Bootcamp disappeared after resize OSX

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Bootcamp disappeared after resize OSX

Hi all,

First of all my English is not very good, but I've tried to fix my problem with things I find in the forum but I get a little complicated. So I come to ask for help with this. I'm not the first person to resize your MacOSX to give more space to Bootcamp. So I did it once with Winxtool and all was well. Then I needed more space so I went back to reduce space and MacOSX has disappeared boot my Bootcamp and MacOSX recognizes neither. I need to access the information that I have in the Bootcamp. It is vital for me, since I have many projects and have not backed off that partition.

Here an image of partition sizes.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jun 13, 2014 12:01 PM

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BobTheFisherman

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Jun 13, 2014 4:58 PM in response to G0dJohn

You can not resize partiotions on a drive containing a Boot Camp partition unless you use CampTune.

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 13, 2014 5:32 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

The problem is that I complete projects on that partition and I could not get access to that information. Since starting bootcamp disappeared and the Mac recognizes it as disk0s4

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 13, 2014 6:22 PM in response to G0dJohn

I followed some tutorials like this ..

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0

Now I get the partition but I have entered and I get this picture

What do I do now?

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ImBrett

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Jun 14, 2014 8:59 AM in response to G0dJohn

This is because the Apple version of the boot record is pointing to where things are after the changes you made, but the MBR (master boot record) entry hasn't been updated.

Try reading through this exchange to see what you can do. The good news is, it is probably quite fixable.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 14, 2014 1:16 PM in response to ImBrett

No, I've tried everything. But I can not get anything. What I think I'll be able to do is find some sort of program that let me explore the disc, remove the information I need and delete that partition.

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Loner T

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Jun 14, 2014 3:31 PM in response to G0dJohn

You are pretty close to fixing it. Have you tried Windows Recovery or bootrec.exe?

Please see this - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392.

Can you also post the output of following commands for recording what your disk looks like currently?

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/rdisk0

sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 14, 2014 4:53 PM in response to Loner T

I used this comands and look:

and i try fix the partition with bootinstaller and throw this

English " The disk that is installed is locked "

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Loner T

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Jun 14, 2014 7:07 PM in response to G0dJohn

Can you try and fix your fdisk (MBR) side?

This can be done using sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0. There are some known issues with GPT/Hybrid MBR and W8.1 recovery.

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Jun 14, 2014 7:07 PM in response to G0dJohn

So far the only solution to the problem you are having with your disk that I know works is to reformat the disk and start all over again.

Of course you need to backup everything first.

The install OS X and create the new partition for Windows with BootCamp

After that restore your backups.

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 14, 2014 9:11 PM in response to Loner T

I do not quite understand what you're saying.

Use the command "sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" and throw "

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

Enter 'help' for information

fdisk: 1> "

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 14, 2014 9:12 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Sure, that's what I will try to do but the problem is I do not want to format the partition because I have vital information and I do not have backups of this partition.

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Csound1

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Jun 15, 2014 3:01 AM in response to G0dJohn

G0dJohn wrote:

I have vital information and I do not have backups of this partition.

Then make a backup before you format it!

It can't be very vital if it is not worth backing it up.

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Loner T

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Jun 15, 2014 8:08 AM in response to G0dJohn

G0dJohn wrote:

I do not quite understand what you're saying.

Use the command "sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" and throw "

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

Enter 'help' for information

fdisk: 1> "

This is expected. You will need to create partitions 3 and 4 and mark 4 as bootable. The start/size values are shown in the GPT output. Notice that partition 4 is marked with a "*" which makes it bootable. Marking a GPT partition with MAC OS X bootable on the MBR side has no value.

You can see the syntax for fdisk in the help page (man fdisk). If you need exact syntax, please ask. gdisk GPT fdisk can also be used for this task.

I suggest that a recovery and the correct MBR should be tried first, before deleting and reinstalling Windows.

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 15, 2014 8:19 AM in response to Csound1

I made that mistake. not make a backup. but as I do if I have no access to information?

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G0dJohn Author

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Jun 15, 2014 11:44 AM in response to Loner T

Loner T, The problem is that you tell me to use a command that I have no idea to use it as the "fdisk" and "gdisk".

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