Hi all,
I run a copy of Win8 in a Bootcamp partition with Parallels 8 on my Macbook Pro and deleted the Windows.old folder manually in Finder through Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) rather than through the disk cleanup and now Win8 wont startup. I now get stuck in the Auto Repair and none of the Advanced features seem to work.
I originally installed via a Win8 upgrade bootable USB and that isn't being recognised by the Auto Repair when i try to restore.
I don't mind losing the data in the partition (i only use it to run a Windows program needed for work), but the issue here is that i don't have an original Win7 image anywhere to reinstall - only the Win8 Upgrade bootable USB thumb.
Is there any way i can fix this without having to find a full image of either Win7 or Win8 and reinstalling from scratch? Is it failing to boot up because for some reason things were still pointing to the Windows.old folder? I read on other Windows forums that deleting the Windows.old folder should not cause any problems?
Also, maybe related - the files in the OSX trash were not all emptyable. For some reason there are some files there that won't empty no matter what i do - and if i Get Info seems they are actually located in /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes rather than ./Trash for some reason?
If i eject the Bootcamp partition the files dont appear in Trash anymore.
What have i done?
Please help.
I run a copy of Win8 in a Bootcamp partition with Parallels 8 on my Macbook Pro and deleted the Windows.old folder manually in Finder through Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) rather than through the disk cleanup and now Win8 wont startup. I now get stuck in the Auto Repair and none of the Advanced features seem to work.
I originally installed via a Win8 upgrade bootable USB and that isn't being recognised by the Auto Repair when i try to restore.
I don't mind losing the data in the partition (i only use it to run a Windows program needed for work), but the issue here is that i don't have an original Win7 image anywhere to reinstall - only the Win8 Upgrade bootable USB thumb.
Is there any way i can fix this without having to find a full image of either Win7 or Win8 and reinstalling from scratch? Is it failing to boot up because for some reason things were still pointing to the Windows.old folder? I read on other Windows forums that deleting the Windows.old folder should not cause any problems?
Also, maybe related - the files in the OSX trash were not all emptyable. For some reason there are some files there that won't empty no matter what i do - and if i Get Info seems they are actually located in /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes rather than ./Trash for some reason?
If i eject the Bootcamp partition the files dont appear in Trash anymore.
What have i done?
Please help.
