How to edit startup manager menu

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How to edit startup manager menu

Hi,

I installed Bootcamp/Windows and had an un-successful try, then tried again and all went OK. I now have 2 windows icons when I boot in the startup menu. The one takes me to windows and the other on a black screen saying "missing operating system", which is noraml since I can have only one instance of windows. I removed bootcamp and the icons are now one windows, the second one. I cannot get rid of this icon in the startup menu.

I tried some guides here but not success. Any ideas on how to edit the staryp menu and delete this bootcamp entry?

Thanx in advance,

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 12, 2012 11:41 AM

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Csound1

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Dec 12, 2012 12:26 PM in response to akatsim

Post a screenshot of your partitions (from Disk Utility)

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Dec 12, 2012 12:46 PM in response to Csound1

OK. I have 2 disks, 1 SSD for boot where I do bootcamp and a data in superdrive place.

Here is my diskutil and the screen shot, I have removed the bootcamp partition.

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac OS X 255.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: Apple_HFS Data 1.0 TB disk1s1

User uploaded file

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Dec 12, 2012 12:43 PM in response to akatsim

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t422/akatsim/Screenshot1212121037mumu.jpeg

Here is the pic

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Csound1

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Dec 12, 2012 12:44 PM in response to akatsim

Your screenshot does not appear, did you insert it using the camera icon (right under the red text that says)

Is disk1 empty?

And most important, do you have backups?

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Csound1

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Dec 12, 2012 12:46 PM in response to akatsim

akatsim wrote:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t422/akatsim/Screenshot1212121037mumu.jpeg

Here is the pic

Select the 1tb drive instead of the SSD

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Dec 12, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Csound1

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t422/akatsim/1tb.jpeg

here is the 1TB.

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Csound1

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Dec 12, 2012 12:55 PM in response to akatsim

Erase the 1tb drive, set the partition map as GUID, 1 partition, set the format as Mac OSX Extended (Journaled), Erase. Reboot to the Boot Manager menu and check that the Boot Camp icon is gone.

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