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1. #2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement install#
2. #2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement pro#
3. #2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement windows 8.1#

If you destroy your recovery partition by accident, there’s a nice script called Recovery Partition Creator that can help you recover your recovery 🙂 partition.I fixed the startup list this by starting a new Windows installation, failing it, and removing the failed installation using the Bootcamp Assistant. Honestly, I couldn’t find a way to edit this list. In Step 8, if you remove the Bootcamp partition using Disk Utility or other utilities, you probably gonna end up with a dangling “Windows” entry in the startup volumes list of your Mac.

#2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement install#

If you install Windows 8 and update it to 8.1, the update process creates new partitions that the Assistant does not like.

#2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement windows 8.1#

#2014 macbook pro hard drive replacement pro#

When booted in Safe Mode, your MacBook Pro will start only with the minimum requirements and utilities. Wait for the process to finish before restarting your machine. Click the First Aid button to start fixing your drive. Try to use the assistant whenever you can. From the left pane, choose your MacBook Pro hard drive.

The Bootcamp Assistant doesn’t like if you manually edit partitions.This time the installation should succeed. Boot your mac and run the Bootcamp Assistant.The computer will restart once more, and you will hear the startup buzz. After the startup buzz, press ⌘+⌥+P+R to reset your PRAM. Using the Bootcamp Assistant, remove the windows installation and the Bootcamp partition.If you don’t do this, the computer will try to boot on Bootcamp, which is obviously non-functional. After the startup buzz, keep ⌥ pressed so that you can manually select the boot partition. The installation procedes, but after some time it fails with a “ Windows could not update the computer’s boot configuration” message.You need to select the fourth partition and format it using the NTFS filesystem. At this step, you probably have 4 partitions: EID boot, Mac main partition, Mac Recovery partition, and the partition which the Bootcamp has just created. When starting it again it just opens up any previous applications and windows I had open. The screen goes black (backlight still on) and you can hear the fans kick up a tiny bit and after a few seconds the computer shuts off completely. Although not compulsory, SSD is essentially a replacement for hard drives, especially as internal laptop storage. The installation wizard asks on which partition you want to install Windows. Yesterday my 15' 2014 Macbook Pro Retina started shutting down randomly. Answer (1 of 2): Yes, the hard drive in these models is actually an SSD, there is no room for an internal hard drive.The computer reboots and the Windows installation process starts.In the third screen, you configure how to partition your drive.Do these things if you need to – both takes a reasonable amount of time.

Although, something is bugged with the combination Macbook Pro Retina 2014 running Mavericks and Windows 8. I’ve installed and used Bootcamp on a few Macs and never had any sort of problem. I got a new Macbook Pro Retina 15″ Mid-2014 from a friend and I couldn’t imagine that it would be so hard to install Windows 8 on this Mac.