Oct 16, 2015 Having a hard time going back to OS X from Windows 10 on your mac? Here is how to return to OS X from boot camp. Boot camp could not locate mac os.
Let’s be honest: to the average person, the idea of running two different operating systems at the same time on one computer is pretty weird. This idea naturally leads to questions like these:
- How do I know which one I’m using at any one moment?
- How do I switch between them?
- Which applications do I use?
And of course:
- Why would I want to do that?
As a Parallels Desktop® for Mac user, you can probably answer the last two questions like this:
- Switching between Mac and Windows Operating System:- You can go back and forth between macOS and Windows on your Mac, but you can’t run both OS simultaneously under Boot Camp. Instead, you have to boot one operating system or the other — thus, the name Boot Camp.
- I installed windows 10 using bootcamp, which resized the macOS partition and created a 80GB windows partition. The machine boots into windows just fine. Unfortunately I can't go back to macOS because the macOS partition is not selectable as a boot source in bootcamp and 'boot into X' boots into windows.
- Once you've set up Boot Camp, you have three different ways to make the switch between partitions. Let's look at these based on their starting points. If you're in Windows, you can switch to the Mac OS X partition using the Boot Camp icon in the System Tray. Click the gray diamond-shaped icon, and click 'Restart in Mac OS' from the pop-up menu.
- Because I need to run some Windows applications, and I have (and love) a Mac®.
But you might not know all the ways you can switch between Mac and Windows, so in this blog post I’ll show you. Which one of these ways you might use depends on how you use Parallels Desktop.
1. Window Mode
In Window mode, Windows runs in a window on your Mac screen.
You switch between Mac and Windows just be moving your cursor—what could be easier! See Video 1:
2. Full Screen Mode
In Full Screen mode, both Mac and Windows fill the entire screen. You switch between them with a three-finger swipe on your trackpad. See Video 2 (Note: The hand gesture video insets are from lifehacker.com):
3. Coherence Mode
In Coherence mode, Mac and Windows applications run side-by-side on the Mac desktop. Little snitch.kext. You switch between them just as you would switch between two Mac applications: just click inside the window of the application you want to use. See Video 3:
I hope these three ways help you to easily and quickly switch between Mac and Windows whenever you want.
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Once you've set up Boot Camp, you have three different ways to make the switch between partitions. Let's look at these based on their starting points.
If you're in Windows, you can switch to the Mac OS X partition using the Boot Camp icon in the System Tray. Click the gray diamond-shaped icon, and click 'Restart in Mac OS' from the pop-up menu. Then, confirm your choice to reboot to Mac OS X and give the computer about a minute to make the switch.
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If you're in Mac OS X, you can switch to the Windows partition using the Startup Disk utility within System Preferences. In the Startup Disk, choose the 'Windows on BOOTCAMP' partition, and click 'Restart.' Then, confirm your choice to reboot to Windows and give the computer about a minute to make the switch.
If the Mac was powered off, you can choose which partition to boot before the Mac selects for you. To do this, press the Option key on the Mac while it's on the blank white boot screen. Within a couple of seconds, the Mac should present the two partitions to you on the screen. Use the arrow keys to select a partition, and press Enter to boot to it. This Option key feature is available either when booting from a powered-off state or if you're rebooting from Windows.
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