Has anyone had any issues with their boot camp partition after upgrading to High Sierra? I installed the High Sierra beta on my MacBook a few months ago and it totally frakked my Bootcamp partition. Was getting driver errors, registry errors, etc. I then wiped the whole computer and went to regular Sierra and re-installed Bootcamp.
Have people's upgrades been going smoothly? I assume it was just a beta issue, but I rely on my boot camp partition a great deal, so would like minimal downtime.
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High Sierra vs Bootcamp Partition
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, Sep 26 2017 08:00 AM
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Posted 26 September 2017 - 08:00 AM
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Posted 27 September 2017 - 12:14 PM
I'm upgrading today and rely on my Bootcamp partition as well, so I'll let you know how it goes.
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Eric5h5:
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 29 September 2017 - 08:25 PM
Update: Zero issues here booting natively into Bootcamp. Installed latest Bootcamp software, plus NVIDIA and Logitech drivers and a Windows update, and still no trouble. Next I'll give VMware Fusion 10 a try since I just upgraded my license from Fusion 8.
Update 2: Spoke too soon. Installed another Windows update and now when I use the restart in Mac OS utility, it informs me it can't locate the Mac boot volume. FFS. So, have to go back to MacOS by holding option on restart.
Update 2: Spoke too soon. Installed another Windows update and now when I use the restart in Mac OS utility, it informs me it can't locate the Mac boot volume. FFS. So, have to go back to MacOS by holding option on restart.
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Eric5h5:
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 30 September 2017 - 07:33 PM
Is this because you formatted to APFS?
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Posted 01 October 2017 - 12:15 AM
UmarOMC1, on 30 September 2017 - 07:33 PM, said:
Is this because you formatted to APFS?
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Posted 01 October 2017 - 01:33 PM
Being that my video card isn't flashed, if I get stuck in that situation it'll require my swapping in my backup GTX680 to see anything before the login screen. 
I'm going to have to really in the mood for some Far Cry 3 or Skyrim time.
I'm going to have to really in the mood for some Far Cry 3 or Skyrim time.
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Posted 01 October 2017 - 07:04 PM
UmarOMC1, on 30 September 2017 - 07:33 PM, said:
Is this because you formatted to APFS?
Unless I missed something, there's no option not to switch to APFS if you're on a SSD (I am).
Janichsan, on 01 October 2017 - 12:15 AM, said:
As the same problem seems to rear its ugly head randomly every time Apple releases a major OS X/macOS update, I don't think there's a connection. I had the problem when Mavericks was released, and if I recall correctly, tBC had it with either 10.10 or 10.11.
It appears this applies to everybody this time: https://support.appl.../en-us/HT208123
VMware Fusion 10 also can't start off my Bootcamp partition now. Ugh.
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Eric5h5:
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 02 October 2017 - 11:33 AM
Frost, on 01 October 2017 - 07:04 PM, said:
Unless I missed something, there's no option not to switch to APFS if you're on a SSD (I am).
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It appears this applies to everybody this time: https://support.appl.../en-us/HT208123
VMware Fusion 10 also can't start off my Bootcamp partition now. Ugh.
VMware Fusion 10 also can't start off my Bootcamp partition now. Ugh.
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Posted 02 October 2017 - 12:33 PM
I don't use bootcamp myself (so my boot SSD changing to APFS hasn't really mattered) but I was reading many posts during the betas about how there is no way for Windows to recognise the presence of an APFS disk so booting back to MacOS from within the OS isn't possible at this time.
The best solution at the moment would probably be to install High Sierra, make a clone on another disk, erase the disk (it must be an SSD as mechanical disks aren't changed during installation anyway) - and reformat it as HFS+ and clone back.
HFS+ support won't be disappearing anytime soon so you can get the other improvements without using the new file system.
The best solution at the moment would probably be to install High Sierra, make a clone on another disk, erase the disk (it must be an SSD as mechanical disks aren't changed during installation anyway) - and reformat it as HFS+ and clone back.
HFS+ support won't be disappearing anytime soon so you can get the other improvements without using the new file system.
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Posted 03 October 2017 - 10:44 AM
Frost, on 01 October 2017 - 07:04 PM, said:
VMware Fusion 10 also can't start off my Bootcamp partition now. Ugh.
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