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Macbook Pro Late 2011 running High Sierra, Windows 10 flashing cursor on boot after installing Paragon NTFS 15

Macbook Pro Late 2011 15" has been dual booting Windows 10 and High Sierra just fine. Windows 10 partition was running out of space. I installed Paragon HFS+ on Windows to see my MacOS / OS X partition. Installed fine, but it couldn't find the partition.


So, I booted into High Sierra and installed Paragon NTFS 15. My hope was to move some files from the Mac side to the Windows side to decrease the Mac partition. Paragon NTFS 15 seemed to work. I decided to use it to select Windows as my default boot OS. But when the Macbook restarted I got the "no bootable device" black screen.


Booted back into Mac and uninstalled NTFS 15 but problem still lingers.


I've had something similar happen before about 8 months ago, and somehow fixed it by following several posts from Loner T here on the Apple Communities Discussions. I tried following along again. Booted from my Windows 10 official CD, made my way to command prompt, and did "some stuff" with diskpart and list disk and I think I've made the problem worse now because the "No bootable device" screen has changed to a single flashing white underscore cursor on a black screen.


My goal is to free up as much space on my Mac partition and shrink that partition as much as possible to get more space for Windows. I don't want to fresh install Windows as I have a lot of customizations going on already.


I've included some terminal output and screenshots that might help:


Last login: Thu Nov 16 11:22:22 on console

Jamess-Mac:~ Admin$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 200.7 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS Untitled 124.3 GB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 174.7 GB disk0s4


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +200.7 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume JMH SSD MacBook Pro 154.2 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.0 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 518.1 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 8.6 GB disk1s4


/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: CCSA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5 *4.3 GB disk2


Jamess-Mac:~ Admin$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found


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For this image below I chose the Windows CD/DVD option, not EFI Boot


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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 16, 2017 11:59 AM

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Nov 22, 2017 4:36 AM in response to jamesh53

jamesh53 wrote:


Fixed! I had to boot into the Windows 10 DVD and within command prompt make the windows partition active. Then the /FixBoot and /FixMBR commands worked. Then I had to run /RebuildBcd and select "Yes" and it let me boot right back into Windows 10 the way I left it with all the new space available.

Please remember to back up macOS, Windows and create a Windows System Restore point.



Question: Could I boot into GParted, delete the OS X partition completely, and then absorb that space and repeat the process so that I have my MacBook running ONLY Windows 10?

Yes, you can, but then you have one of the most expensive Windows PCs on the planet. 😉

Macbook Pro Late 2011 running High Sierra, Windows 10 flashing cursor on boot after installing Paragon NTFS 15

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