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Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition

Hi

I'm running OS X 10.9 and Windows 7 x64 Pro.


I set up Boot Camp to dual-boot Windows on my MacBook Pro Retina. Everything was fine. And just yesterday Apple released the Yosemite Beta for the public and I wanted to download this and give it a try. After some research, I found that creating a separate partition was the way to go, and so I made another partition.

I wasn't aware that this would affect my Windows partition as I thought it was completely different.

So now, when I boot up, there is no option to boot with Windows. But when I boot the Mac and select Startup Disk, it shows Boot Camp is still there and all my files etc are still there.

I have a 256SSD, 160GB was for the Mac, and I have 90GB set for Windows.

I made the new partition to 40GB (and the Mac was now 120GB).


Then once I completed that part, I restarted my Mac and the Windows boot option was no longer there.


I didn't even install the Yosemite yet. I went to Disk Utility and deleted the 40GB partition that I made.


Now I don't know what to do. I have a lot of important things which are still on my Windows. Is there a way to restore normal Boot Camp functionality?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 25, 2014 8:20 AM

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Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition

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