Bootcamp not Booting

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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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Answer 1

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.

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Answer 2

The Rogue Author

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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?

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Answer 3

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.

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Answer 4

The Rogue Author

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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.

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Answer 5

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.

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Answer 6

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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

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Answer 7

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.😮

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