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Q: Partition pain

I was trying to free up some space from my windows 10 partition to go back to my Mac OS X 10.10.2 partition. You used to be able to do this in either boot amp or the disk utility just by dragging the sliders, I'm sure...i couldn't get it to work in Mac I looked online and read somewhere that Windows 10 could do it natively.

 

In Windows 10 disk management o resized the bootcamp partition to free up some space. This then created an empty partition, so I headed back to OS X, but it didn't seem to see it in disk utility, aback to Windows 10, I thought if I formatted it as fat32 os X would see it and be able to reclaim the space.

 

That's when the sh*t hit the fan:

 

-cant boot into os X

-cant boot into Windows 10

 

when booting the screen is black for a long time then the machine tries to book Windows but says there's no bootable media (or something similar).

 

I tries command + R to load online help/utilities but disk utility their recognises all the partitions but cannot seem to do anything with them, like delete or repair etc. It says it can't make changes to the boot map (apologies not exact mssage(s) have subsequntly been drinking to numb the misery of it. Am away from home, so don't have any bootable media Or any backups with me.

 

basically I've broken the guild map I think but because everything's greyed out in the utilises, I can't erase any partitions (if that's what I need to do).

 

would someone please give me some advice? - will it be possible to save the data on the os X partition? (Not so bothers about Windows 10)???

 

thanks in advance

 

david

 

Macbook pro retina 15inch 2012

Posted on Dec 28, 2015 9:10 PM

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