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Windows 7 partition gone after installing Yosemite

Hi!


I recently installed Yosemite (OS X 10.10) and now when I was going to boot my Windows 7 partition (by holding down 'alt' when booting) I realized that it's gone.


When I checked Disk Utility this is what I found:

User uploaded file

The Boot Camp partition is not there. But there's a new partition (Have not seen it before) called disk0s4 and it needs to be repaired. I assume this is my no longer working Boot Camp partition (?)


Should I just choose the recovery option when booting and use an back up from yesterday for the disk called 1TB HD? Or what should I do to get the Windows 7/Boot Camp partition back?


I'm using a late 2009 iMac 27"

iMac, Mac OS X (10.0.x), Late 2009

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 11:00 AM

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Feb 1, 2016 11:41 AM in response to Loner T

Hey, I need help with possibly recovering a Windows 10 bootcamp I had. I'm on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, and Windows 10 was booting fine. I decided one day to boot back into OSX (10.8) and just play around with it a bit. When I tried to get back to Windows though, I found that it had been replaced by a greyed out 'diskOs4' in disk utility that could not be mounted. Holding down option also could not read it.

Feb 1, 2016 11:49 AM in response to TrevirSoftware

Please start a new discussion. El Capitan Upgrade can cause problems with installed Windows. It may still be recoverable.


From/run Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, triple-click each of the following highlighted lines, Copy each line using (Command+C) and Paste (Command+V) in Terminal window. Post the output and after editing it to remove any personal information.


The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.


diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Feb 1, 2016 8:41 PM in response to Loner T

Im not on Capitan, I am on OSX 10.8 (cant remember the cat name of it...) and I didnt upgrade my OS or anything when this happened. All I did was boot into OSX to grab some files I left in it to transfer to windows.


Heres the output:


#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 100.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 64.0 GB disk0s4


No CoreStorage logical volume groups found


gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

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 976773167

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 195312496 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

195722136 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

196991672 654781768

851773440 124999680 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

976773120 15

976773135 32 Sec GPT table

976773167 1 Sec GPT header


Disk: /dev/disk0geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 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 - 195312496] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 195722136 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 851773440 - 124999680] Win95 FAT32L

Windows 7 partition gone after installing Yosemite

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