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Cant boot from anywhere

Hi, i'm stuck with a problem on my Mac.

I have installed the windows 7 through bootcamp and it worked fine until when i realized that i was needing more disk space on windows. I searched on Google and found some instructions. Here is what i did:

Resized the OS X partition in disk utility.

Booted on windows and tried to resize it partition in the native disk utility without success.

Searched for a program to resize partitions. I found one that i dont remember the name but i installed it and it told me to restart the computer to complete the installation, so i did. But when windows was booting, it showed a blue screen and restarted. I tried some options like safe mode and last valid setting but without success. So i realized that the message in the blue screen was: unmountable_boot_volume.

I had spent ali the day trying to fix this, but seems like impossible. When i press alt on initialization, it only show the windows option to boot. Also tried the recovery mode of OS X, had to wait like 40 min. to download the recovery mode and when finished it was helpless. The disk utility didnt enabled the option to repair my disk. I have the usb pen drive that i used to install windows but when i try to run the recovery mode from windows, it dont recognise my keyboard and my mouse, tried external ones and Also didnt worked. So, Mac OS wont boot, windows wont boot, recovery wont help. Anyone have a guess? I'm really stressed with it!

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 4:57 AM

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Nov 3, 2013 11:55 AM in response to Helenocampos

I'm still stuck with it... I'm now running the internet recovery mode. Here I was able to access a terminal, so I tried some diskutil commands without success.

You can check the log in the following link: http://pastebin.com/2GNcxCDB


My system is at disk1

disk1s1 is the mac os partition

disk1s2 is the windows partition


Looks like the OS X partition has lost his properties... Anyone?

Nov 4, 2013 8:02 AM in response to Helenocampos

You can not create/resize/delete partitions using Disk Utility on a drive containing a Boot Camp partition. Since you did this you will have to erase and format your hard drive. Then reinstall OSx and start again with Boot Camp Assistant. The only way you can resize a Boot Camp partition is with CampTune or start over. You have to start over since you used the wrong tool.

Apr 18, 2014 4:29 PM in response to Helenocampos

What you can do is:


1. Startup your mac while pressing Command + S. It should come up with a black screen.

2. Once the text stops generating, type in "exit". (without "")

3. It should start properly.


If that doesn't work, check out this page:


http://www.macworld.com/article/2018853/when-good-macs-go-bad-steps-to-take-when -your-mac-wont-start-up.html

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