Boot Camp Partition Missing after shrinking Mac Partition

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Boot Camp Partition Missing after shrinking Mac Partition

Hello Chris I have a OSX 10.9.2 running all upgrades, Powerbook 2.3g i7 16 GB , Had a boot camp partition of 49 GB, running windows 7 all working fine.

Decided to bump the windows 7 to 100 GB. Used disk utility to decrease the mac partition to 401.6

Image of the way it is now.

The Gray part is what is from the apply done the original time.

After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.

NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB.

In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows.

Network does show up when holding down altOption Key

Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going

After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.

NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB. 2. In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows. 3. Network does show up when holding down altOption Key

Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going

I ran the Items below as you have asked in the past.

Last login: Fri Jun 27 15:02:59 on ttys000

Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060

gpt show: /dev/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 784379648 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

784789288 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

786058824 95345080

881403904 95700992 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

977104896 131

977105027 32 Sec GPT table

977105059 1 Sec GPT header

Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 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 - 784379648] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 784789288 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 881403904 - 95700992] Win95 FAT32L

Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$

What to do Next ?

Posted on Jun 28, 2014 11:44 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Jul 2, 2014 7:47 AM in response to kenfromCa

Resizing Windows Bootcamp using Disk Utility is not supported. Having said that, you can try using (please backup your data first, including Bootcamp partition)

sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0

setpid 4

07

flag 4

write

And see if it will let you boot Windows.

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Answer 2

Jul 2, 2014 10:24 AM in response to Loner T

Yeah, good chance that will work since the NTFS volume wasn't resized. Just change the type code and active bit, and it'll work.

To reclaim the 50GB of free space, first backup Windows and OS X, then use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the Windows volume, and create a new one of the size you actually want, reinstall Windows, restore backup. Because of the free space gap it's possible Boot Camp Assistant won't actually absorb it back into the OS X volume in which case he'll have to start entirely from scratch: repartition the drive with 1 partition, reinstall OS X, use Boot Camp Assistant to create a partition for Windows, restore OS X files from backup, reinstall Windows, restore Windows file from backup.

Resize the Windows partition

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