Inaccessible bootcamp partition for startup disk

Sadly, I have the same on my MacBookPro. Here are the results for that one.

Matts-MacBook-Pro:~ mattp$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 1169921920] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1170331560 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1171601408 - 293545984] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Matts-MacBook-Pro:~ mattp$ sudo gpt -r -v show disk0

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

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 1169921920 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1170331560 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1171601096 312

1171601408 293545984 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1465147392 1743

1465149135 32 Sec GPT table

1465149167 1 Sec GPT header

Thanks for the speedy reply. In both cases, I can't select the boot camp partition as a startup disk to boot directly to it. I hadn't tried in a while, but I think what must have caused it was the upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion. In both cases I haven't touched the partitions themselves since setting up boot camp when I first got them.

The only other thing I can think of that's of note is that in both cases there is VM software that can run the bootcamp within OSX. I have the bootcamp OS shut down in the VM, though, and still can't select it in the Startup Disk control panel. One uses VMWare Fusion. The other uses Parallels.

Let me know if there's any other info I might provide. Sorry if that's too vague. I'll understand if there's nothing to be done.

Thanks again.

Matt

They both work properly.

Ok, now I feel silly. Tried that on the iMac, and windows was there. It seems like it's coming up normally. I'd assumed there was a problem since the way I'd always gotten it to boot before seemed to be missing. This works fine, so I guess I don't have to worry about that.

Thanks so much, and sorry for wasting your time!

Just as an aside question, could it be that I need to/can download new drivers related to bootcamp, after having done OS upgrades and such?

Great call again. I have Tuxera NTFS installed so I can read large USB drives on NTFS. Sorry I forgot to mention that initially. Once again you're on top of it!

I looked in their support forum, and found this:

http://goo.gl/gWe8T

It looks like they were saying it's an Apple problem, so there's not much they can do. I'll probably open a ticket with them, just to see, since this was a while ago, but at least I can use the option key, and that's great.

Thanks again for all the help!

Yeah, realized it was that old, just figure if it's really hard-coded with apple, they're probably not too concerned about changing it. That said, I'll see what Tuxera has to say about it now.

Here's the mount results.

Matts-iMac:~ mattp$ mount

/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

/dev/disk0s4 on /Volumes/BOOTCAMP (fusefs_txantfs, local, synchronous)