At what point can I remove the USB stick to start the upgrade on the next PC? Do I need to wait until the entire upgrade is finished, or does Windows have all the necessary files on the upgrading PC at one point, and if so, how can I tell when to unplug the stick?
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Early on in the process Windows will copy all the files it needs from the USB drive to your hard drive. Typically when the first reboot starts, you can remove it. In the unlikely event that the installation process needs it again, it will ask for it.
Wasn't paying attention when it got to that process and it started all over again right before my eyes. So when it gets to the end of the second process "#2" on the screen, you can yank the USB out and it should be good.
After experimenting, I've successfully removed the installation media immediately after the "Copying Windows Files" stage, IE, as soon as "getting file ready for installation" starts. I've done this on all the computers and suffered no ill effects.
Should I remove Windows 7 first and how can I do this, before deleting my Virtual Machine? I am using Vmware Fusion 6 on a Macbook Pro running OS 10.9.5. As faculty for a university I am licensed to use Office 365 for Mac so I understand that I no longer need to have a copy of Windows on my Mac nor do I need to use VMware Fusion 6. Sadly my Macbook Pro runs very very slowly when using my virtual machine. I do not access Windows 7 through Bootcamp and my machine is NOT partitioned. After removing Windows and not leaving bits and parts, what is the best way to delete the Virtual Machine? I will say that those in tech support have been very kind. Thanks for your help.
I have Windows 8 pre-installed, and then I installed GRUB with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not my thing, so now I want to remove it along with GRUB. From what I have learned, with UEFI, GRUB does not overwrite the windows bootloader in the EFI partition and is stored elsewhere. How would I remove GRUB and make my PC use the Windows bootloader instead? It should be noted that I created a separate /boot partition when installing Ubuntu.
Enter powershell into the windows search of the start menu. Look for a blue icon with the label "Windows PowerShell", right click on the that and select "Run as Administrator" within the context menu.
With UEFI you have both a Windows folder & an Ubuntu folder in the efi partition. the UEFI reads the efi entries and adds them to its own NVRAM to remember them. You have to remove ubuntu folder from efi partition first or UEFI will re-add it. Then you have to remove UEFI entry from UEFI.
You should have these folders in the efi partition. Delete only the ubuntu folder. Live installer should show folders. And if only Windows you have to mount from inside Windows the efi partition as it is not normally mounted.
3: If you've done everything right up to this point you should see (depending on your computer) your splash screen for a second and then it will turn into an error screen saying that there was an error with the boot. ("Winload.exe is missing or corrupted" most likly).
You can simply delete all the partitions but there may be entries in the EFI flash memory that may need removing. If you do keep the EFI boot partition and Linux partitions remove the Windows directory from the FAT EFI boot partition
(macOS Sierra 10.12.2) I have a 2015 15" rMBP with the 500GB SSD. I originally had 350 GB of free space left in total so yesterday I made a Windows 10 partition with Boot Camp for 110GB. This should have left me with around 240GB left. Today the Windows 10 decided to mess itself up and needs to be restored, so I would figure I would go into Boot Camp Assistant and just remove the partition entirely so I can re-do it. However I am met with the 'Restore Disk to a Single Volume' and it is just showing my macOS drive. It says the disk will be partitioned as macOS with 490GB. That's not right, because I had used about 140GB of space previously. I don't want it to delete my files and apps. Boot Camp Assistant is not noticing the BOOTCAMP disk even though it's sitting on my desktop and I can see it. I can also see it with the NTFS for Mac OS X program and it's in Disk Utility. FWIW, Disk Utility is calling it an "Uninitialized Windows NT Filesystem".
Is there some way I can maybe boot into Windows & restore it with the ISO from my Mac? Or will I have to use an external drive? Will erasing the volume with Disk Utility or NTFS mess up my SSD? Ideally I'd like to remove the partition and start over.
However, since I've never used Boot Camp before (and a quick search said to re-run the assistant to remove the partition) - I'm stumped as to it not appearing in Boot Camp Assistant as it should. I'd love to know why it's not showing there but at this point I would like to know the best option to remove this partition. According to this site there should be some kind of option to uninstall Windows. I want to know why that first step is missing (hitting continue takes it straight to the photo I showed previously).
I'd love to know why it's not showing there but at this point I would like to know the best option to remove this partition. According to this site there should be some kind of option to uninstall Windows. I want to know why that first step is missing (hitting continue takes it straight to the photo I showed previously).
There has never been an option to uninstall Windows, but a remove option. You are most likely confused between variations in Bootcamp UI. Please see Bootcamp User Interface . If you run the BC Assistant on your specific model, there is a 'Restore' option. On older Macs, there is a Install / Remove options as detected by BC Assistant.
Anyhow, uninstall/remove/(insert similar term), that doesn't show up. I used the BC assistant to install Windows 10 from an ISO (straight from Windows' site), and it was working fine until a little earlier today for whatever reason.
Did you see this screen during your installation sequence? The BC UI is driven by Mac Model Identifiers and can be different for different models. I have a 2012 Mac which shows this, but a 2015 Mac should show the screen in my document link.
Yes, that is the screen I saw during the installation. To remove the Windows partition without BC is the bad route, but I've used Disk Utility for a long time for a whole bunch of disk related dilemma, at least I know what I'd be getting into there. This is possible, but at that point I'd probably do a clean install of the OS instead. Suppose I'll bite the bullet and see if BCA does what I want it to do, and then I'll probably stay away from it in the future.
Step 4: Other software like antivirus programs, or any programs or image files that remain open on the drive (even Windows Explorer if its window is open and displaying the contents of the external drive) can prevent safe removal. Close all programs and any open files or windows displaying the drive contents and attempt to remove the drive again.
If so, the hard drive does not need to be Safely Removed manually from the system. Just turn off the hard drive or disconnect it at your convenience whenever the hard drive is not busy transferring data.
This way there is only a slim chance that the partition will be corrupted by a removal. This carries no risk for the drive hardware, but it does put your data at a small risk.
Please remember that you would be very unwise to put yourself in a situation where that is a concern for you. If this drive were to experience a sudden mechanical or electronic failure or if it should fall, or if the drive's partition should become corrupted, your data could be lost and data recovery is very expensive. Remember that this is a backup drive, and a backup is defined as "a second copy of data in a second storage media".
Whether on a second external hard drive, a CD or DVD, an internal hard drive, a network hard drive, or tape, make a 2nd copy of your data today and keep it.
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