Boot camp parition missing after upgrade to OS X Yosemite

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Boot camp parition missing after upgrade to OS X Yosemite

Lately I upgraded my Mac OS X to Yosemite, and my Boot camp parition is gone.

It would be nice if someone would help me to recover it.

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macbook 79.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS 9.6 GB disk0s4

5: Microsoft Basic Data 30.0 GB disk0s5

$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=120034123776; sectorsize=512; blocks=234441648

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 234441647

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 155242608 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

155652248 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

156921784 18665544 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

175587328 262144

175849472 58591232 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

234440704 911

234441615 32 Sec GPT table

234441647 1 Sec GPT header

$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 0 0 2 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 175849471] <Unknown ID>

*2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 175849472 - 58591232] HPFS/QNX/AUX

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

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

I've followed the instructions: http://nerdr.com/bootcamp-partition-lost-repairing-mac-partitions/ and added partition 5 to MBR, now when my mac is booting up and I hold ALT key, I can choose Windows, but when I do there is info: Missing operating system.

Is there any way to fix it?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), half of 2010

Posted on Dec 8, 2014 10:15 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Dec 8, 2014 11:28 AM in response to lponiewierski

Please post the output of the following terminal command.

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s5 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

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Answer 2

Dec 8, 2014 12:45 PM in response to Loner T

$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s5 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

*

00000200

maybe this also be helpful:

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

00000000 46 49 4c 45 30 00 03 00 5d 4c 65 2e 00 00 00 00 |FILE0...]Le.....|

00000010 04 00 02 00 38 00 03 00 d8 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 |....8...........|

00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 2c fb 01 00 |............,...|

00000030 05 00 34 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 |..4.........`...|

00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 |........H.......|

00000050 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 80 37 b2 7b 8d 34 cf 01 |`..{.4...7.{.4..|

00000060 80 37 b2 7b 8d 34 cf 01 80 37 b2 7b 8d 34 cf 01 |.7.{.4...7.{.4..|

00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000080 00 00 00 00 ab 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000090 e8 14 47 0d 00 00 00 00 30 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 |..G.....0...x...|

000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 5a 00 00 00 18 00 01 00 |........Z.......|

000000b0 f7 0a 00 00 00 00 01 00 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 |........`..{.4..|

000000c0 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 |`..{.4..`..{.4..|

000000d0 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |`..{.4..........|

000000e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 |................|

000000f0 0c 02 58 00 38 00 46 00 32 00 31 00 42 00 7e 00 |..X.8.F.2.1.B.~.|

00000100 31 00 2e 00 31 00 36 00 34 00 74 00 2d 00 77 00 |1...1.6.4.t.-.w.|

00000110 30 00 00 00 28 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 |0...(...........|

00000120 0a 01 00 00 18 00 01 00 f7 0a 00 00 00 00 01 00 |................|

00000130 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 60 e9 b1 7b 8d 34 cf 01 |`..{.4..`..{.4..|

*

00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000160 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 64 01 78 00 38 00 36 00 |........d.x.8.6.|

00000170 5f 00 6d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 |_.m.i.c.r.o.s.o.|

00000180 66 00 74 00 2d 00 77 00 69 00 6e 00 64 00 6f 00 |f.t.-.w.i.n.d.o.|

00000190 77 00 73 00 2d 00 69 00 65 00 2d 00 62 00 65 00 |w.s.-.i.e.-.b.e.|

000001a0 68 00 61 00 76 00 69 00 6f 00 72 00 73 00 2e 00 |h.a.v.i.o.r.s...|

000001b0 72 00 65 00 73 00 6f 00 75 00 72 00 63 00 65 00 |r.e.s.o.u.r.c.e.|

000001c0 73 00 5f 00 33 00 31 00 62 00 66 00 33 00 38 00 |s._.3.1.b.f.3.8.|

000001d0 35 00 36 00 61 00 64 00 33 00 36 00 34 00 65 00 |5.6.a.d.3.6.4.e.|

000001e0 33 00 35 00 5f 00 31 00 31 00 2e 00 32 00 2e 00 |3.5._.1.1...2...|

000001f0 39 00 36 00 30 00 30 00 2e 00 31 00 36 00 05 00 |9.6.0.0...1.6...|

00000200

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Answer 3

Loner T

Level 9

59,536 points

Dec 8, 2014 12:41 PM in response to lponiewierski

You do not have a valid NTFS header. You will need Testdisk and GPT Fdisk (disk).

