Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

DJC631

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 1, 2011
135
551
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
I'm running a 2012 Mac Pro with an internal SSD. It was partitioned with a Windows 7 installation via boot camp and was running fine. However, a few days ago I went to change the startup disk and received: "You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk."
Went to reset my partition on the SSD and Bootcamp Assistant tells me the Mac doesn't support Bootcamp.

I'm at a loss, any advice?
 

DJC631

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 1, 2011
135
551
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
I'm using a GTX graphics card, so I can't use the option button at startup. I tried to use my original graphics card, but I have no video for some reason. So for now, I have no reliable way to reinstall stuff.
No, the SSD had only 2, 3 if you count the recovery partition.
 

DearthnVader

Suspended
Dec 17, 2015
2,207
6,392
Red Springs, NC
I'm using a GTX graphics card, so I can't use the option button at startup. I tried to use my original graphics card, but I have no video for some reason. So for now, I have no reliable way to reinstall stuff.
No, the SSD had only 2, 3 if you count the recovery partition.

What about the EFI partition?

I also have a Microsoft Reserved partition in addition to the Microsoft Basic Data partition, but I have Windows 8.1.

If you have a hybrid gpt mbr partition table, you can't have more than 4 partitions, you'll have to convert the disk to pure GPT. There is a nondestructive way of doing it, but I'll have to see if I can find it again. I had to do it for my disk as I have 14 partitions.

I don't know why it would stop working for you tho( booting Windows ), unless you added a partition sense the last time you booted Windows?
 

DJC631

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 1, 2011
135
551
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
What about the EFI partition?

I also have a Microsoft Reserved partition in addition to the Microsoft Basic Data partition, but I have Windows 8.1.

If you have a hybrid gpt mbr partition table, you can't have more than 4 partitions, you'll have to convert the disk to pure GPT. There is a nondestructive way of doing it, but I'll have to see if I can find it again. I had to do it for my disk as I have 14 partitions.

I don't know why it would stop working for you tho( booting Windows ), unless you added a partition sense the last time you booted Windows?

The whole Mac has stopped booting, so I think I've got more serious problems now, sadly.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.