Repairing Boot Camp Partition

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Repairing Boot Camp Partition

Dear All,

After trying to resize the boot camp partition with Paragon Camptune X I can not boot anymore from said partition.

Enclosed the output of the following command:

DISKUTIL LIST

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 597.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *4.0 GB disk1

1: Windows_NTFS Untitled 4.0 GB disk1s1

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *21.0 MB disk2

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS rEFIt 20.9 MB disk2s2

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *536.9 MB disk3

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk3s1

2: Apple_HFS StellarPhoenixMacDat... 536.9 MB disk3s2

Thanks a lot for further instructions,

Manuel

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 12, 2014 1:55 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Aug 12, 2014 2:00 PM in response to manuelsiegrist

Boot from the Windows installer DVD and use it to repair the installation. You may need to do something with rEFIt. BTW, rEFIt isn't compatible with Mavericks. You need to replace it with rEFInd.

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Answer 2

Aug 12, 2014 2:02 PM in response to Kappy

I did try to boot with a bootable WIN7 USB stick but did not get far since the keyboard and mouse are not working. Any suggestions there?

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Answer 3

Aug 12, 2014 2:03 PM in response to Kappy

(DOUBLEPOST)

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Answer 4

Aug 12, 2014 2:14 PM in response to manuelsiegrist

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167

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 1166410496 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1166820136 3288

1166823424 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1168092960 785432175

1953525135 32 Sec GPT table

1953525167 1 Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 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 21 61 [ 409640 - 1166410496] HFS+

3: AB 1023 34 35 - 1023 20 52 [1166823424 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

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

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Answer 5

Kappy

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Aug 12, 2014 2:31 PM in response to manuelsiegrist

Sorry, no. Not a Windows person.

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Answer 6

Loner T

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Aug 12, 2014 3:57 PM in response to manuelsiegrist

You do not have an entry for GPT #4. Are you trying to install Bootcamp for the first time?

manuelsiegrist wrote:

1168092960 785432175

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

This looks like what you think should be Windows eventually? What version of Windows are you trying to install? Are you trying an EFI install of Win7 or a Bootcamp-assisted (CSM-BIOS) installation?

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Answer 7

Aug 12, 2014 11:07 PM in response to Loner T

Win 7 (Prof, 64bit) had been installed for several months via Boot Camp on this Mac.

With some recovery tool called Mini Tool Data Recovery or something like that I was even able to see that the partition is still 'somewhere' around.

Thanks,

Manuel

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Answer 8

Loner T

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Aug 13, 2014 4:04 AM in response to manuelsiegrist

It CampTuneX (or any other tool) was used to manipulate partitions, in the current state, there is no partition with Bootcamp, hence you are unable to boot.

If the tool you are using can recover deleted partitions, that is the best scenario at this point.

I use Testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step) to look for deleted partitions. Since there is no GPT/MBR entry, there is not much till OSX can 'see' the partition that anything can be done using OSX tools.

If you had BC in the past on the machine, your third party tool has 'lost' that partition during resizing.

From Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions

How can a Windows partition be resized after Windows is installed?

You need to delete the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant, and start over to change the size of the Windows partition. Back up your important Windows files first.

From Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes

Third-party disk utility software includes Alsoft DiskWarrior, Micromat Tech Tool, and Symantec Norton Disk Doctor. Consult third-party utility manufacturers to find out which software versions are compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.

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