Default Boot Is to Windows not High Sierra

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Default Boot Is to Windows not High Sierra

Looking at How to switch between Windows and macOS in macOS High Sierra - Apple Support my Win10 partition is on the left side and my High Sierra (APFS) partition is on the right -- while in their graphic it's the other way around. As a result when I restart from Win10 or from High Sierra (or do a shutdown, and start up) it defaults to Win10 every time.

My solution is to hold the Option key when I restart; then it defaults to High Sierra. But is there any way to make High Sierra the default without a complete reinstall, which I'd rather not undertake?

Phil

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 4, 2017 10:02 AM

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w7ox Author

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Nov 4, 2017 3:31 PM in response to Loner T

I disabled Paragon NTFS in System Preferences and sure enough, problem solved. Default boot is now into High Sierra🙂

Many thanks!

Phil

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Answer 2

Nov 4, 2017 10:11 AM in response to w7ox

Hope this helps:

In macOS, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Startup Disk.
Select the startup disk that has the default operating system you want to use.
If you want to start up using the default operating system now, click Restart.

– Start up your Mac in Windows or macOS - Apple Support

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w7ox Author

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Nov 4, 2017 3:22 PM in response to Loner T

Yes! This one. But I also had it installed under Sierra with no such issues. Would removing it solve my problem? Might as well give it a try!

Later: I disabled Paragon in System Preferences and sure enough, problem solved. Default boot is now into High Sierra🙂

Many thanks!

Phil

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Loner T

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Nov 4, 2017 2:38 PM in response to w7ox

w7ox wrote:

It looks like this:

This is usually the picture if you use a third-party NTFS driver which has control of your NTFS partition, not the native Apple NTFS driver on the macOS side. Do you have any of the following installed - Paragon NTFS, NTFS-3g, MacDrive or similar products?

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w7ox Author

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Nov 4, 2017 12:19 PM in response to Loner T

BTW .. this is what I get at boot up when I hit option:

Seems: 1) They should be in the reverse order; and 2) The arrow under Mac SSD says it is the default boot, which apparently it is not.

No such issue with MacOS 10.12.6!

Phil

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Loner T

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Nov 4, 2017 3:21 PM in response to w7ox

w7ox wrote:

Yes! This one. But I also had it installed under Sierra with no such issues. Would removing it solve my problem? Might as well give it a try!

Which one? You can un-install 'this' one and test. It can be re-installed, if you want it back.

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w7ox Author

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Nov 4, 2017 6:06 PM in response to Loner T

Will do. I did check to see if I have the latest version, and I do. Now I need to read the documentation. And, really, I don't often use its capabilities so no urgency at this point.

Mainly, I was thinking of reverting to macOS 10.12.6 (easy, but not pleasing) and now, thanks to your input, I won't have to 🙂

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