Please see Bootcamp partition has disappeared after upgrade to Yosemite 10.10 as an example of the next steps.

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Answer 4

Dec 8, 2014 10:36 PM in response to Loner T

Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 120 GB / 111 GiB - 234441648 sectors (RO)

Current partition structure:

Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI System Partition]

2 P Mac HFS 409640 155652247 155242608 [Macbook]

3 P Mac Boot 155652248 156921783 1269536 [Recovery HD]

No HFS or HFS+ structure

4 P Mac HFS 156921784 175587327 18665544 [Macbook 2]

No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker

5 P MS Data 175849472 234440703 58591232 [BOOTCAMP]

after quick search:

Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 120 GB / 111 GiB - 234441648 sectors (RO)

The harddisk (120 GB / 111 GiB) seems too small! (< 159 GB / 148 GiB)

Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...

The following partitions can't be recovered:

Partition Start End Size in sectors

MS Data 185967416 244558647 58591232

MS Data 234440696 312221680 77780985

> MS Data 234440703 293031934 58591232

after deep search:

Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 120 GB / 111 GiB - 234441648 sectors (RO)

The harddisk (120 GB / 111 GiB) seems too small! (< 159 GB / 148 GiB)

Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...

The following partitions can't be recovered:

Partition Start End Size in sectors

> Mac HFS 155652244 310894851 155242608

MS Data 185967416 244558647 58591232

MS Data 234440696 312221680 77780985

MS Data 234440703 293031934 58591232

when continue:

Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 120 GB / 111 GiB - 234441648 sectors (RO)

Partition Start End Size in sectors

>D EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI]

D EFI System 46 409645 409600 [EFI]

