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HodyWasp Author

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Repairing Boot Camp after creating a partition.

Hello everyone. I have a MacBook Pro (early 2014) with 500 gb HDD.

It has Mavericks OS X and Bootcamp( windows 7). Yesterday i made a partition to install the """"Public """Beta (the public not for developers, its legal)of Yosemite, then i decided to delete that partition.

Now i go to disk Utilities and there are, the bootcamp an the macintosh HD partiton like before install Yosemite Beta.

So the problem is that bootcamp doesn´t show up anymore when pressing the "alt" key at the start, But it appear at system preferences and when i set bootcamp restart, appear a black window and a message that said "No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key. " I have important thing in that bootcamp partition (50gb).

( An important thing, is that the files of windows also appear in the finder of Mac OS)

Could someone please give support to restart windows bootcamp normally.

Here is a picture of my disk utilities and

partitions of de HDD disk

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 27, 2014 2:33 PM

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Loner T

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Jul 27, 2014 7:10 PM in response to HodyWasp

Please be careful. This is tricky.

Please read this - http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Enable-Disk-Utilitys-Debug-Menu.htm

This allows Disk Utility to see hidden partitions. Enable Debug mode and post a screen shot of the same screen. It should match the output of the gpt command. When you did the disk work, the Recovery HD may have moved.

HodyWasp Author

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Jul 27, 2014 7:26 PM in response to Loner T

I have an issue.

Loner T

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Jul 27, 2014 7:28 PM in response to HodyWasp

You forgot 'defaults write ' before the 'com.apple....".

HodyWasp Author

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Jul 27, 2014 7:33 PM in response to Loner T

sorry for that ,

i Enable debug mode, and show all partitions.

Loner T

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Jul 27, 2014 8:12 PM in response to HodyWasp

There is a utility called GPT fdisk - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/.

If you look at the output on page 1 of the your gpt command, the lines that have

GPT Part #2 is start - 409640, size - 785549208 (Macintosh HD)

GPT Part #3 is start - 785958848, size - 1269536 (Recovery HD).

The gap is 409,640. It is not that big - just about 200MB.

The larger gap is between GPT#3 and GPT#4, which was created for Yosemite, and it also seems that the Recovery HD may have been relocated. It is about 47Gb.

Unless you want to install Windows and OSX from scratch, I would suggest not trying to reclaim it, unless you have disk space issues.

HodyWasp Author

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Jul 27, 2014 9:02 PM in response to Loner T

So i lost that grey space???

Loner T

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Jul 28, 2014 4:38 AM in response to HodyWasp

You can delete Recovery HD and reclaim the space, but that has implications. For example, you cannot use FileVault2 (and Find My Mac), Command-R which will execute Internet Recovery rather than local recovery, etc.

Mac urs

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Aug 1, 2014 12:31 AM in response to HodyWasp

Hello Brother hodywasp , i have the same Issue with my HDD, i have a Grey Space or Gap Between the Bootcamp and Macintosh HD partitions, please contact with me via E-mail, to discuss about what can we do, i also speak spanish!!

eyalll

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Sep 14, 2014 10:50 AM in response to Loner T

Same problem here, need guidance!

I have a MB Pro (mid 2012) 1TB SSD

60 for Yosemite Beta (authorized)

70 for Bootcamp

The rest for Mavericks

Please help

Loner T

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Sep 14, 2014 10:59 AM in response to eyalll

Can I suggest a new thread?

Also, Yosemite, Mavericks and Bootcamp on a single disk is not supported and can cause data loss for any of the three OSes are all.

You can see it for yourself if you run diskutil list? You should have at least 6 disk slices, including two Recovery HDs.

eyalll

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Sep 14, 2014 11:18 AM in response to Loner T

Here is the new thread

Repairing Boot Camp to have 3 partitions.

And also the diskutil list answer.

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