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Bootcamp Partition not Accessible After Resize of Mac Partition

SpenaJun 24, 2015 10:18 AM

Loner T, I've been struggling with a similar issue and hope you could help. Through my research on this site it seems you've helped many and would like to benefit from your knowledge as well.


I'd like to be able to boot into Windows and can't do it. Yes...I re-sized my Mac Partition using disk util, and my Bootcamp drive disappeared from the start up disk utility in System Preferences. Here's the requisite information, please let me know if you need something else to further analyze. Thank you.


Last login: Wed Jun 24 16:52:44 on ttys001

franks-imac:~ frankmertes$ diskutil list /dev/disk0

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 61.8 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 200.2 GB disk0s4


franks-imac:~ frankmertes$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

Password:

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

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: 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 120750376 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

121160016 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

122429552 463234960

585664512 391108608 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

976773120 15

976773135 32 Sec GPT table

976773167 1 Sec GPT header


franks-imac:~ frankmertes$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 120750376] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 121160016 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 585664512 - 391108608] HPFS/QNX/AUX

franks-imac:~ frankmertes$


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Posted on Jun 24, 2015 10:49 AM

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Jun 24, 2015 11:20 AM in response to Spena

Please scroll down to the first MS Data entry and use 'P' to list files. Can you post a screen shot of the output that you see?


Here is a table of the partitions with the first MS Data as your Windows partition.


GPT 3 StartGPT 3 SizeGPT 3 EndNTFS StartSector OffsetNTFS SizeNTFS EndSector Offset (MB)NTFS(Gb)
121160016126953612242955219376947271339920783003641976773112 34,834 373.365231


Does the size look reasonable? The ~34GB gap is what you will lose in disk space.

Jun 24, 2015 1:16 PM in response to Spena

Install GPT Fdisk (aka gdisk).

Leave your Testdisk display and start a new Terminal Window. You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message. The following steps have values from your Testdisk output (and you can verify) in Steps 7 and 8. Please notice the '+' sign in step 8 (this is called offset notation). The text in parentheses is for informational purpose to describe the action being taken. Gdisk has one-character commands except when entering numbers.


Rebuild GPT4 using start/end offsets


  1. Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
  2. P (print the full list of parts)
  3. D (delete)
  4. 4 (part 4)
  5. N (new part)
  6. 4 (part 4)
  7. 193769472 ( - Start offset in bytes or the start point for Bootcamp part)
  8. +783003641 ( - Size offset, as opposed to End offset)
  9. 0700 (Windows part type)
  10. P (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
  11. W (Write the new GPT)
  12. Y (Yes! really write the new GPT)

This will delete and re-write the GPT partition info for /dev/disk0s4.

Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR. Use defaults for other questions (like partition codes). The only values that need modifications are the Boot flags and step 10. Accept all other defaults that Gdisk offers. Please see thesample Q&A as an example. These steps can be repeated if you make a mistake before you get to Step 12, otherwise start from Step 1 for these steps. Step 6 has numbers which are typed with a space between the numbers.

  1. Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
  2. P (Print list of parts)
  3. R (Recover)
  4. O (print current Hybrid MBR)
  5. H (chooses Hybrid)
  6. Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
  7. Y (Good for GRUB question)
  8. N (part 2 boot flag)
  9. N (part 3 boot flag)
  10. Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)
  11. O (print current Hybrid MBR)
  12. W (Write the new MBR)
  13. Y (Yes! write the new MBR)
  14. Reboot


Here is sample Q&A for this section. Please notice the Press Enter/Return.


Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): Y


Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): Press Enter/Return

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N


Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): Press Enter/Return

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N


Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)

Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): Press Enter/Return

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): Y


Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?

Test 2 - Can you see files in Bootcamp Volume?

Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?

Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.

Bootcamp Partition not Accessible After Resize of Mac Partition

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