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Q: After upgrading to El Capitan i can't find Windows partition

as the title describes it, i upgraded to El Capitan and i can't find my Windows "Bootcamp" partition at all

 

i followed some thread support here , Loner T has made some steps to help , i followed all of it but currently i am still unable to boot windows, after following, i can find windows and macOS when i press Option button but after selecting Windows ,  a msg saying no operating system appear!!

 

a 50 GIG partition is Untitled when i view my disk utility  Screen Shot 2015-11-22 at 10.19.03 AM.png

the testdisk quick search is taking forever but i got some information from terminal :

Screen Shot 2015-11-22 at 10.24.53 AM.png

 

plz i really need help as i can't lose the data on this partition , any support is highly appreciated , thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Win 7 was installed

Posted on Nov 22, 2015 12:33 AM

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  • by sherifsayed85,

    sherifsayed85 sherifsayed85 Nov 22, 2015 4:58 AM in response to sherifsayed85
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    Nov 22, 2015 4:58 AM in response to sherifsayed85

    some more data from testdisk

    Screen Shot 2015-11-22 at 2.27.55 PM.png

    Screen Shot 2015-11-22 at 2.28.35 PM.png

  • by Loner T,Helpful

    Loner T Loner T Nov 22, 2015 9:20 AM in response to sherifsayed85
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    Nov 22, 2015 9:20 AM in response to sherifsayed85

    Please scroll down to the second MS Data entry from the top and press 'P'. I expect to see something similar to

     

    Testdisk-GoodWindowsPartition.png

  • by sherifsayed85,

    sherifsayed85 sherifsayed85 Nov 22, 2015 9:22 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 22, 2015 9:22 AM in response to Loner T

    Thanks a lot for your fast reply , i have fixed it , as you mentioned on another topic , the beginning sector should be from testdisk result, i used it and set the space of the lost partition , and it worked , didnt lose anything thanks to you (THUMBS UP)

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 22, 2015 11:38 AM in response to sherifsayed85
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    Nov 22, 2015 11:38 AM in response to sherifsayed85

    Please ensure you create fresh OS X and Windows backup.

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 3, 2015 8:18 PM in response to sherifsayed85
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:18 PM in response to sherifsayed85

    Hello everyone!

    I have the same problem too

    **** apple! why would they create something so harmaful

    After upgrading to el capitan I couldn't find my bootcamp partition and I have very very important information there. I am so desperate right now. I tried contacting their customer service and they transfered me to another department and my call was on hold all the f*** time

    What am I going to do now?

    I lost everything because I use that partition way more than apple.

    Everything started after windows was sending me invitations to upgrade to windows 10 for free. Motherf*** so in the end ok I decided to upgrade it after the installation was done the drivers were not working, that is the trackpad and the camera and maybe other things, so I contacted windows and they told me to contact apple. Apple told me that I needed to upgrade to el capitan. They never warned me that the bootcamp partition would disappear after upgrading.

    Now I lost everything!!!

    What am I going to do???

    Can someone help me please.

    Is there a way that if maybe I can downgrade back to Mac OS X Lion that I would recover the bootcamp partition?

    I never thought the the any update or upgrade from the mac partition would affect the bootcamp partition. Who would have thought that

    I lost everything. I had so many important information there, I even gave the bootcamp partition more space than anything

    Apple f** rats

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 3, 2015 8:30 PM in response to sherifsayed85
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:30 PM in response to sherifsayed85

    Hi

    Please if you had read my comment

    Please help mee!!

    I have the same problem as you

    I also had so many important information on the bootcamp partition

    What can I do to recover it?

    Please help me

    I don't know what to do now

     

    Can you explain to me step by step what you did to recover bootcamp? Because I quite didn't get the steps you followed to recover

     

    Please! I will be more than thankful!!

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 3, 2015 8:32 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:32 PM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner,

     

    I have the same problem. Had so many important information in my bootcamp partition and now I can't find it after upgrading to el capitan.

    Would you be so kind to explain it to me step by step please!! I couldn't follow what you explained to sherifsayed

    I will be more than thankful

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 3, 2015 8:34 PM in response to D-nunez123
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:34 PM in response to D-nunez123

    Please start a new discussion and post the output of the following Terminal commands from the OS X side.

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

     

    The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 3, 2015 8:53 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:53 PM in response to Loner T

    HI Loner.

    thanks I really appreciate your fast reply but I still can't follow

    how do I go to disk util list and then to disk util cs list and how do i perform those tests? I hope you understand I'm not familiar with these tech terminologies but if you tell me step by step I'd be able to do it

    you know if you could tell me to where specifically I have to go.

    I'm still a little lost

    SOmehow relieved because it appears that my problem has a solution but at the same time still severely worried

     

    thanks again!

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 3, 2015 8:58 PM in response to D-nunez123
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    Dec 3, 2015 8:58 PM in response to D-nunez123

    Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal. Triple-click on each following line and copy (Command+C) and paste (Command+V) in the Terminal Window. If prompted for a password, enter your password. it will not be echoed back to you.

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

     

    Please post a new discussion in Bootcamp using Find answers and ask new questions and post the output of the Terminal commands in that new discussion.

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 4, 2015 5:43 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 4, 2015 5:43 PM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner, I am unable to make a new post. It said that I reached a post limit. So far I only posted in this thread last night.

    Alright I followed your steps and this is what I got:

    Screen Shot 2015-12-04 at 8.42.08 PM.png

    Please give me good news

  • by D-nunez123,

    D-nunez123 D-nunez123 Dec 4, 2015 6:08 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 4, 2015 6:08 PM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner I was able to create the post

    Here is the link

    I can't find Windows-bootcamp after installing El Capitan