Q: "Missing Operating System" Error
Hello all. I am attempting to dual boot a late 2013 macbook pro with windows 10 and el capitan. I need to be able to run windows 10 to use certain programs required by my university. I have actually been able to setup my computer fully, so that it is working on both partitions perfectly, but within a few days the windows partition seems to fail. This has happened three times now, and with each failure I have completely wiped the partition and started from scratch. The error I receive seems to be completely random, and occurs when I turn my computer off, turn it on, and try to boot the "Windows" partition. It reads "Missing Operating System _".
To install Windows 10 to begin with, I used the boot camp assistant tool to make a partition of 100GB out of my 500GB drive. I went through the process in boot camp and created a bootable usb from the windows 10 iso image. I booted from the USB, and installed windows and everything was working perfectly. I did have to delete the partition that the boot camp assistant created and create a new one from the unallocated space on my hard drive with the usb boot because it would not allow me to install windows on the partition that boot camp originally created. I installed all the drivers through the bootcamp tool that popped up once windows 10 was installed and everything was all good. I performed all of the updates to Windows 10 through the settings and then I performed all of the app updates through the store. I installed about 4 basic applications; this includes chrome, iTunes, and uTorrent.
There seems to be no problems with my el capitan partition whatsoever, and I have been completely unable to find anything on the internet to help me with this problem. I have chatted with both microsoft support and apple support. I was told that "It seems that the operating system on the Windows side is having an issue staying setup and that is causing the issue" by apple support. I was also told by the microsoft that "maybe microsoft and apple cannot work together in one machine :-)".
Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
John
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), Windows 10 as well
Posted on Jul 12, 2016 9:12 PM
A Windows System Restore point is not the same as a backup. Winclone will give you a backup, while a Restore point is closer to a snapshot.
Please see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378910(v=vs.85).aspx
Clonezilla would also work, but it will clone the entire disk.
Posted on Jul 17, 2016 3:35 PM







