Q: Resized Boot Camp partition, now can't boot into Windows
I have a MacBook Pro (with Retina) with a 128GB SSD that was, until recently, evenly split 50/50 between Mac and Windows 8.
However, I needed more space on the Windows size so I reduced the size of the Mac partition to 40GB and then, because for some reason I couldn't extend the Boot Camp one, I had to create another partition that I could use to drop my stuff into on the Windows side.
I did all this via Windows.
I've now, weeks later, booted into Mac for the first time since and now I can't get back to Windows. The partition doesn't show on the desktop, nor in the Startup Disk utility.
Output from gdisk:
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.
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 453C975D-0233-49EB-A8C3-7B7BF7805CFD
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4165 sectors (2.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 79247487 37.6 GiB AF05 Customer
3 79247488 80517023 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD
4 80517120 119578623 18.6 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
5 119580672 236976127 56.0 GiB AF00 BOOTCAMP
Can anyone help please? The partition is obviously still there, but I can't work out how to make it appear in Startup Disk again!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Posted on Sep 26, 2016 5:45 AM
Can you use [Help] Can't boot to windows (8.1) after resizing partition as a reference and rebuild your MBR?
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 1:10 AM