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win7 on bootcamp doesn't boot after upgrading Yosemite to 10.10.3

I owe a mac mini 2012 with 2 disks (no fusion disk here):

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On bootcamp partition I installed windows 7 but after upgrading Yosemite to 10.10.3 it refuses to boot.

I see bootcamp disk in both Settings/Start Disk and restarting my mac with the option key pressed.


But, when I try to boot in windows, it starts with the recovery console. If I select normal start, it flashes a BSOD for a second and restart the mac.

If I try to enter in recovery mode it can't solve the issues. Also I don't have any restore image available.


I discovered that the BSOD makes reference to a corrupted MBR that I assume is an issue due to Yosemite upgrade.


Sorry for my poor english.

Hope someone can help me! Thanks a lot!

Mac mini (Mid 2010), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 26, 2015 10:03 AM

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Apr 26, 2015 10:25 AM in response to senzapatria

I've executed the terminal "test" commands with this result


diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac Dati 999.9 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac HD 159.5 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 72.9 GB disk1s4

diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 488397167

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 311492792 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

311902432 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

313171968 142444544 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

455616512 32780623

488397135 32 Sec GPT table

488397167 1 Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 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 - 311492792] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 311902432 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 313171968 - 142444544] HPFS/QNX/AUX


Doesn't seem to me that I have a lost partition like in the other thread.

Note that the unformatted partition at the end of the ssd disk was intentionally left blank for performance purposes.

Apr 26, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Loner T

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk1s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

Password:

00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS .....|

00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 a0 aa 12 |........?.......|

00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff ff bf 08 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 b6 82 4f 8a bd 4f 8a ac |..........O..O..|

00000050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 68 c0 07 |.....3.....|.h..|

00000060 1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16 0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e |..hf......f.>..N|

00000070 54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb |TFSu..A..U..r...|

00000080 55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00 75 03 e9 d2 00 1e 83 ec |U.u.....u.......|

00000090 18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16 0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13 |.h...H..........|

000000a0 9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72 e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3 |.....X.r.;...u..|

000000b0 0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e 5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8 |........Z3... +.|

000000c0 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8 |f...............|

000000d0 40 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d |@.+.w......f#.u-|

000000e0 66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75 24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16 |f..TCPAu$....r..|

000000f0 68 07 bb 16 68 70 0e 16 68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66 |h...hp..h..fSfSf|

00000100 55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66 61 0e 07 cd 1a e9 6a 01 |U...h..fa.....j.|

00000110 90 90 66 60 1e 06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06 1c 00 1e |..f`..f...f.....|

00000120 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00 68 10 00 |fh....fP.Sh..h..|

00000130 b4 42 8a 16 0e 00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66 59 5b 5a |.B..........fY[Z|

00000140 66 59 66 59 1f 0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 |fYfY.....f......|

00000150 0f 00 8e c2 ff 0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66 61 c3 a0 |........u...fa..|

00000160 f8 01 e8 08 00 a0 fb 01 e8 02 00 eb fe b4 01 8b |................|

00000170 f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb f2 c3 |..<.t...........|

00000180 0d 0a 41 20 64 69 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 20 65 72 |..A disk read er|

00000190 72 6f 72 20 6f 63 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 0d 0a 42 |ror occurred...B|

000001a0 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 20 69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e |OOTMGR is missin|

000001b0 67 00 0d 0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 20 69 73 20 63 |g...BOOTMGR is c|

000001c0 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 |ompressed...Pres|

000001d0 73 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b 44 65 6c 20 74 |s Ctrl+Alt+Del t|

000001e0 6f 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 |o restart.......|

000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 9d b2 ca 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|

00000200

tnx

Apr 26, 2015 10:51 AM in response to Kappy

So... I imagine that the sequence that apply to my case is this:


Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0 disk1

P (Print list of parts)

R (Recover)

H (chooses Hybrid)

Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4 (only partition number 4 right?)

Y (Good for GRUB question)

N (part 2 boot flag)

N (part 3 boot flag)

Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)

W (Write the new MBR)

Y (Yes! write the new MBR)

Reboot


Is that correct? Please help!

Apr 26, 2015 12:31 PM in response to senzapatria

Yosemite does boot your Windows. Windows does not want to stay up and boot properly. You have two options.


1. Use bootrec.exe - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392?wa=wsignin1.0. I suggest using /ScanOS first, before anything is repaired.

2. Use EasyBCD - https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootrec/ which will allow you to recover the Boot parts of Windows. Be aware that it can cause issues, because it does not understand Hybrid MBRs and make you disk a MBR-Only disk, which disallows OS X from booting.

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