Mini Mac bootcamp fail and no bootable device

I’ve followed instructions but windows fail to install and now I’m stuck with no bootable device, I tried to reboot using all commands and doesn’t go to selections where to choose to boot from Mac OS what can I do?

Posted on Mar 19, 2021 8:37 AM

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RUSD tech

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Mar 19, 2021 8:52 AM in response to Paupop

Assuming your Mac OS partition is intact:

Restart your Mac.
Immediately press and hold the Option key. After a few seconds, the Startup Manager appears. If you don’t see the volume you want to use, wait a few moments for Startup Manager to finish scanning connected drives.

See if your Mac has the Mac bootable partition:

Paupop Author

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Mar 19, 2021 8:58 AM in response to RUSD tech

Thank you for the quick response,

I have achieve to boot from Mac OS now but it didn’t appear a bootable boot camp so I decided to start boot camp assistant again let’s hope the windows installer doesn’t crash this time

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