macbook wont start

[theKumba]

So I'll get a macbook pro 13" retina for christmas and I am allowed to set it up since I won't have any internet when I acutally get it.

Since I need windows to run Visual Studio I wanted to install it via Bootcamp. In the first place everything went fine, but when the pc booted into the Windows setup it said that the partition wasn't windows compatible or something like that.

What I did was exiting the setup and shutting the PC down to boot into osx agian.

Now here is the problem: It won't boot into osx. All it says on the screen is "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" I have no idea how to solve this problem and didn't find a single solution on my own.

I hope someone here can help me.

[Guest]

Boot into windows and install bootcamp tools. Then click on the icon in the task bar and click reboot in Mac OS.

 

Alternatively boot into the recovery partition and select the correct startup disk.

[theKumba]

Boot into windows and install bootcamp tools. Then click on the icon in the task bar and click reboot in Mac OS.

 

Alternatively boot into the recovery partition and select the correct startup disk.

The problem is that I can't install windows on the partition created by bootcamp. It says that it isn't ntfs.

[Guest]

The problem is that I can't install windows on the partition created by bootcamp. It says that it isn't ntfs.

 

 

Then boot into the recovery partition, and select the Mac OS boot disk, wipe your boot camp partition and start again.

[theKumba]

 

 

 

Then boot into the recovery partition, and select the Mac OS boot disk, wipe your boot camp partition and start again.

 

I'll try that. Thanks.

[Akolyte]

I'll try that. Thanks.

You can access disk utility in the recovery partition.  Make sure not to delete the recovery partition and also, make sure to make an OSX disk so you can boot into recovery from the bootable disk if your recovery partition gets all funky.  

[Guest]

I had to do that once before, but it worked when I tried again. I think it is normal but I would recommend before you go any further to get some sort of backup setup or just clone your internal disk to an external one via disk utility.

[NicekillBG]

get a pc

[theKumba]

So I think I just gave up installing windows via bootcamp. I managed to access osx via the drive selector on startup and now I want to get the 20 gigs I reserved for windows back to my main parition.

(I should have wished a Windows notebook in the first place)

I can't delete the partition I wanted to install windows on and I can't add the free space to the main partition.

I'm really sorry for bugging you like that.

@cox1000 @Mike_The_B0ss

[Guest]

So I think I just gave up installing windows via bootcamp. I managed to access osx via the drive selector on startup and now I want to get the 20 gigs I reserved for windows back to my main parition.

(I should have wished a Windows notebook in the first place)

I can't delete the partition I wanted to install windows on and I can't add the free space to the main partition.

I'm really sorry for bugging you like that.

@cox1000 @Mike_The_B0ss

 

 

 

 

you should be able to delete the partition using the bootcamp utility

[theKumba]

you should be able to delete the partition using the bootcamp utility

Okay, so after looking into osx for another couple of hours I managed to get everything right. I got parallels for 40$ with an education discount (Highschools are the best ) and managed to install Windows that way. Also after some time I figured out how to repartition the hard drive.

Thanks for the help.

[DEDRICK]

I use rEFit http://refit.sourceforge.net/ on my macbook for booting.  It removes the need for Bootcamp(You still need the bootcamp downlload for windows) and has tools for partitioning and such