D Mac HFS 409640 155652247 155242608

D Mac HFS 417336 155659943 155242608

D Mac HFS 419393 155662000 155242608

D Mac HFS 420098 155662705 155242608

D Mac HFS 420307 155662914 155242608

D Mac HFS 420516 155663123 155242608

D Mac HFS 420733 155663340 155242608

D Mac HFS 421718 155664325 155242608

D Mac HFS 422343 155664950 155242608

D Mac HFS 422952 155665559 155242608

D Mac HFS 423609 155666216 155242608

D Mac HFS 424162 155666769 155242608

D Mac HFS 424771 155667378 155242608

D Mac HFS 425171 155667778 155242608

D Mac HFS 425428 155668035 155242608

D Mac HFS 425653 155668260 155242608

D Mac HFS 425910 155668517 155242608

D Mac HFS 426199 155668806 155242608

D Mac HFS 426536 155669143 155242608

D Mac HFS 427217 155669824 155242608

D Mac HFS 427546 155670153 155242608

D Mac HFS 427771 155670378 155242608

D Mac HFS 428244 155670851 155242608

D Mac HFS 428661 155671268 155242608

D Mac HFS 428926 155671533 155242608

D Mac HFS 429247 155671854 155242608

D Mac HFS 429720 155672327 155242608

D Mac HFS 430201 155672808 155242608

D Mac HFS 430498 155673105 155242608

D Mac HFS 430747 155673354 155242608

D Mac HFS 431020 155673627 155242608

D Mac HFS 431477 155674084 155242608

D Mac HFS 432414 155675021 155242608

D Mac HFS 432959 155675566 155242608

D Mac HFS 433504 155676111 155242608

D Mac HFS 433857 155676464 155242608

D Mac HFS 434418 155677025 155242608

D Mac HFS 434843 155677450 155242608

D Mac HFS 435644 155678251 155242608

D Mac HFS 436325 155678932 155242608

D Mac HFS 436862 155679469 155242608

D Mac HFS 437311 155679918 155242608

D Mac HFS 437784 155680391 155242608

D Mac HFS 438001 155680608 155242608

D Mac HFS 438210 155680817 155242608

D Mac HFS 438427 155681034 155242608

D Mac HFS 438908 155681515 155242608

D Mac HFS 439309 155681916 155242608

D Mac HFS 439894 155682501 155242608

D Mac HFS 440303 155682910 155242608

D Mac HFS 440792 155683399 155242608

D Mac HFS 441169 155683776 155242608

D Mac HFS 441706 155684313 155242608

D Mac HFS 442099 155684706 155242608

D Mac HFS 442668 155685275 155242608

D Mac HFS 443069 155685676 155242608

D Mac HFS 443558 155686165 155242608

D Mac HFS 444015 155686622 155242608

D Mac HFS 444536 155687143 155242608

D Mac HFS 444969 155687576 155242608

D Mac HFS 445450 155688057 155242608

D Mac HFS 445875 155688482 155242608

D Mac HFS 446412 155689019 155242608

D Mac HFS 446805 155689412 155242608

D Mac HFS 447646 155690253 155242608

D MS Data 13622511 13628684 6174

D MS Data 13628684 13634857 6174 [Boot]

D MS Data 13634972 13655710 20739 [NO NAME]

D MS Data 43476960 121257944 77780985

D MS Data 62666720 121257951 58591232

D MS Data 112968699 112989437 20739 [NO NAME]

D MS Data 121257944 199038928 77780985

D MS Data 121257951 179849182 58591232

D MS Data 127376185 185967416 58591232

D Mac HFS 154382716 155652251 1269536

D Mac HFS 154382979 155652514 1269536

D Mac HFS 154383260 155652795 1269536

D Mac HFS 154383453 155652988 1269536

D Mac HFS 154383678 155653213 1269536

D Mac HFS 155652248 156921783 1269536

D Mac HFS 155652511 156922046 1269536

D Mac HFS 155652792 156922327 1269536

D Mac HFS 155652985 156922520 1269536

D Mac HFS 155653210 156922745 1269536

D MS Data 156659712 234440696 77780985

D Mac HFS 156921780 158191315 1269536

D MS Data 167981947 168002685 20739 [NO NAME]

D MS Data 175849472 234440703 58591232

D MS Data 191525163 191531336 6174

D MS Data 191531336 191537509 6174 [Boot]

D MS Data 191531355 191537528 6174

D MS Data 191537528 191543701 6174 [Boot]

D MS Data 195134515 195140688 6174

>D MS Data 195140688 195146861 6174 [Boot]

Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.

Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:

P=Primary D=Deleted

Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,

Enter: to continue

Could you help me with start and end offset?

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Answer 5

Loner T

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Dec 9, 2014 5:24 AM in response to lponiewierski

How was this specific configuration created? You have a 9.6GB HFS+ as GPT#4. Can you please describe the partition changes made to this Mac in the past?

156921784 18665544 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

175587328 262144

175849472 58591232 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

Did you have two versions of OSX at some point on this Mac?

4 P Mac HFS 156921784 175587327 18665544 [Macbook 2]

4 P Mac HFS 156921784 175587327 18665544 [Macbook 2]

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Answer 6

Dec 9, 2014 8:19 AM in response to Loner T

First I created boot camp partition with 30 GB, next I extended it to 40.

Now I've got only one version of OS X.

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Answer 7

Loner T

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Dec 9, 2014 11:58 AM in response to lponiewierski

Resizing Windows or adding/removing partitions creates many issues. If Testdisk cannot find the appropriate header, there may not be an option other than re-installation of Windows after creating a single-partition OSX disk.

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

Can you post the output of

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s5 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

since your fifth entry (disk0s5) is Bootcamp, not disk0s4.

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Answer 8

Dec 9, 2014 1:28 PM in response to Loner T

I've posted it before, when you asked me to do it for the first time.

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Answer 9

Loner T

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Dec 9, 2014 2:59 PM in response to lponiewierski

Ah, I see it now. There is no NTFS header on rdisk0s5. 😟

175587328 262144

175849472 58591232 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

Can you check these entries from your Testdisk output, for files?

