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Bootcamp partition disappeared after El Capitan Upgrade

I upgraded to El Capitan from Yosemite through the App Store. When I press the Option key on boot-up, my Bootcamp partition with Windows 10 and the recovery partition are no longer visible. I really need to recover the Windows partition. I've found a few other threads with the same issue, but I'm creating a separate one since otherwise things might get confusing. I really don't want to mess anything up and lose the data on my Windows partition.


$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 275.1 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data 160.4 GB disk0s4 /dev/disk1 (internal, virtual): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +274.8 GB disk1 Logical Volume on disk0s2 AB8CA084-4793-49EA-968B-F2CDA8D21AC1 Unencrypted

$ diskutil cs list CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) | +-- Logical Volume Group A1BF0291-2C38-426A-BC76-AAC4D302E7C7 ========================================================= Name: Macintosh HD Status: Online Size: 275129389056 B (275.1 GB) Free Space: 18960384 B (19.0 MB) | +-< Physical Volume DF3AFE15-2E63-4A56-9263-273EB952CDEE | ---------------------------------------------------- | Index: 0 | Disk: disk0s2 | Status: Online | Size: 275129389056 B (275.1 GB) | +-> Logical Volume Family C0ACF044-B915-4024-AB1E-67EDD8725683 ---------------------------------------------------------- Encryption Type: None | +-> Logical Volume AB8CA084-4793-49EA-968B-F2CDA8D21AC1 --------------------------------------------------- Disk: disk1 Status: Online Size (Total): 274758107136 B (274.8 GB) Revertible: Yes (no decryption required) LV Name: Macintosh HD Volume Name: Macintosh HD Content Hint: Apple_HFS

$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0 Password: gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060 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 977105059 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 537362088 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 537771728 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 539041264 124748304 663789568 313315328 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 977104896 131 977105027 32 Sec GPT table 977105059 1 Sec GPT header

$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors] Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] 2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 537362088] 3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 537771728 - 1269536] Darwin Boot 4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 663789568 - 313315328] Win95 FAT32L

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 12, 2015 2:10 PM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2015 2:12 PM

Ah, the Malady strikes again. Can you use @Loner T: Boot camp missing after El Capitan - My output as a reference and run Testdisk?

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Oct 12, 2015 2:41 PM in response to Loner T

Ok, I believe I located the lost partition:

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015 Christophe GRENIER http://www.cgsecurity.org MS Data 539041792 976388088 437346297 Directory / >dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 22-Sep-2015 17:35 . dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 22-Sep-2015 17:35 .. dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Oct-2013 09:19 $Recycle.Bin dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 28-Oct-2013 21:12 .Trashes dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 16-Aug-2015 12:44 Boot dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 22-May-2014 19:05 FileStorage dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 4-Apr-2013 23:29 Intel dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 6-May-2013 16:16 Loop dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 15-Apr-2013 09:42 MSOCache dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 10-Jul-2015 07:04 PerfLogs dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 2-Sep-2015 02:18 Program Files dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 17-Sep-2015 03:50 Program Files (x86) dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 4-Sep-2015 00:32 ProgramData dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 16-Aug-2015 12:59 Recovery dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 23-Sep-2015 16:32 System Volume Information Next Use Right to change directory, h to hide Alternate Data Stream q to quit, : to select the current file, a to select all files C to copy the selected files, c to copy the current file

Oct 12, 2015 2:49 PM in response to johnloop

The MS Data line has three numbers, which are sector addresses on disk - Start, End and Size respectively. Start a new Terminal window, run the solution set of Gdisk steps in the linked thread. Substitute the values specific to your output in steps 7 and 8 respectively (step 8 value needs a '+' sign in front of the Size number).

Bootcamp partition disappeared after El Capitan Upgrade

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