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Another bootcamp snafu after OSX update; please help.

Early 2014 27" iMac, i7, 3T Fusion Drive, 32G RAM, OSX & Win8.1


Problem: I updated OSX and after that I was unable to boot into Windows8.1x64 via BootCamp. I am able to run my Windows installation via Parallels (10) and I can see the Bootcamp dialogue if I request it on startup. If I try to boot into Windows either from OSX or from Bootcamp I get the following message (paraphrased): Your PC needs to be repaired, Error code 0x000000e . Any command attempted / repair attempted whether from thumbdrive or HDD loopsback to the same message. Only with a hard reboot can I return to OSX. Attempts to recover the entire drive from an Acronis 2014 sector-by-sector image created before the update fail.


My level of expertise is low.


I decided to post a question after reviewing the following excellent threads here:

Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition

"No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key" after setting up Bootcamp


I believe I can follow them, but have not tried the solutions yet because I don't want to screw the machine up and the results of queries I make are a little different than their examples.


I include below the results of my queries beneath and thank anyone in advance for their help.


gpt show: disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 236306352 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236715992 262144 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236978136 7

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 236978175] <Unknown ID>

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

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

diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 199.4 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.1 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data WinOS 1.0 TB disk1s4

5: Microsoft Basic Data WinStor 997.7 GB disk1s5

6: Apple_CoreStorage 801.4 GB disk1s6

7: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s7

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *1.1 TB disk2

Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2, ...

F782AFC6-0C98-43B2-B384-C1606DDEC7C3

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *4.0 GB disk3

1: DOS_FAT_16 4G USB 4.0 GB disk3s1

/dev/disk4

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *31.6 GB disk4

1: Windows_FAT_32 RECOVERY 31.6 GB disk4s1

/dev/disk5

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *61.9 GB disk5

1: Windows_NTFS 64G USB 61.9 GB disk5s1

/dev/disk6

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *123.6 GB disk6

1: Windows_FAT_32 128G USB 123.6 GB disk6s1

/dev/disk7

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *282.3 MB disk7

1: Apple_HFS Parallels Access 282.2 MB disk7s1

/dev/disk9

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk9

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk9s1

2: Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups 3.0 TB disk9s2

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Posted on Sep 26, 2014 3:48 PM

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Posted on Sep 26, 2014 6:06 PM

On a Fusion drive, Windows can be installed only on the HDD part using a non-EFI Bootcamp method.


Please post the output of


diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1 (This is where your Bootcamp installation is).

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1


Apart from TM (/dev/disk9) and a 4GB (/dev/disk3) Flash drive(?), what are these other drives (/dev/disk4 - /dev/disk9)?


If you have created an additional partition on WinSTOR after Bootcamp was installed, that can be problematic as well.

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Nov 8, 2014 9:51 PM in response to Loner T

LT,


i am working my way through reconstruction from clean install with the SDD and HDD respectively split. I have not attempted to use Parallels yet and will need guidance based on my last experience. My sticking point so far is forcing applications to install on the HDD (D drive) rather than SSD (C drive). Obviously one can tell each application to install on D and I have even set the default application path to D:/Program Files, but some applications still go to C. Most notable is Adobe Master Collection CS6 which will not install completely to D, will not work if installed to D anyway, and which locks up when installed to C because it used up the remaining space and cannot access its own scratch file. I am puzzling over that one. More later, FYI.


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