Q: Yosemite broke Boot Camp, but in a different way than everyone else's
I'm quite baffled here, folks. I have used my 2011 iMac primarily as an HTPC in Windows for several years now (used to be a graphic designer, so buying an iMac made sense at the time...). I happened to be on the Mac side a few weeks ago, and installed Yosemite on a whim, and subsequently had it destroy Boot Camp. I quickly discovered this was a widespread problem, but the more I dug in on possible solutions, the less hopeful I was that I'd be able to recover without a nuke-n-pave solution. Part of my hopelessness was that my problem seemed to be different than most other peoples'. It seems that most folks had their partition disappear entirely, but I never had that problem. Instead, my computer just refused to boot into Windows. I could always see the Bootcamp partition, I just couldn't boot into it. At restart, I would do my normal Alt-hold down, see the Windows option, but it would immediately go to a black screen with no cursor, and would just sit there indefinitely.
I eventually gave up and reformatted and reinstalled Windows, and had everything almost back to where it was, when a couple days ago, it did it again! Randomly, it stopped booting into Windows, getting hung up at the black screen with no cursor. I read that this black screen with no cursor often has to do with video drivers, so I tried reinstalling Windows again in case I had somehow messed things up with the video drivers. Now, it goes immediately to the black screen during the Boot Camp Assistant Windows installation process. No Windows set up process, no nothing. I'm at a complete loss as to how to even get Windows working on my machine at all now.
It all went south when I installed Yosemite a few weeks ago...
Any help or enlightenment would be much appreciated!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Windows 7
Posted on Jan 19, 2015 4:26 PM
Dear Lord. All this trouble, and all I had to do was unplug my external HD...wow...
Thanks for the help Loner T.
Posted on Jan 19, 2015 7:38 PM