Can't boot into windows after resizing partitions

i was able to successfully use Paragon's Hard Disk Manager Preview for Mac to resize and move partitions seamlessly and it works very well, no issues at all booting into either OS afterward.

i took away 15GB of space from windows, added 10GB to os10 and was left with 5 free (unallocated, unpartitioned).

i made the mistake of booting into windows and using disk management to try to format the unallocated space, the only options available for it was fat32 and ntfs, i chose fat32. reason why it was a mistake is because it destroyed the gpt. so windows wouldnt start and no other os was available from startup options during bootup.

luckily i loaded up clonezilla and restored the entire disk from the image i created yesterday. everything restored exactly in the state it was yesterday.

i then went back into HDM to do this one more time. i am stopping at this point until i can figure out a good way to safely make an extFAT partition using diskutil .... if possible. unfortunately HDM does not have the options of creating a new partition in the free space, I'm not sure why. The other partitions such as os10 and windows each had several operations available including resize, check filesystem, move, delete, etc.

here is a snap shop of my configuration after i did these operations (HDM recovery view):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxFPkx-J8h1FZWFDaGtqampiVGRyLWVtaUxvcGJycG1RTG pR

here is a thread i found where someone successfully did what i am trying to do, but the person was willing to wipe the drive and create new partitions first, then install os10 and windows (step 3 in the post marked 'solved'). so the extFAT partition was added before os10 and windows was installed:

Re: Almost There with three partitions: OSX, Data, Win8.1

so i am currently at this state, with 5GB unclaimed on the drive .... is it at all possible to format this unallocated space using extFAT using diskutil and keep the other partitions and the gpt intact ?

sakman74 wrote:

so i am currently at this state, with 5GB unclaimed on the drive .... is it at all possible to format this unallocated space using extFAT using diskutil and keep the other partitions and the gpt intact ?

Yes. Can you post the output of diskutil list and I can provide the exact command you need? Be aware that there are some horror stories with Paragon HDM. They are searchable on ASC.

ok, will run that this eve and post the output here.

to be sure: you want the output of the following:

list

verifyDisk (entire disk)

verifyVolume (each volume)

anything else you would want to see ?

i did some searching before i dl'd hdm, and it seems it got very good reviews from places like pcmag and some other well known tech sites.

i did not pay for the preview, it is free to use for 60 days, so i have some time to sit on it. overall though it's done the resizing and moving operations without any hiccups, so i was impressed.

i bet that diskutil can do everything i did with hdm, maybe some day ill have time to learn the techniques ...

Just diskutil list should work.

The one area where I have seen most complaints are related to restores using backups created by HDM. You should test that, and save CloneZilla copies before using the restore.

Loner T,

I gathered everything I could think of that might help you .... see below.

I noticed that gdisk output is in Mebibytes/Gibibytes rather than Megabytes/Gigabytes, seems odd that gdisk uses the same units as Windows.

diskutil output:

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 70.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 175.0 GB disk0s4

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ diskutil verifyDisk disk0

Started partition map verification on disk0

Checking prerequisites

Checking the partition list

Checking the partition map size

Checking for an EFI system partition

Checking the EFI system partition's size

Checking the EFI system partition's file system

Checking the EFI system partition's folder content

Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces

Checking booter partitions

Checking booter partition disk0s3

Verifying file system

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume

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 Recovery HD appears to be OK

File system check exit code is 0

Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions

The partition map appears to be OK

Finished partition map verification on disk0

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ diskutil verifyVolume disk0s1

Started file system verification on disk0s1 EFI

Verifying file system

** /dev/rdisk0s1

** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT

** Phase 2 - Checking Directories

** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters

22 files, 177269 KiB free (354539 clusters)

File system check exit code is 0

Finished file system verification on disk0s1 EFI

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ diskutil verifyVolume disk0s2

Started file system verification on disk0s2 Macintosh HD

Verifying file system

Using live mode

Performing live verification

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume

Checking extents overflow file

Checking catalog hierarchy

Checking extended attributes file

Checking volume information

File system check exit code is 0

Finished file system verification on disk0s2 Macintosh HD

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ diskutil verifyVolume disk0s3

Started file system verification on disk0s3 Recovery HD

Verifying file system

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume

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 Recovery HD appears to be OK

File system check exit code is 0

Finished file system verification on disk0s3 Recovery HD

gdisk output:

Admins-MacBook-Pro:~ adminuser$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

NOTE: Write test failed with error number 1. It will be impossible to save

changes to this disk's partition table!

You may need to deactivate System Integrity Protection to use this program. See

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11

for more information.

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): v

No problems found. 10034245 free sectors (4.8 GiB) available in 3

segments, the largest of which is 10034015 (4.8 GiB) in size.

Command (? for help): r

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o

Disk size is 490234752 sectors (233.8 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0xBBB3488A

MBR partitions:

Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code

1 1 409639 primary 0xEE

2 409640 137129983 primary 0xAF

3 137129984 138399519 primary 0xAB

4 * 138399744 480200703 primary 0x07

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): m

Command (? for help): p

Disk /dev/disk0: 490234752 sectors, 233.8 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 0BAF7312-19DB-43E6-A018-9764A4932C1C

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 490234718

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 10034245 sectors (4.8 GiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 137129983 65.2 GiB AF00 Customer

3 137129984 138399519 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 138399744 480200703 163.0 GiB 0700 Basic data partition

Can you post the output of

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

yep:

Admins-MBP:~ adminuser$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752

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 490234751

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 136720344 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

137129984 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

138399520 224

138399744 341800960 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

480200704 10034015

490234719 32 Sec GPT table

490234751 1 Sec GPT header

Strange that I did not see a notification for this reply. Does DU let you see the Free Space after your Bootcamp partition?

is there a du or gedit command that will let me see the free unallocated space ?

The space after GPT4 is free space. Can you turn on Disk Utility Debug?

i tried issuing the following command to turn on debug mode for DU, but when I list I don't see the unallocated space. diskutil output is the same as before.

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

btw ... i am running diskutil from terminal, so that i can copy and paste the output to this thread.

this is the most detail i can get from Paragon Hard Disk Manager for the free space I created:

Partition Number: 4

Disk Number: 0

Name: Free

Size: 5.14 GB (5137415680 Bytes)

Disk Sector Size: 512 (0x200)

First Sector: 0x000000001C9F4800

Last Sector: 0x000000001D38635E

Do you see any other hidden partitions? For example, the EFI partition in DU UI?

sakman74 wrote:

this is the most detail i can get from Paragon Hard Disk Manager for the free space I created:

Partition Number: 4

Disk Number: 0

Name: Free

Size: 5.14 GB (5137415680 Bytes)

Disk Sector Size: 512 (0x200)

First Sector: 0x000000001C9F4800

Last Sector: 0x000000001D38635E

First sector decimal value is 480200704, last sector is 490234718. This matches your GPT Free Space as shown in the GPT output. DU does not draw to scale. Can you scroll down to the bottom of the partition display in DU UI and check?

sorry, does DU UI mean Disk Utility User Interface ? As in the "app" which is in the Utilities folder ?

when I do a first aid on disk0 from within this "app" no such output related to each partitions sector info shows up.

also, it doesn't look like debug mode works ... because when i run disk utility "app" the "Debug" drop down menu is not available.