To do this, head to the Startup Disk preference setting in Settings.Įvery time the Mac starts, you can also toggle between OS X and Windows by holding down the Option (Alt) key immediately upon startup. Once you have Windows installed, you can set the default OS that will start each time you boot your Mac. Set the Default Startup OS or Toggle Between OS X and Windows
The Mac will need to restart to complete the process and will automatically boot into Windows 10 when it's done. Follow the prompts to finish installing Windows. I know there's a way to get that key from my dead windows partition if I could boot up into it, but otherwise, I really need that key, and I'd prefer to not pay to get a new one.7. Except, I don't have my old install disk from years ago anymore, and since I don't have another PC accessible to me, I can't download an iso to burn since I don't have a key. So, my next step was to nuke everything and reinstall windows. No safe mode or any variation thereof, and the startup fixing utility that I've started into a couple of times doesn't do the trick, and neither does restoring to a old restore point. Except this time, something somewhere went wrong and after chkdsk finished, I am no longer able to boot into windows at all. But this time, windows booted up into chkdsk, which, again, isn't much of an issue usually since this has always sorted itself out and I boot up just fine after chkdsk does its thing. You know, the ol' "turn it off and on again" solution. On Macs with Apple co-processors including the MacBook Air (M1, 2020): it is actually a little bit easier to put the machine. Here, this post will help you fix the Command R not working issue. At this point, the computer will boot up and open the recovery mode.
Then, you can enter macOS Recovery Mode again.
This usually isn't much of an issue since i'm using an older 2011 macbook pro using bootcamp, and a restart solves the issue nearly 100% of the time. Solutions to make Command R workable again What to do when Command R not working on Mac/MacBook: In addition, it enables you to factory reset your Mac or reinstall macOS even if Command-R doesn't work. So, just recently, my computer (I should mention I was running under the windows bootcamp partition) was running slower than usual. So, before you disregard this thread and say "hey, buddy, shouldn't you be contacting Microsoft support about this sort of issue?" just know you'd be completely right if I hadn't already contacted them and being told that they can't do squat since my issue is on an apple machine.
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