D MS Data 121257944 199038928 77780985

D MS Data 121257951 179849182 58591232

D MS Data 127376185 185967416 58591232

D MS Data 156659712 234440696 77780985

The first three entries are located somewhere in your OSX partition and may be damaged. This is your GPT3.

155652248 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

If the following table is used to look at the last entry that I have listed in the four MS Data entries, I get

GPT 3 Start	GPT 3 Size	GPT 3 End	NTFS Start	Sector Offset	NTFS Size	NTFS End
155652248	1269536	156921784	156659712	-262072	77780985	234440697	-127.9648438

NTFS Size is roughly 37+ GB, and this partition is about 127MB inside your Recovery HD, which means you will lose GPT#4 and parts of GPT#3. It can be tested, but Testdisk should be used first to look for familiar files first.

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Answer 10

Dec 11, 2014 12:21 AM in response to Loner T

Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged.

:/

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Answer 11

Loner T

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Dec 11, 2014 5:21 AM in response to lponiewierski

Please look at the others in this list as well.

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Answer 12

Dec 12, 2014 9:49 AM in response to Loner T

I've checked all.

In most of them there is the same info.

In few of them there is only one entry System Volume Information.

In one I found more entries but names weren't familiar to me.

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 3508176671 30-Oct-1916 11:10 ~N~TG >~G

>dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 3529124969 18-Sep-1960 13:15 /kWC ~^".

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 3210166732 17-Mar-2005 07:11 Ǳ^SW ^D.J

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 3507088867 18-Dec-1935 06:37 Z*m .

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 1076041519 21-Feb-2027 21:40 ^Z ^V^L^N5.

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 1469335860 1-Dec-1920 12:15 ^KF E~[ %[n

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 3778361690 10-Apr-1962 17:40 ~Xft K ~I^A. ,^Q

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 1678626243 27-Apr-1907 23:20 gx=~U~\^_^].!)

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 244965433 16-Jun-1961 23:02 8 S(.^\

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 2907995155 9-Aug-1945 00:58 ~XG ^T

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 3575919011 30-Jul-1935 05:02 0 ~W~Z

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 3987199204 1-Apr-1943 11:56 +Y.^K@~[

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 3604974758 1-May-1996 07:33 `N(!~W ȓ.D^Y,

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 1374260411 11-Jul-1990 03:02 *^R. Qޠ. 7

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 3101050474 25-Oct-1948 13:51 d ~Dv> ~\:.p=

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 837758736 31-Mar-2033 14:27 ^DR . g

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 274855253 17-Apr-1958 10:28 n^X~Em~G"'^S.ps

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 3227312331 19-May-1957 10:21 Q~R~Iϛ0F. ~I

~Qrwxr-xr-x 0 0 3698341093 27-Jan-1927 11:34 ~B^\l.-

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 2632236692 12-Mar-2007 15:46 338.k

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 4049906661 25-Sep-1918 03:39 T=.m 2

-rwxr-xr-x 0 0 2078454823 27-May-2006 15:22 8 &^C ^Y. ~F

-r-xr-xr-x 0 0 813090960 23-Jan-2001 15:17 ~_^F^A^D~GG .

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 2303902399 10-Feb-1956 14:17 > ) nQ^G y

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Answer 13

Loner T

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Dec 12, 2014 10:15 AM in response to lponiewierski

The size and dates indicate bad corruption in the MFT. Are there any other MS Data entries in Deeper Search output?

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Answer 14

Dec 12, 2014 11:05 AM in response to Loner T

I've posted the whole list earlier, there is about 20, and I've checked all of them.

I think I'll have to deal with it 😐

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Answer 15

Loner T

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Dec 12, 2014 11:16 AM in response to lponiewierski

You can try a tool called PhotoRec, but it cannot figure out the files names if MFT is corrupted. You may be able to retrieve files.

Your last resort to a full clean install of Bootcamp/Windows. It is rather unfortunate.

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