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Bootcamp partition not showing up on Disk Utility

Model: Macbook Pro 15'' (retina,late 2013) El Captain 10.11.1

SSD: 256GB

trying to install Windows 7 Professional

After partioning my HD, BootCamp Assistant automatically restarted my Mac, and after full restart, an error appeared "Your computer was restarted because of a problem" (kinda like that). Then, i went to check my HD, and thats what i saw:

So, the thing is, my HD was partitioned, but BootCamp partition does not show up, neither in system info nor in Disk Utility

Then i went trying to install windows, restarted and selected my external drive, but, after it boots, my mouse and keyboard does not work (despite of me putting all apple's support software inside of the flash drive). I searched for it, and some people say it's a glitch when you don't install windows on the first attempt. So, i went to my BCA to try redoing all steps.

And this is what happened:

Now, i can't install windows (because my mouse don't work) and can't put my drive back again (because it doesn't have a bootcamp partition)

What should i do?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 4, 2015 2:30 PM

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Loner T

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Nov 4, 2015 7:18 PM in response to renanguillen

Click on Continue, and it will prompt you for creating the partition. If you do not want to, or you are missing disk space, please post the output of the following OS X 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.

renanguillen Author

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Nov 4, 2015 7:27 PM in response to Loner T

Loner T

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Nov 4, 2015 7:33 PM in response to renanguillen

Notice the 'Free Space' line in your diskutil cs list output. You have about 115Gb unavailable.

Please run the following command...

diskutil cs resizeVolume B441D695-EFB5-46F9-8984-1D4D56E80D5E 0g

(the long string came from your diskutil cs list output).

If you get an error message, boot into local recovery and Repair Disk in Utilities -> Disk Utility.

renanguillen Author

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Nov 4, 2015 7:36 PM in response to Loner T

How do i boot local recv?

renanguillen Author

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Nov 4, 2015 7:45 PM in response to Loner T

Booted local recv, but again, in disk utility, no bootcamp to repair, only my 139GB macintosh HD

Loner T

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Nov 4, 2015 7:54 PM in response to renanguillen

There is no Bootcamp yet, but you want your 115Gb of Free space added to Macintosh HD, which Bootcamp will use. You are repairing the whole disk, not just a specific partition.

renanguillen Author

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Nov 4, 2015 8:05 PM in response to Loner T

there is no repair option either :/ Dude, i really appreciate you help,but today i got the worst flu ever...Besides its really late here in my country. If it won't bother you, i would like to keep up tomorrow, but tonight i really can't handle my sleepless... Sorry, gotta go. Cya tomorrow

😉

Loner T

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Nov 5, 2015 3:19 AM in response to renanguillen

When ever you feel ready to tackle this... 😉

1. From the Disk Utility UI -

2. From OS X Terminal...

diskutil repairDisk

Usage: diskutil repairDisk MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode

Repair the required layout and components of the partition map of a whole disk.

Ownership of the affected disk is required.

diskutil verifyVolume

Usage: diskutil verifyVolume MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode

Verify the file system data structures of a volume.

Ownership of the affected disk is required.

Here is an example...

diskutil verifyVolume disk1

Started file system verification on disk1 OSY-MBP13

Verifying storage system

Checking volume

disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers

disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels

Logical Volume Group 57578357-3715-48A5-AB8A-4107AF12F7FB on 1 device

disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume

Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy

Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint

Load and verify Segment Headers

Load and verify Checkpoint Payload

Load and verify Transaction Segment

Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions

Load and verify Virtual Address Table

Load and verify Segment Usage Table

Load and verify Metadata Superblock

Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees

Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume

Load and verify 11EBF920-AA4B-4EC6-AC7F-7CC70E69883C

Load and verify 8A0116D5-7E1E-44D8-B2A0-8D4E4D48298D

Load and verify Freespace Summary

Load and verify Block Accounting

Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses

Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid

Load and verify Segment Cleaning

The volume 57578357-3715-48A5-AB8A-4107AF12F7FB appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Verifying file system

Using live mode

Checking extents overflow file

Checking catalog file

Checking multi-linked files

Checking catalog hierarchy

Checking extended attributes file

Checking volume bitmap

Checking volume information

The volume OSY-MBP13 appears to be OK

File system check exit code is 0

Finished file system verification on disk1 OSY-MBP13

renanguillen Author

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Nov 5, 2015 5:57 AM in response to Loner T

I've run first aid, from the disk utility, and nothing happened, when i was on local recv, i did not had first aid option on the disk utility menu (it wasn't light). I didn't understood the terminal part... when i input those commands in the second image, it does exactly the same as yours, but, when i try to verify an specific volume, i couldn't insert my disk name (like you inserted disk 1) can you help me?

Loner T

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Nov 5, 2015 6:30 AM in response to renanguillen

Can you run Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support) and check which diskN is your internal disk using diskutil list in Terminal?

renanguillen Author

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Nov 5, 2015 6:37 AM in response to Loner T

Its number 0

Loner T

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Nov 5, 2015 7:05 AM in response to renanguillen

If you a CS volume, what is the disk number for it?

renanguillen Author

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Nov 5, 2015 12:00 PM in response to Loner T

i didn't understood this last question

Loner T

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Nov 5, 2015 12:03 PM in response to renanguillen

Run diskutil cs list and it will show you the physical disk and the logical disk. What is the diskN vale for the logical disk - Macintosh HD?

renanguillen Author

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Nov 5, 2015 12:07 PM in response to Loner T

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