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Bootcamp missing after resizing manually

I know i have seen many threads, discussions about this kind of problem. Sorry if this is posted in here if its the wrong place I mean.

Well I did some reading and wasnt so sure about going further than what I've seen was successful for others (scared to damage or lose any files on my bootcamp).


I did resize it once, and it was successful, but this time it just suddenly turned to a disk0s4 and has an amount of the very first partition I had for the bootcamp (before resizing it successfully)


Thing is I'm not that confident without proper help or guide in repairing and any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm online this very moment and day I just want to wrap this up as I won't be able to sleep knowing that my sister's thesis report are in that bootcamp.


Here is so far what i have done.


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

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: 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 392666144 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

393075784 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

394345320 386630808

780976128 195796992 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

976773120 15

976773135 32 Sec GPT table

976773167 1 Sec GPT header



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 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 392666144] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 393075784 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 780976128 - 195796992] Win95 FAT32L

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 3, 2014 12:08 AM

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May 7, 2014 11:08 AM in response to KaiKaiser

If the repair fails, then...


1. Delete the current bootcamp partition using Bootcamp Assistant.

2. This should also coalesce the Bootcamp into the remainder of the disk. (the EFI partition and Recovery HD will remain, so you essentially have three parts - EFI, MAC OS X and Recovery HD - and GPT will show you those).

3. Use Bootcamp Assistant to start a new installation using the appropriate size. BA will resize the partitions as necessary.

4. Re-install Windows.

5. Re-activate Windows as necessary.

6. Include Bootcamp partition in backups.

May 7, 2014 5:31 PM in response to Loner T

what happens if I repair the boot sectors of the windows partition? it says in testdisk that it has a bad boot sector.

Before changing 0C to 07 it said that sectors were identical but now its 07 it says that sectors arent identical does that mean anything?


EDITED:

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access

any data; even if the partition is not bootable.

Bootcamp missing after resizing manually

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