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Computer Crashed While in Bootcamp Partition and Cannot Find Startup Disk (Screenshots)

Alright, so I used bootcamp to install Windows 7 Enterprise on my computer several months ago. I was using it tonight, and I noticed the bluebar at the bottom of the screen and all the icons on the desktop disappeared after several hours of normal use. I still had two windows of firefox open, but I needed to access the start menu. I turned off the computer and turned it back on. It loaded to the Windows 7 login screen fine. I didn't even log in, because I was doing something else. Two minutes later, it had the blue screen with white text. I turned it off and turned it back on, I got the message that said "No bootable disk --- insert boot disk and press any key" in white text on a black screen. Turned it off and on again, apple startup sound rings out, and the gray screen is there for several moments, but then it goes back to the black screen with that message on it.


Looked up the shortcut to get to the disk selection menu at startup (hold down the option key), and it ended up bringing me right to the recovery menu. Turned it off and tried again and it brought me back to the recovery menu. When I say recovery menu, I mean the internet recovery menu (I have a mid-2012 macbook pro). Plugged into a router and it loaded properly. Then I ran disk verification, and it said the image is okay. However, when I go to select disk startup, it's completely blank. Here are some screenshots:


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http://i61.tinypic.com/2hn1d9x.jpg


http://i58.tinypic.com/2em30hz.jpg


One thing stands out to me. I only have 38 Mb available? I'm not sure I understand what that means, but it's strange to me.


What do I need to do here?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Apr 12, 2015 4:02 AM

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Apr 12, 2015 5:05 AM in response to NetEngineer82

I restarted it to try and reset the NVRAM, and it randomly brought me to the "windows had an error screen" where you can choose to start normally. Shocked, I told it to restart normally, started up properly. I told it to restart in OS X. That loaded up fine and I got in. I used it for about half an hour and it started to get really slow. The same thing that happened on windows happened out of nowhere and all the icons disappeared. I restarted it, I got to the gray screen and a dark gray folder with a question mark appeared in the middle and started flashing.

Computer Crashed While in Bootcamp Partition and Cannot Find Startup Disk (Screenshots)

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