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Bootcamp not showing Windows after El Capitan update.

My Macbook asked about updating to El Capitan whilst I was using yesterday and I thought why not. So the update completes without a hitch. Later I restart to go do some work in windows 7, hold down alt as usual and no sign of windows on the start up menu.


So I've read around the net and think I understand what has happened with the OS X installer messing with the partitions, but don't want to totally fry my windows partition without messing with things i don't know a lot about. So can any kind soul please help me through the process of trying to repair it as I have software and data I would really not like to lose.


Thanks

MacBook Pro, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 6:06 AM

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Oct 5, 2015 8:51 AM in response to lcutting87

Please post the output of the following OSX Terminal commands.


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.

Oct 5, 2015 9:22 AM in response to lcutting87

The Gap between GPT3 and GPT4 indicates a lost NTFS header. Can you use Bootcamp fails after Yosemite upgrade (Plz help me Loner!) as reference?


Download Testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download) and GPT Fdisk(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) and start a Testdisk scan. Post a screen shot of Quick Search screen.


Are you ELC, you will need to turn off SIP. Please see Bootcamp won't start after OS X EL update. as an example.

Oct 5, 2015 11:12 AM in response to lcutting87

Using the second and third MS Data entries which are closest to Recovery HD, I get the following two options.


GPT 3 StartGPT 3 SizeGPT 3 EndNTFS StartSector OffsetNTFS SizeNTFS EndSector Offset (MB)NTFS(Gb)Disk EndDisk Difference
1558729952126953615599994881558730752-12687363947929531953523704(620)188.2519535251681464
GPT 3 StartGPT 3 SizeGPT 3 EndNTFS StartSector OffsetNTFS SizeNTFS EndSector Offset (MB)NTFS(Gb)Disk EndDisk Difference
1558729952126953615599994881567157904715841619921715217663750553,49594.991953525168187150113



Can you check the NTFS GB column and verify the correct size before the upgrade? Which version of OSX did you upgrade from?


The first entry is a negative 620MB (almost the same size as Recovery HD) and is somewhere close to the OSX partition, which is the reason for the previous OSX version?

Oct 5, 2015 12:09 PM in response to lcutting87

Hi Loner,

I have the same problem after updating to capitan :-(.

It's lame **** when I updated to Yosemite before.

Bootcamp is still there but when I choose it Bootsector is not found.


Her are the result of diskutil:

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.1 GB disk3

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1

2: Apple_HFS OS X 10.11 Installat... 7.7 GB disk3s2

Markuss-iMac:~ markusplecher$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group AAB83F78-CEF1-403E-95A8-EE3079493464

=========================================================

Name: FusionDrive

Status: Online

Size: 1993298042880 B (2.0 TB)

Free Space: 87958634496 B (88.0 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume B2076DAB-0580-44C6-AF33-A3A027574D67

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume D2C3B367-86C2-4620-A2E7-EA276A61AECF

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk1s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 1872309190656 B (1.9 TB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 6F7A7A6B-3F04-49EA-A973-6D1B9B7CB5D8

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

Encryption Type: None

|

+-> Logical Volume CA321F83-D4DD-47EA-89C5-02E764B4668A

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

Disk: disk2

Status: Online

Size (Total): 1899484151808 B (1.9 TB)

Revertible: No

LV Name: MacintoshFD

Volume Name: MacintoshFD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse

Markuss-iMac:~ markusplecher$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 236306352 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236715992 262144 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236978136 7

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

Bootcamp not showing Windows after El Capitan update.

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