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WarthogARJ Author

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Repairing Boot Camp after upgrading to Mavericks: Jarvis

Hi,

I cannot boot up into BootCamp after I upgraded to Mavericks: problem has been with me for about a year.

MacBook Pro 13: mid-2012

Mavericks 10.9.5

960 GB SSD: Mac OS etc and BootCamp partitions

1 TB HDD in the optical bay slot: HDD (data) and HDD2 for personal encrypted data.

BootCamp runs on Windows 7 Ultimate.

I am able to access the BootCamp partition with Parallel's Desktop.

But I want to be able to boot into it as well (like I used to in Lion).

Would really appreciate help from Chris Murphy or LonerT on this.

I've been following your thread:

Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition

The output from the various Terminal commands are:

Last login: Tue Sep 23 20:25:52 on console

alans-mbp:~ arjarvis_mbp$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *960.2 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac_SSD 869.9 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 784.2 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 89.3 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac_HDD 954.1 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_CoreStorage 45.6 GB disk1s3

4: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s4

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Mac_HDD 2 *45.3 GB disk2

alans-mbp:~ arjarvis_mbp$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Password:

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 116737/255/63 [1875385008 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 - 1698931968] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1699341608 - 1531680] Darwin Boot

4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1700874240 - 174510080] Win95 FAT32L

alans-mbp:~ arjarvis_mbp$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=960197124096; sectorsize=512; blocks=1875385008

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1875385007

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 1698931968 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1699341608 1531680 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1700873288 952

1700874240 174510080 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1875384320 655

1875384975 32 Sec GPT table

1875385007 1 Sec GPT header

Thanks very much,

Alan Jarvis

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), BootCamp Windows 7 Ultimate

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 12:48 PM

86 replies

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 26, 2014 5:48 PM in response to WarthogARJ

Since you can see the Bootcamp volume, in the Windows directory, do you see a ntbtlog.txt? This file is supposed to contain a list of drivers that were loaded and if there were any errors during the process.

What version of OS X did you upgrade from, to Mavericks?

msconfig also allows the no GUI boot option. which is worth a shot. Your graphics driver currently configured is now the biggest suspect in your Windows issue.

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

8 points

Sep 26, 2014 6:29 PM in response to Loner T

I have gone in steady progression from 10.4 to 10.9.

So my last one was Mountain Lion.

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 26, 2014 6:35 PM in response to WarthogARJ

Via Parallels, if you set msconfig to no GUI Boot and switch to Bootcamp (via ALT), Do you get a command prompt?

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

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Sep 26, 2014 6:36 PM in response to WarthogARJ

Nope.

I selected no GUI in Safe Boot.

Then shut er down and rebooted the Mac with ALT.

Tried both BootCamp and US.

All hung.

I searched for ntbtlog.txt.

Didn't find it.

Maybe called something else?

I will look too.

And I heard some rude noises from the speaker.

Sounded like "Bill Gates blows dead bears" but I am not not exactly sure.

Dang, is a cheeky bugger now, hey?

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 26, 2014 6:59 PM in response to WarthogARJ

You may need to enable Boot logging in msconfig to see the debug log.

WarthogARJ wrote:

And I heard some rude noises from the speaker.

Sounded like "Bill Gates blows dead bears" but I am not not exactly sure.

Dang, is a cheeky bugger now, hey?

You sense of humor in face of adversity (aka Bootcamp) is amazing. Very 😎.

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 26, 2014 7:25 PM in response to WarthogARJ

Next time you are in msconfig, please enable "Base Video" before trying Bootcamp.

This is what I get via Vmware.

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

8 points

Sep 27, 2014 5:23 AM in response to Loner T

OK.

BTW, I don't see the images you attach.

I've tried in both Safari as well as Firefox.

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 27, 2014 5:51 AM in response to WarthogARJ

The Community pages have a lot of issues with images.

Does this https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7rm490mg1kozgc/Bootcamp-safe-mode.png?dl=0 work?

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

8 points

Sep 27, 2014 6:22 AM in response to Loner T

Aha!!

Yes I can see it now, but even more, I might see another issue.

In the sysconfig Boot tab I see this written:

Windows Vista (TM) Business (recovered) (\Windows) : Current OS; Default OS

see attached (hopefully you CAN see it??)

