strange issue with 11-inch MacBook air

By JoanneStark6, 1 August, 2016

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macOS and Mac Apps

Good morning,
I apologize if this thread is in the wrong forum category.
Let me preface this by saying I love my early 2014 model MacBook Air. It has seen me through my first successful year of college without any crashes, and I hope it holds up for the next few years as I make my way toward a bachelor degree in early childhood education.
I had to enlist the help of a sighted person to install windows on this machine via bootcamp assistant with the hope of eventually using the windows partition for gaming, rather than rely on another machine for that. However, he told me something odd he was seeing which halted the installation process. after the Mac's D drive has been partitioned, one has to select the partition to which they want to install windows, yes? But for whatever reason, he was unable to select the assigned partition.
What are our other options for dual-booting my machine since bootcamp doesn't seem to want to cooperate with us, and what do I need as far as hardware and software before trying this again? Thank you for your help.

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By Chris Bruinenberg on Friday, July 29, 2016 - 22:24

Hi there,
So what your friend needs to do is select advanced settings during the windows installation.
Then delete the bootcamp partition, this will let you continue and he will see the partition again.
I don't know why bootcamp does this but i had the same issue.
Good luck and let us know how it works for you.

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Friday, July 29, 2016 - 22:24

I'd try resetting the device. Also maybe there's something in your settings for that app that may have gotten tweaked. I'd look in your settings menu 4 messenger & then c what's what. I'm not sure if this will work 4 u or not, but maybe re-enstalling messenger.