themitch99
Level 1
(0 points)
Q: No longer see Windows bootcamp in Mac System Preferences
So I just made the silly mistake of bootcamping into my Windows 7 partition and upgrading to Windows 8.1 (I now know I should have upgraded through bootcamp, or something). All went well, except, obviously, there were no bootcamp options in Windows Control Panel enabling me to set it to use my macbook pro trackpad properly. That's ok, I thought, I'll boot back into Yosemite and I'm sure there'll be an option to install bootcamp settings back into Windows.
Oh dear, not only was there no option to install any bootcamp control panel settings in windows, but in fact the bootcamp in yosemite didn't seem to be aware of my Windows partition?!? In the 'Startup Disk' section in System Preferences, where previously there was both 'Macintosh HD OSX 10.10.1' and some reference to Windows or bootcamp, there is now just the Mac?!?!
The other partition is there - I can boot between the two operating systems by holding the Alt key down during a reboot.
So my question is, how can get the mac to recognise that there is a bootcamp windows 8.1 disk? And how do I get bootcamp/macbook pro trackpad settings on the windows side?
Thanks in advance.
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Loner T
Level 7
(24,815 points)
You can upgrade a self-contained W7 to W8.1. Try to re-install the W7 drivers and report back any failures. If the W8 was an upgrade, not a clean install, it should have preserved the drivers. Can you check for unknown devices in Device Manager (yellow triangle with exclamation mark)?
