend's macbook pro 2008 no longer boots its windows installation. It is double booted to mac and windows
To fix the problem (attempt startup repair) I created a USB drive using Rufus 2.5
USB ...
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How can I trash a “windows.old” folder in Mac OS X?
I deleted the windows.old folder when I am in Mac OS X and it is now in the trash. However, I found neither can I empty the trash nor put the folder back to the drive with Windows installed.
If I ...
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Change screen resolution from RDC session
I connect remotely to two workstations (different projects) from my OS X (El Capitan; 10.11) computer:
Client A
Citrix Receiver/Viewer for Mac OSX 12.0.0 (321559)
Microsoft Remote Desktop (Windows; ...
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Remote Desktop: PC (2 screens) --> Mac (1 screen)
I have what I believe is a fringe case, but it would be cool to find a solution. I have a Windows machine that I would like to use to connect over my home network to a Mac laptop I have. This I can ...
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Mac OS X host OS not able to ping Windows 7 guest OS on VirtualBox VM
I have Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) as the host machine, I have installed VirtualBox and created a virtual machine with Windows 7 64-bit.
I have created 2 network adapters on the virtual machine, shown ...
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Make existing W7 ISO bootable on Mac?
Goal:
Make an image of my current Windows 7 partition (used on my forensic dell laptop) and place it on my late 2009 mac mini as a dual boot. (OSX 10.10 - Crucial 8gb ram and 250gb SSD).
I know I ...
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OS X right click / define on ubuntu and windows 7
I have been an OS X user for a long time and really gotten used to a lot of features that Apple has to offer. At work I have to keep switching between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04. One of the most ...
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Problems with Boot Camp and Windows 7 in Yosemite
I've just installed a SSD drive of 500 GB replacing the superdrive. On it I've installed Yosemite and it works fine. Further I've the original HDD with another OS X Yosemite (in the future it will be ...
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Storage requirements for booting Windows 10 on a Mac running OS X Yosemite
I have read a few articles that state that, for booting Windows 10 (using either Boot Camp or rEFIt/rEFInd) on a Mac, you should have at least 30GiB free of disk space, and at least a 16-20GiB flash ...
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Why does sound say it's working but isn't in windows 7 bootcamp?
I recently installed windows 7 home premium in bootcamp on os x Yosemite. The sound driver is working and everything. The sound appears to be working. I don't hear anything though. I have the volume ...
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