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Bootcamp not working after Yosemite update

Hi,


I have similar problem after updating to Yosemite, now I can't boot into windows. There is no Windows option at startup when holding on ALT button and in disk utility, it showed Mac OS X partition with disks greyed out. I updated to Yosemite on my 11 inch Mac air and Mac Pro with no problem, before I decided to update my sons iMac (which has his school work) and ran into this problem. I remembered I use a third party program called Paragon NTFS. Could this be the problem?


Please Help.

Posted on Oct 27, 2014 5:19 AM

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Oct 30, 2014 3:26 PM in response to Redeagles-143

The Gdisk tool will not let you define overlapping partitions. Your OS X partitions ends at 858777823, Recovery HD starts on the next byte.


The start of 781864960, as discovered by Testdisk, is sitting in your main OS X partition. My suspicion is that the Yosemite upgrade has a bug in calculating the correct placement of partition headers, causing such problems.


This is the first time I have seen Testdisk point inside the OS X partition. To get your Windows partition back, there are the following implications


1. You will lose your RecoveryHD, but it can be recreated once Windows is working, by re-installing Yosemite (without touching any of your files).

2. You will also

a. either lose all of your OSX partition, or,

b. at least parts of it, which starts at 781864960 and currently ends at 858777823. This can compromise your OS X partition.


Before any of this is done, you should backup OS X using Time Machine or some other tool.


Another option is to look at a tool called PhotoRec (referenced on the Testdisk web page), extract all your files from this start/end/size found by Testdisk, and remove Windows after you confirm that you have all files you need, and re-install Windows and all your software from scratch .


You need to decide which path should be pursued further.

Oct 30, 2014 4:27 PM in response to Loner T

Can I use PhotoRec to extract the files to an external drive and then put this drive to another windows 7 machine and see what files have beven extracted before I decided on which options. I'm in process of backing the OS X partition, once that's done the we can delete it and also the recovery HD partition. Most important thing is to preserve the windows partition so that we can find a different way of extracting the files if using GDisk fails.

Oct 31, 2014 8:26 PM in response to Redeagles-143

1. Boot from the external drive, because the following set of steps will render OS X almost useless and corrupted.

2. In Yosemite Upgrade Broke Bootcamp there is a set of 5 steps to delete GPT#4 and recreate it with what Testdisk indicates as the start/end/size triplet. In your case, because the start is somewhere within your GPT#2 (please double check before you make any changes), you will need to delete GPT#2, #3 and #4 and recreate GPT#2 with 781864960/1257201663 as start/end.

3. One thing that bothers me a bit is that your first screen shows Bootcamp is about 559Gb, but the start/end/size is only 226GB. If you are very certain that the pre-upgrade size is about 600GB, you may want to consider using the end to be at 1953523711 (one byte before the backup GPT starts). This will give the entire disk to Windows, after GPT#1 till the end of the disk. In Step 2 above, the current GPT#2,3,4 are being deleted anyway, so it is practically the whole disk.

4. Your Hybrid MBR creation (in the referenced article, it is step 5) will only be the new GPT#2, and it will be marked bootable, so you will have only two entries in your Fdisk output.

5. You mentioned Paragon NTFS, so it's effect is unknown at this point.

6. Did you upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite or from Snow Leopard to Yosemite?


Please ask questions, before we commit to going down this path.

Bootcamp not working after Yosemite update

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