Resized partition and now Windows wont boot

You can never use Windows only resize tools on a Boot Camp disk. It damages them. You can only use tools that explicitly support Boot Camp, because the tool must simultaneously manage JHFS+, NTFS files systems for resizing; and also the two partition schemes used, MBR and GPT. It's a totally non-standard arrangement and I know of only a few utilities that can do this. Apple Disk Utility is not one of them, it will damage things also.

A conventional Windows partition/resize utility will only change the MBR, and it will damage or corrupt the GPT. This results in a level of damage that really can't be fixed easily, and maybe can't be fixed at all. The best, simplest, fastest option for you is to start from scratch: repartition the drive with Disk Utility, changing the partition scheme from Current to 1 Partition; restore OS X from backup, use Boot Camp Assistant to resize the disk, resinstall/restore Windows.

Not to disagree here Chris but add Paragon's Camp Tune to the list, it works quickly and easily, it saves you the effort and the time a reinstallation takes but it just costs money unlike DU.

oly va ha wrote:

will camptune repair the damage that i have done?

Don't know, never tried that. But as you used DU incorrectly probably not. And I am not the expert in this thread, defer to Chris.

Sounds like you are going to have to repartition the disk to single partition and start all over again from scratch.

Allan

As far as I know, in a single GUI application there are only three that explicitly support resizing Boot Camped disks: Camp Tune, iPartition, Winclone. But I haven't used any of them, and don't know to what degree they can repair problems like this. The issue is that, upon changing the MBR separate from the GPT, it's totally ambiguous to these tools which is correct. And if it makes the wrong assumption, the problem will get worse. If it has some logic that it can use to work out the problem, including scanning for other structures, then it might be possible to sort out the mess. But I don't know any tool that does this automatically.

Again, your best bet is to start from scratch. If you have no backups, you can check out Test Disk and see if it can find/recover anything. But it's a very dense set of tools, it's not an automatic, push button sort of thing either. And it is possible to make the problem worse.

So if this is critical data, you need to cut your losses and send it off for professional data recovery. But if that were the case, I'd think you have backups.

You can boot OS X but not Windows?

What version of Winclone?

What are the results from the following read only commands? Please change the forum font for this text to andale mono 9pt so the result is readable, this is in the forums advanced editor.

sudo gpt -r show -vv disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Well, I wouldn't say you used it incorrectly so much as you used it at all. Disk Utility should not let users modify Boot Camp'd disks at all, short of obliterating all data on them (with a very clear warning that it's about to do so).

The Boot Camp guide vaguely says you should use Boot Camp Assistant to make changes to the disk; I don't think it flat out says using Disk Utility is proscribed. I know the guide doesn't explicitly proscribe using Windows only resize utilities, but I think it should have a warning; not that most people read that guide anyway... but those who do may be saved from misery.

As for your other questions, I can't answer them, I'd only be guessing. Three utilities have made changes to different aspects of the partition schemes being used. So it's ambiguous which one is correct. As soon as a utility changes the state, the previous state is lost, and that's the downward spiral that usually leads to irreparable data loss.

oly va ha wrote:

what about disk utility did i use incorrectly?

Here

I ran out of space and to get some more GB's I shrunk OSX in disk utility

Christopher Murphy wrote:

As far as I know, in a single GUI application there are only three that explicitly support resizing Boot Camped disks: Camp Tune, iPartition, Winclone.

I have used all 3, iPartition does not leave you with a bootable partition very often, I have not used the current version of Winclone but previous versions were a disaster (I am told that the latest version is 'better') and Camp Tune works (for me) everytime, but unlike the other 2 it is a One Trick Pony (and sometimes that is a good thing)