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Windows 10 "Reset This PC" boots using Option, but not using Startup Disk

Hi,

I clean installed my MacBook Pro 15 Retina (Late 2013) with El Capitan. I then attempted a BootCamp install of Windows 10. Everything worked fine. I can boot into Windows and Mac easily, and using the "Startup Disk" option in El Capitan works to boot into Windows.


I then ran "Reset This PC" from Windows (due to activation issues... now resolved). After doing this, I can still boot into Windows using the Option key (choose Windows from the 2 choices), but if I set Startup Disk from Mac OS, I get:

NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY


Please help! I really wish I could remotely switch between Windows and Mac OS, but I can't b/c using Startup Disk kills the boot to Windows.


Thanks in advance!

Noah


Here's the output of BCDEDIT /enum /v from within Windows 10:

Windows Boot Manager

--------------------

identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}

device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1

path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}

default {28ffe6d6-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

resumeobject {28ffe6d5-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

displayorder {28ffe6d6-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

bootsequence {28ffe6d4-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}

timeout 0



Windows Boot Loader

-------------------

identifier {28ffe6d6-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

device partition=C:

path \Windows\system32\winload.efi

description Windows 10

locale en-US

inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}

recoverysequence {28ffe6d1-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

recoveryenabled Yes

isolatedcontext Yes

allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075

osdevice partition=C:

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {28ffe6d5-6dc1-11e5-bbdc-fe9c6609e66f}

nx OptIn

bootmenupolicy Standard


Here's the output of sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0 (p, r, o):

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: protective

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.


Command (? for help): p

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 490234752 sectors, 233.8 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 2A1DE5F7-F484-4F89-8DB1-BDF855FD3A2B

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 490234718

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 1821 sectors (910.5 KiB)


Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 243322151 115.8 GiB AF05 Macintosh HD

3 243322152 244591687 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 244592640 490233855 117.1 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP


Command (? for help): r


Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o


Disk size is 490234752 sectors (233.8 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0x00000000

MBR partitions:


Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code

1 1 490234751 primary 0xEE


Here's the output of sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0:

Disk: /dev/rdisk0geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 490234751] <Unknown ID>

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused


Here's the output of gpt show /dev/rdisk0:

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 242912512 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

243322152 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

244591688 952

244592640 245641216 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

490233856 863

490234719 32 Sec GPT table

490234751 1 Sec GPT header

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 8, 2015 3:17 PM

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Oct 8, 2015 8:37 PM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner,


Thanks for all of you help. In the end I at least have a workaround by running bless manually:

sudo bless --folder=/Volumes/efi --file=/Volumes/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi --setBoot


This gets it to boot back to Windows, but I don't understand why bless --getBoot --verbose gives errors. The little bit I think I understand is that "Startup Disk" insists on using legacy boot for bootcamp, whereas Windows 10 should be booting using EFI.


Noah

Windows 10 "Reset This PC" boots using Option, but not using Startup Disk

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