Tag: bootcamp
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Selecting a startup disk when you put a firmware password on a Windows single-boot Mac
Usually, when you put a firmware password on a Mac, you can double-check in System Preferences > Startup Disk to see if the proper startup disk (or any startup disk) is selected. Since the default behavior of the firmware password is you needing to enter the password in order to boot from anything other than…
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Windows Explorer and Disk Management reporting different partition sizes
I ran into an issue with a user running Windows on a Mac. Windows should have taken up the entire drive (which is 250 GB), but Windows Explorer was reporting about 90 GB. The really odd thing is that within Disk Management itself, it reported 90 GB on top (same as Windows Explorer) but then…