However my Computer definitely says it's running Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1.

I don't remember exactly, but perhaps I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7??

Or else the install image I got did that.

My Bootcamp was originally created in July 2009.

I don't remember running Vista: I was on XP before on my Macbook 2008 and was resisting going to Vista.

But maybe the earlier Windows 7 images were built on Vista?

So maybe I am running on a buggy Windows 7 platform?

Is there any way I ran change that without just wiping my BootCamp and re-starting with a clean install of Windows 7?

Maybe that's what I should do.

Be a lot of effort to re-instal my 3rd party software, but THIS is turning into a big effort too.

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 27, 2014 6:29 AM in response to WarthogARJ

Yes, I can see the image (A picture is worth a thousand words and all that...).

This is a silly question, but is this showing up when using Parallels and Bootcamp, or straight from Bootcamp? If this is via Parallels, leave the current settings as they are, and test directly via Bootcamp.

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

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Sep 27, 2014 7:01 AM in response to Loner T

It is using Parallels.

I have not been able to boot up straight into BootCamp.

If something finally allows that then for sure I'll say that.

So what do you say?

Is there any painless way to upgrade/clean install my Windows to Windows 7 and still keep my BootCamp files?

Not my data: that's easy.

But my other software.

The brute force way is to wipe the BootCamp partition and start from scratch.

Install fresh Windows 7 Ultimate: clean install.

Then re-install all 3rd part software I have.

In all honesty, I'm tending towards that now.

I need to run Win 32 bit: a lot of my software needs that.

And I need Windows 7 Windows 8 is just too new, I think i'll have hassles with some things I run.

WarthogARJ Author

Level 1

8 points

Sep 27, 2014 7:33 AM in response to WarthogARJ

When I check my install (via Parallels) it DOES say it is a Windows 6.1.

Which is Windows 7 (confusing nomenclature indeed).

So I really don't know where this Vista tag comes from in the msconfig.

Not good to see though.

As a test, I just made a fresh parallels machine using my Ultimate X86 ISO image and it says in msconfig that it is Ultimate.

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 27, 2014 7:46 AM in response to WarthogARJ

Leave the setting for Base Video on and try to run Bootcamp directly using the ALT key.

When I ran a test using VMware and modified the boot setting via msconfig it came up in Safe mode using Bootcamp (and I am using W7 Pro).

WarthogARJ Author

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Sep 27, 2014 8:39 AM in response to Loner T

Nope still freezes in boot up using ALT.

I think I'm going to take the hit and just wipe BootCamp and start fresh and clean.

I can always bring it back from my WinClone backup.

I'm getting a bit fed-up with this.

And maybe I should be more rigorous about adding software so it's easier to re-install if I need to in future.

I keep copies, but not in a very organized way.

I am thinking of:

- deleting BootCamp

- making fresh BootCamp and installing a known version of Win Ultimate X86 SP1 from an ISO 9with BC drivers etc)

I'll keep a copy of my BootCamp partition files on another hard drive: I should be able to boot that up in Parallels in case I need to get details of 3rd party software

I am not sure how WinClone works: I think it's a complete image of the partition, and if I re-install it, it will do the same messy Windows OS.

What do you use to backup your Windows partition?

Loner T

Level 9

59,513 points

Sep 27, 2014 9:22 AM in response to WarthogARJ

1. Create a Winclone of the current Parallels/Bootcamp. Create a TM backup of OS X side.

2. Note down all the software that you need and ensure that you have all the corresponding installers.

3. Wipe Parallels, wipe the current Bootcamp installation. You have two disks, which can create issues for Bootcamp Assistant. If possible remove the disk which will not have Windows on it, from the internal SATA connection. This leaves only the designated disk in the main SATA bay (not in the Optibay - due to SATA speed issues). You can always boot OS X from an external drive. You may be forced to go to 64-bit Windows based on your current hardware and OS X installed.

4. Winclone should work, but you have an esoteric two-disk configuration. I assume you have Winclone 4.

5. To backup windows. I have a NTFS partition on an external USB drive and I use native Windows backups.

Repairing Boot Camp after upgrading to Mavericks: Jarvis