Q: No partition possible for reinstallation of El Capitan

First bit done :

Last login: Sat Sep  3 16:26:19 on ttys000

pc54:~ stuarthallett$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

  MBR: protective

  BSD: not present

  APM: not present

  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): x

Expert command (? for help): l

Enter the sector alignment value (1-65536, default = 2048): 1

Expert command (? for help): m

Command (? for help): d

Partition number (1-5): 5

Command (? for help): n

Partition number (5-128, default 5): 5

First sector (34-1953525134, default = 1317365760) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 1317365760

Last sector (1317365760-1953525134, default = 1953525134) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +636155904

Current type is 'Apple HFS/HFS+'

Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = AF00): 0700

Changed type of partition to 'Microsoft basic data'

Command (? for help): P

Disk /dev/disk0: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 0000289E-72F6-0000-7866-000085630000

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134

Partitions will be aligned on 1-sector boundaries

Total free space is 3477 sectors (1.7 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition

   2          409640      1315891423   627.3 GiB   AF00  Customer

   3      1315891424      1317160959   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD

   4      1317160960      1317365759   100.0 MiB   0700  BOOTCAMP

   5      1317365760      1953521663   303.3 GiB   0700  Microsoft basic data

Command (? for help): W

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING

PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y

OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.

You should reboot or remove the drive.

The operation has completed successfully.

pc54:~ stuarthallett$

bootcamp disk is listed again in finder, and it's also visible again on desktop.

yes when i select Boot Camp on menu list left, everything from windows is available

ok thank you. I'll try that.

First step done, should i reboot to os x :

Last login: Sat Sep  3 18:27:46 on ttys000

pc54:~ stuarthallett$ Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

  MBR: protective

  BSD: not present

  APM: not present

  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): P

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 0000289E-72F6-0000-7866-000085630000

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 3477 sectors (1.7 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition

   2          409640      1315891423   627.3 GiB   AF00  Customer

   3      1315891424      1317160959   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD

   4      1317160960      1317365759   100.0 MiB   0700  BOOTCAMP

   5      1317365760      1953521663   303.3 GiB   0700  Microsoft basic data

Command (? for help): R

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): O

Disk size is 1953525168 sectors (931.5 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0x00000000

MBR partitions:

Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code

   1                     1   1953525167   primary     0xEE

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): H

WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,

just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will

be untouched.

Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be

added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 3 4 5

Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): Y

Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #2)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AB):

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N

Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #3)

Enter an MBR hex code (default 07):

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N

Creating entry for GPT partition #5 (MBR partition #4)

Enter an MBR hex code (default 07):

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): Y

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): O

Disk size is 1953525168 sectors (931.5 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0x00000000

MBR partitions:

Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code

   1                     1   1315891423   primary     0xEE

   2            1315891424   1317160959   primary     0xAB

   3            1317160960   1317365759   primary     0x07

   4      *     1317365760   1953521663   primary     0x07

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): W

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING

PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y

OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/rdisk0.

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.

You should reboot or remove the drive.

The operation has completed successfully.

pc54:~ stuarthallett$

Disks os x and windows are available when I boot.

Os x works fine, but windows shows black screen with "boot manager missing" and "press ctrl + ait + delete", nothing happens

If I understand correctly, you want me to boot into windows, but I can't as the black screen as decribed before gives me no options. My windows DVD disc gets ejected after 30 secs.

Can I use bootrec.exe or something else on OS X to to enable boot to windows ?

I finally managed to burn a ISO DVD. It stays in the optimal drive and shows on os x desktop, some good news.

However, I've tried booting to windows but nothing, it eventually ejects the dvd and goes to the same black screen.