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Sep 12, 2015 7:14 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,If you use Option key, there should be two options Windows and EFI Boot. Can you choose Windows?
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Sep 12, 2015 7:16 AM in response to Loner Tby Mikerini,I have never seen the word Windows written in there . . . only EFI both for the USB Stick or the Windows partition
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Sep 12, 2015 7:18 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,You should see 3 or 4 options. Macintosh HD, Recovery HD, Windows and EFI Boot (the last two are from the USB with the USB Symbol).
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Sep 12, 2015 7:19 AM in response to Loner Tby Mikerini,I only have MAC (renamed from Macintosh HD), EFI (2nd HDD) and EFI (USB symbol)
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Sep 12, 2015 7:31 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,Is it possible to post diskutil list from OS X with the USB plugged in?
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Sep 12, 2015 7:36 AM in response to Mikeriniby Mikerini,This is a usb stick that i have just made MBR and FAT32 and it doesn't even recognise it when i boot with OPTION key
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Sep 12, 2015 8:05 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,Did both these USB sticks get built using BC Assistant?
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Sep 12, 2015 8:18 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,Mikerini wrote:
This is a usb stick that i have just made MBR and FAT32 and it doesn't even recognise it when i boot with OPTION key
Can you insert this disk and post the output of
diskutil list
sudo fdisk /dev/diskN
N points to the USB which is shown in the output of the first command.
Your Mac (2011) does not really support USB booting, so we will see such issues. Let us see what you get from the above two commands.
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Sep 12, 2015 8:42 AM in response to Loner Tby Mikerini,Maybe it only supports EFI boot.
Disk: /dev/disk3 geometry: 994/255/63 [15974400 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
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*1: 07 0 32 33 - 993 254 63 [ 2048 - 15972352] HPFS/QNX/AUX
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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Sep 12, 2015 10:42 AM in response to Mikeriniby Loner T,On my MBP, there are differences on my MBP using the BCA-created USB.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage OSY-MBP13 128.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 127.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS OSY-MBP13 +126.4 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
8A0116D5-7E1E-44D8-B2A0-8D4E4D48298D
Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 16.0 GB disk2s1
sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk2 geometry: 1946/255/63 [31266816 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
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*1: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 2 - 31266814] Win95 FAT-32
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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Sep 12, 2015 10:45 AM in response to Loner Tby Mikerini,I don't see any option that could let me make bootable usb from BCA
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