Hi, Iost a partition for Windows. This is how it happened:

You can not use Disk Utility to resize, delete, or modify a drive containing a Boot Camp partition. If you used Disk Utility you will now have to erase and format the drive to a single OSX partition. Then run Boot Camp Assistant and install Windows.

I don't understand what you want to do. You said in the other thread you wanted to remove free space, but you can't really do that. Free space is the result of removing something. Formatting removes what was previously there, and creates a new file system in its place, and yet you report that it's unallocated which doesn't really make sense because a formatted partition is neither free space nor unallocated. So I don't really follow exactly how you got to where you are now, or where you'd rather be.

he's saying completely reinstall OSX then Windows

yes, a clean reinstall is just what is reads like, your HD will be back to how it was when you first bought the machine

if you want to do that, make backups of your files and report back

that's incorrect, you'll be able to reclaim your entire 500gb space

Please post the results of

sudo gpt -rv show /dev/rdisk0

sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

There's might be a way to do this with 'diskutil resize' to recapture the free space, that's the easiest. An additional method using diskutil merge will delete the Recovery HD, used for emergency booting disk repair and FileVault2, so it may or may not be something you care to do. And the other is to repartition the drive with only 1 partition using Disk Utility, and then reinstall OS X.

Hi all,

First, sorry to interfer, but I have a similar problem.

@Christopher Murphy:

I saw your answer on this thread (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252) and was trying to find a way to contact you, because I have a similar problem.

I used Paragon Camptune X to expand my bootcamp partition. But now it is not bootable anymore...

I am on a Macbook Pro 13 mid 2012 with Mavericks, I installed gdisk and ran those commands :

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0 :

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

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167

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 1269905920 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1270315560 263640

1270579200 194568192 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1465147392 1743

1465149135 32 Sec GPT table

1465149167 1 Sec GPT header

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 0 0 2 - 25 6 46 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 25 6 47 - 1023 61 37 [ 409640 - 1269905920] HFS+

3: 07 1023 7 8 - 1023 12 12 [1270579200 - 194568192] HPFS/QNX/AUX

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

diskutil list :

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 650.2 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 99.6 GB disk0s3

I hope I don't ask too much, but if you would help me it will be very useful.

Thanks in advance,

CH

MBR partition #3 is not flagged bootable is the likely problem. This can be done with fdisk -e to edit the partition table and the the command flag 3 which will set the active bit on the 3rd partition entry. Then the write command to write it out and reboot. Otherwise I suggest contacting Paragon support since you've paid them by buying their software.

Hi Christopher

I have had a really annoying problem with my Mac. I repartitioned the drive with Paragon software and now have lost my windows partition. I've tried using a windows disc to recover/repair my bootcamp installation, however it is not detecable. Only when I go to re-install windows it detects the partition as "unallocated space".

Please can you advise.

Thanks

Please start a new thread and post the URL here. Include the output from

sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Since you've paid for Paragon software you probably ought to inquire with their tech support though.

Hi Chris,

Lost access to my account, having to use my mates atm. I've created a thread as requested:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6305478