a startup box will appear click on boot, there will be two startup options. Hiya guys seems you have a problem well I have a solution. If you don't want to delete it, it at least looks like you can also make the countdown shorter. Just as an FYI I found the below from another website to clear up the extra boot option. I had to download the bootcamp drivers onto a usb from the apple site while in osx and boot back into windows and install them because the network and sound and card reader didint work until i did that. I must still have copies of the install files in there along with the windows OS.Įither way it works and if im not watching the machine it counts down and boots windows rather then setup so i wont accidentally run the setup again. Now the strange thing is when i did that it started the install again and finished and worked so i have Win8.1 working and bootable, BUT, every time i boot into the windows partition i have two options to enter windows setup or to boot windows. Once that was done i rebooted my macbook again, this time selecting the windows option from the rEFIt screen. Then deleted the remaining files and copied everything from my win8.1 iso into the bootcamp partition. "defaults write AppleShowAllFiles YES"Īnd restarted finder by pressing the apple logo in the top left,selecting force quit, highlighting finder and clicking relaunch. I entered this command into terminal as mentioned in a previous post to make all files visible While trying to copy the files I got an error saying i couldnt move "blah blah" files because they were invisible. Then i followed the step to delete all the files and folders that werent locked in the bootcamp partition. I restarted my mabook and made sure it booted into osx on the rEFIt screen. I watched it like a hawk as it was expanding files and installing and as soon as it tried to reboot I shut down virtual box. I started the virtual machine and installed windows.
Under Attributes on the right i clicked the little picture of the CD and located my windows 8.1 ISO. Then in virtual box with the new machine highlighted i navigated to settings-storage-controller IDE and selected the empty virtual CD Drive.
Once I got the HDD partitioned and followed all the other steps I created a virtual machine for win 8.1. I had to edit bootcamp so it would let me create a bootable usb (which i didnt even use but bootcamp wont let me partition the drive until its created the bootable media) and then partition the HDD My main problem was that the SATA cable for my HDD failed so i had my HDD mounted in the superdrive bay. Hopefully if i make my version of problems and solutions as clear as i can it will help others.
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