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Bootcamp unrecognized after restoring Windows from system image

A had a major failure (not sure exactly what happened) that resulted in me not being able to boot into OS X Yosemite, but my Bootcamp partition worked fine. After a long process, complicated by other issues, I had to wipe the drive reinstall Yosemite, restore from my Time Machine backup, and reinstall Windows via Bootcamp.


The final step in the process was to restore my Windows partition from a system image. The system image was made with Window's built-in utility, and was restored via a Windows repair disc created with a built-in utility. No 3rd party software used, and no 3rd party NTFS software on my Mac.


I have now restored, and the Bootcamp partition itself works fine. However, Mac OS doesn't recognize it. It doesn't appear in my sidebar. In Disk Utility it shows up greyed out (and I can't mount it) and it is named "disk0s4" instead of "BOOTCAMP". I also cannot select it as my startup disk in System Preferences. I CAN start up my computer holding the option key and select the drive.


[REDACTED] diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD 399.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 100.0 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1

1: Windows_NTFS Windows Backup 500.1 GB disk1s1

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Repair disc Windows... *173.4 MB disk2


I think I might know what the problem is. When restoring Windows from the system image I was forced to reformat and repartition my drive as part of the process, but I couldn't chose what format I wanted (it claims it formatted and partitioned my drive, but OS X was unaffected). After the restore, my Windows partition is FAT (I'm pretty sure it was NTFS before). My system image is NTFS, so I'm not sure why this happened.


Has anyone run into this before? Does anyone know how I can restore Windows from a system image and have it format my drive as NTFS? Or is there another way to solve this problem? It has been a long week without a functioning computer, and I am 95% of the way back to where I started. Any help is greatly appreciated!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 14, 2014 5:24 PM

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Posted on Nov 14, 2014 6:15 PM

Can you post the output of


diskutil cs list

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C


These commands show CoreStorage volumes, the MBR, GPT and show the NTFS header on the partition. You will prompted for your password.


As you can see /dev/disk1 shows the NTFS drive.

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Bootcamp unrecognized after restoring Windows from system image

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