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Bootcamp disappears after creating third partition

I use my Mac mini as a secondary computer for home use and wanted to expand the partition space on the Windows side. I carved a third partition out of the Mac side to create 64GB to extend on the Windows side, but when I restarted the computer, the Windows partition doesn't show up--even though Disk Utility shows the partition still exists and the files are still there.


Here is the partition dialogue window (the 160GB space is the Bootcamp space; the smaller slice of the pie is the 64GB third partition):


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Is the Bootcamp partition recoverable in any way?

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Sep 30, 2015 7:41 PM

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Oct 3, 2015 5:21 AM in response to Loner T

Thank you! U solved my problem. I had same issue as topic author.


I have a question.


Why do u add 3 partitions in MBR?


Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 3 4 5


3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS Untitled 64.2 GB disk0s4

5: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 160.0 GB disk0s5


Could I add only Partition 5 to make Windows bootable?

Oct 3, 2015 5:54 AM in response to GxocT

GxocT wrote:


Why do u add 3 partitions in MBR?


Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 3 4 5


3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS Untitled 64.2 GB disk0s4

5: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 160.0 GB disk0s5


Could I add only Partition 5 to make Windows bootable?

Yes, and you will end up with two entries in the MBR. Usually, there is a 1:1 correspondence between the two, to avoid confusion when someone is looking at the two structures. The way it is currently...


EFI = MBR1

GPT1+2+3 = MBR2

GPT4 = MBR3

GPT5 = MBR4


This allows access to GPT4 = MBR3 from both sides, but you lose access to GPT1+2+3 because there is no driver to read parts of filesystems.

Sep 21, 2016 10:37 PM in response to Loner T

Well, i have the same problem, but the thing is that i just cant disable csrutil. I'm booting in internet recovery mode, "csrutil disable" gives "command not found", and /Volumes/Untitled/usr/bin/csrutil disable gives "operation is not permitted". Is there any other way to make BOOTCAMP partition bootable again, or maybe there's different way to disable csrutil?

Sep 22, 2016 5:25 AM in response to kotyapshek

kotyapshek wrote:


Well, i have the same problem, but the thing is that i just cant disable csrutil. I'm booting in internet recovery mode, "csrutil disable" gives "command not found"

This command is valid in Local Recovery only. However, you can use How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support and install/upgrade OS X to match the version on your internal disk, and then boot from this using the Local Recovery from the external disk and run csrutil.

Sep 29, 2016 10:14 AM in response to Loner T

I have done everything another way. I made a bootable falsh drive (finally) and booted from it, i couldn't boot into local recovery because on the flash was Mac Os Lion, an i already have Sierra. I knew that there's no csrutil on older versions of mac os, so i've wrote all the commands (

sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0

p

setpid 4

07

flag 4

p

write

y

)
and rebooted. I was surprised, it worked. I could load to Untitled (mac), flash drive and bootcamp (windows). Well, i believed that everything is alright and booted to windows. But everything i could see - black screen and flashing "_" on the top left corner. Before i used commands, i tried to force-load bootcamp partition, and it wrote "Insert a bootable..." and something else. But now there's just nothing. Is it fixable?

Sep 29, 2016 10:18 AM in response to kotyapshek

Please start a new discussion and post the output of the same commands as shown.


diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.

Bootcamp disappears after creating third partition

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