Unable to boot into windows after partitioning macOS

Hello all,


I know there are a lot of threads already about this and none of them helped me so I will create a new thread.


Today I wanted to create a new partition on the SSD that windows would be able to read for extra files etc. I resized the partition of the mac. Now I try and boot to windows and it doesn't want to boot. It first didn't show me the option to boot to windows at all when holding down 'alt' at start up, but thanks to this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6465316?answerId=26354134022#26354134022 that option came back after entering some commands. However, I still cannot boot into windows. When I select windows while booting it gives me a blinking box in the top left corner, but it doesn't do anything after that.

Anyone knows why this is happening and how I can fix it?


Thanks in advance,

Vincent

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 19, 2019 7:40 AM

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Jun 19, 2019 8:15 AM in response to Loner T

Last login: Wed Jun 19 17:10:55 on ttys000


mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0


   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         138.0 GB   disk0s2


   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         59.8 GB    disk0s3


   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                301.9 GB   disk0s4




/dev/disk1 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +138.0 GB   disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD           119.0 GB   disk1s1


   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.9 MB    disk1s2


   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                514.0 MB   disk1s3


   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4




mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0


Password:


gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Operation not permitted


mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ 




Okay I boot into macOS now. This is what it shows me after I put in the first two commands. It says I cannot open the device /dev/disk0?

Jun 19, 2019 10:33 AM in response to Loner T

Last login: Wed Jun 19 19:31:06 on console


mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0


   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         138.0 GB   disk0s2


   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         59.8 GB    disk0s3


   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                301.9 GB   disk0s4




/dev/disk1 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +138.0 GB   disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD           119.2 GB   disk1s1


   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.9 MB    disk1s2


   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                514.0 MB   disk1s3


   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4




mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0


Password:


gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168


gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0


gpt show: /dev/disk0: Malformed MBR at sector 0


gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1


gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167


      start       size  index  contents


          0          1         MBR


          1          1         Pri GPT header


          2         32         Pri GPT table


         34          6         


         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B


     409640  269606968      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC


  270016608       1952         


  270018560  116848640      3  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7


  386867200     262144         


  387129344  589643776      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7


  976773120         15         


  976773135         32         Sec GPT table


  976773167          1         Sec GPT header


mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]


Signature: 0xAA55


         Starting       Ending


 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]


------------------------------------------------------------------------


 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  976773167] <Unknown ID>


 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      


 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      


*4: 07    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] HPFS/QNX/AUX


mbp-van-vincent:~ macvince$ 



Okay that worked! Now this is the result I get after all three commands.

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