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title: "If After Installing Ntfs-3g, Boot Camp Volume Stopped Showing Up In The Startup Disk Preference Pane. Is Reinstalling Mac Os X, Boot Camp, And Windows The Only Recourse?"  
description: "If After Installing Ntfs-3g, Boot Camp Volume Stopped Showing Up In The Startup Disk Preference Pane. Is Reinstalling Mac Os X, Boot Camp, And Windows The Only Recourse?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-09-18  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49893/if-after-installing-ntfs-3g-boot-camp-volume-stopped-showing-up-in-the-startup-disk-preference-pane-is-reinstalling-mac-os-x-boot-camp-and-windows-the-only-recourse  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["mac troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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#  If After Installing Ntfs-3g, Boot Camp Volume Stopped Showing Up In The Startup Disk Preference Pane. Is Reinstalling Mac Os X, Boot Camp, And Windows The Only Recourse?

If After Installing Ntfs-3g, Boot Camp Volume Stopped [Showing Up](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/109600/how-to-restoration-youtube-comments-no-longer-showing-up) In The [Startup](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/324582/how-to-build-up-a-successful-startup-by-avoiding-these-5-mistakes) [Disk](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96923/what-are-hard-disk-partitions) Preference Pane. Is Reinstalling [Mac Os](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97654/how-to-make-eee-pc-running-linux-look-like-mac-os) X, Boot Camp, And [Windows](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159100/windows-batch-files-bat-vs-cmd) The Only Recourse?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- Any mounted volumes that it doesn't consider bootable are simply filtered out (not displayed) in the **Startup Disk preference pane.**
- The preference pane plugin's definition of a Boot Camp volume requires that the mounted volume be either msdos or ntfs—this is hard-coded.
- This does not imply that your Boot Camp volume is no longer bootable. It's only that it's not visible in the graphical user interface.
- During startup, press and hold the opt key to select the Windows partition to boot from. You can alternatively remount it (read-only) using [**Mac**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49867/how-to-make-windows-look-like-mac-os-x) OS X's built-in NTFS file system, and it should appear in Startup Disk.

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