The Rogue
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Q: Bootcamp not Booting

Yosemite and Windows 7 was working just fine for some months until I installed Paragon Bootcamp Backup, ran it once and then tried to boot into Bootcamp.

 

It would sit there forever at the boot menu after selecting BC either with the option key or from startup prefs. No error messages.

 

Ran disk repair on the volume, results show no errors. Did the SMC and PRAM resets.

 

I can see the BC partition in Disk Utility, in Finder and can access its files.

 

Created a bootable drive on a thumb drive from the ISO image but cannot boot from that either, same results.

 

Can boot to anything but Windows. I have seen references to Terminal-based solutions but obviously I want to be quite sure of any remedy I apply in Terminal.

 

What else can I try? Thanks.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 30, 2015 8:44 AM

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  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Oct 30, 2015 9:26 AM in response to The Rogue
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    Oct 30, 2015 9:26 AM in response to The Rogue

    The Rogue wrote:

     

    ...What else can I try? Thanks.

    Both VMware Fusion and Parallels can create an independent virtual machine from a Boot Camp partition. Since that partition still exists, you can try the virtual machine route.

  • by The Rogue,

    The Rogue The Rogue Oct 30, 2015 12:45 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Oct 30, 2015 12:45 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    That is not a solution. Can you tell me how to repair BC so I can boot to it?

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Oct 30, 2015 2:07 PM in response to The Rogue
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    Oct 30, 2015 2:07 PM in response to The Rogue

    Well, it is a solution to getting Windows 7 working again, but since your original post implies that Paragon Bootcamp Backup caused the problem, I'd suggest contacting Paragon for a solution to getting Boot Camp working. You might also raise the question in the Windows Compatibility Forum.

  • by The Rogue,

    The Rogue The Rogue Oct 30, 2015 2:26 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Oct 30, 2015 2:26 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    Forgive me if I am a bit testy. I do not want a bandaid fix. Something is amiss in the tables and I need to know how to repair that. Suggesting VmWare or Parallels is not going to fix this. I need to fix the partition tables. One sugestion was to resize the partitions but I am not allowed to do that. Any other ideas?

     

    Paragon was the first place I went to. But after waiting nearly 2 weeks, I got 2 very unhelpful replies.

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Oct 30, 2015 2:33 PM in response to The Rogue
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    Oct 30, 2015 2:33 PM in response to The Rogue

    In that case, I'd repeat my suggestion to post on the Window Compatibility forum since Apple's only compatibility solution is Boot Camp and that's where most of its users go.

  • by The Rogue,

    The Rogue The Rogue Oct 31, 2015 11:17 AM in response to The Rogue
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    Oct 31, 2015 11:17 AM in response to The Rogue

    Ok putting Paragon aside for the moment, I ran this that I found from another thread.

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

     

    This is the output. The internal drive has 3 partitions, Mac OS X, Windows and the recovery partition. Is there anything that may point to a problem?

     

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

     

     

     

     

     

    diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         599.3 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:       Microsoft Basic Data BootCamp                150.0 GB   disk0s4

    /dev/disk1

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                  Apple_HFS  Yosemite HD           *598.9 GB   disk1

                                     Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                     7D1C99EA-E69E-4A6B-A9BD-343423019AD9

                                     Unencrypted

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$ diskutil cs list

    CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

    |

    +-- Logical Volume Group B22ECF98-AFCD-408A-8DD9-7C4C76B93006

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

        Name:         Yosemite HD

        Status:       Online

        Size:         599296622592 B (599.3 GB)

        Free Space:   18939904 B (18.9 MB)

        |

        +-< Physical Volume B7FDC89E-B5F3-44AC-8F93-56E888FFEBF7

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

        |   Index:    0

        |   Disk:     disk0s2

        |   Status:   Online

        |   Size:     599296622592 B (599.3 GB)

        |

        +-> Logical Volume Family 65E28397-4AB9-4255-92FC-F0D47EA8EB5E

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

            Encryption Status:       Unlocked

            Encryption Type:         None

            Conversion Status:       NoConversion

            Conversion Direction:    -none-

            Has Encrypted Extents:   No

            Fully Secure:            No

            Passphrase Required:     No

            |

            +-> Logical Volume 7D1C99EA-E69E-4A6B-A9BD-343423019AD9

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

                Disk:                  disk1

                Status:                Online

                Size (Total):          598925361152 B (598.9 GB)

                Conversion Progress:   -none-

                Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)

                LV Name:                Yosemite HD

                Volume Name:            Yosemite HD

                Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168

    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 1465149167

           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  1170501216      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      1170910856     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      1172180392         600        

      1172180992   292966400      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

      1465147392        1743        

      1465149135          32         Sec GPT table

      1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$

    Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Robert$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

    Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 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: AC 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 - 1170501216] <Unknown ID>

    3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1170910856 -    1269536] Darwin Boot

    *4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1172180992 -  292966400] HPFS/QNX/AUX

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Oct 31, 2015 11:30 AM in response to The Rogue
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    Oct 31, 2015 11:30 AM in response to The Rogue

    I'd suggest taking a look at this discussion, especially instructions 7 and 8.

     

    BTW, after all this, be alert to next year when Microsoft slips a Windows 10 upgrade behind your back.