Resized Boot Camp partition; now I have "disk0s4"

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Resized Boot Camp partition; now I have "disk0s4"

OK so i was following this tutorial on how to increase your boot camp partition from this website.

Following this blog post:

http://blog.craigharvey.me/2012/09/02/resize-boot-camp-partition-for-free-window s-8/

I resized my Boot Camp partition to give Windows 7 more space. In Disk Utility on OS X ML, I reduced the size of my OS X partition. So then i clicked apply and now that partition says disk0s4. I tried to verfiy and repair it through disk utitlity but It wont let me as there are problems. I have reiszed my parition before and never had this problem before. What did I do wrong and will I be able to fix it?

Mac Pro

Posted on Feb 17, 2013 8:11 PM

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Csound1

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Feb 18, 2013 1:29 PM in response to justintime20

As you have found out, those instructions do not work, so.

If you can you still boot to OSX, you can Use Boot Camp to remove the Windows partition and return the Mac to normal, then start agin.

Next time you need to resize an NTFS partition use Paragon Camp Tune, which can do it without borking things.

Do Not Ever use Disk Utility to do anything to a Windows partition, it will make the problem worse.

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Feb 18, 2013 2:12 PM in response to Csound1

Ok thank you, Will there be anyway to recover any files on it?

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Csound1

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Feb 18, 2013 3:40 PM in response to justintime20

Which files? OSX or Windows?

And can you boot to OSX?

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justintime20 Author

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Feb 18, 2013 5:07 PM in response to Csound1

my windows file, and yes i can boot onto osx

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Csound1

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Feb 18, 2013 6:57 PM in response to justintime20

Can you see the windows partition in disk utility (disk0s4) if you can you can make an image of it before you use Boot Camp to delete (this is a permissible operation for DU on the disk)

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Feb 19, 2013 3:33 PM in response to Csound1

what do you mean see the boot camp partition? when i open disk utitlity it just says disk disk0s4, and its formated as ms-dos(fat) I also have another disk0s but this is formated as a efi. Both of them i am unable to mount, repair, or verify.

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Csound1

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Feb 19, 2013 3:51 PM in response to justintime20

Then it does not sound like you will be abe to get anything from it, if this is important the next step would be to remove the drive and connect it externally, you may (low chance) be able to get to the files that way, frankly I doubt it.

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Feb 20, 2013 3:08 PM in response to Csound1

I mean there isnt really anything like SUPER importent on there. Well thanks for all the help. Oh one last thing how should i go about deleting the bootcamp partition and the other partition that is just space?(the one formated as a efi)

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Csound1

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Feb 20, 2013 3:46 PM in response to justintime20

Probably going to need to erase the whole drive and start again.

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avengine

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Mar 27, 2014 2:38 PM in response to Csound1

I have the same problem after using minitool partition in osx 10.9.2, bootcamp become disk0s4, not a startup disk anymore. now I am using wintool to restore the backup of bootcamp, the windows partition I set it in DU under ms-dos only no ntfs in DU.

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