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Q: Can't access windwos 7 partition!

Hello;

 

Today I tried to extend the partition windows 7 in my mac-book air (El Capitan), so i opened disk utility, i reduced the Macintosh HD, and I thought this decrements will be added automatically to windows partition, unfortunately, it created a new partition! I tried to delete it, I couldn't.  I clicked this partition, then I erased it, but the partition tab is greyed! and can't access at all. Any way when I restart the mac, to access the windows, I found no windows drive in the list of choice, and only Macintosh HD and the recovery drive are in the list of choice!

 

It will be highly appreciated if you can help me to delete the extra partition I wrongly made, increase the windows size, and get my windows back

 

Sincerely Yours

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 5, 2015 4:31 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 17, 2015 8:44 PM in response to tefosat
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    Nov 17, 2015 8:44 PM in response to tefosat

    It may be because your OS X disk is a CoreStorage volume, which is not readable in Windows. Post the output of diskutil cs list from OS X Terminal.

  • by tefosat,

    tefosat tefosat Nov 17, 2015 11:06 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 17, 2015 11:06 PM in response to Loner T

    Dear Loner;

     

    Please check it;

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    Loner T Loner T Nov 18, 2015 3:46 AM in response to tefosat
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    Nov 18, 2015 3:46 AM in response to tefosat

    From the Windows side, can you look at Administrative Tools and post a screen shot of your disks. It should look similar to this.

     

    W8.1-DiskManagement-AfterExternalDisk.PNG

  • by tefosat,

    tefosat tefosat Nov 19, 2015 7:43 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 19, 2015 7:43 PM in response to Loner T

    Dear Loner;

     

    Sorry for my late to reply, here is the post

    the first one is the mac partition, the second one I don't know what is this and don't even know where is this located, the third one is the one I mistakenly created, and the forth one is the windows partition.

     

    and this is from mac

     

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 19, 2015 8:03 PM in response to tefosat
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    Nov 19, 2015 8:03 PM in response to tefosat

    Your GPT is

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

         409640  391138096      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      391547736    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      392817272   18757000      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      411574272     262144        

      411836416   78397440      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

     

    When we created your MBR we used 3 4 5, so the Windows disk management sees

     

    GPT1 = MBR1 (EFI)

    GPT2+3= MBR2 (OSX + Recovery HD).

    GPT4 = MBR3

    GPT5 = MBR4

     

    We made MBR4/GPT5 bootable - this is C:, MBR3 (9GB) = D:.

     

    You cannot see MBR2, because it a combination of two different file systems which the Windows HFS driver does not understand.

  • by tefosat,

    tefosat tefosat Nov 19, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 19, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Loner T

    So, is there anyway to fix that?!

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 19, 2015 8:10 PM in response to tefosat
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    Nov 19, 2015 8:10 PM in response to tefosat

    Do you need 'Dr Tefo' partition?

  • by tefosat,

    tefosat tefosat Nov 19, 2015 8:15 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 19, 2015 8:15 PM in response to Loner T

    No I don't need it, and I wish to add its size to windows partition

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