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Disk utility repair made Bootcamp partition innacessable.

My MBP running 10.9.5 was having issues starting up. I booted into recovery and used Disk Utility to repair my disk. Can boot into OS X just fine now, but when I hold alt/ option to get boot options for Bootcamp, Windows partition no longer is available.


When I boot into OS X I can see my partition and access the files, I'm guessing Disk Utility removed the boot partition or some such thing.


Any help would be appreciated!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Bootcamp with Windows 7

Posted on Dec 8, 2015 10:02 AM

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Jul 3, 2016 5:08 AM in response to Loner T

You are absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for this solution! I had a very similar problem and used your solution to repair my Bootcamp partition. For step 6 I had to use "2 4" instead of "2 3", because of the way my partitions were... Maybe that should have been "2 3 4"?? But nonetheless I now can boot into either Mac or Bootcamp!


When I boot using the Alt/Option key, I have Mac, EFI boot and Windows listed. I am guessing that I should have Recovery in place of EFI, so maybe I didn't do this totally correctly. Hopefully this won't cause any probs in future, but for now it works great! :-) If anyone know if or how I should correct this, please let me know.


Oh, btw, before I did any of this I had to turn off the "rootless". So I did that, and re-enabled it after I had finished:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11



Here's what I did:


sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1


Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: protective

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present


Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.


Command (? for help): p

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 937703088 sectors, 447.1 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): E4C92C97-8BA9-4B97-82C7-E7FCCB948C40

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 937703054

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 3149 sectors (1.5 MiB)


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

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 543855399 259.1 GiB AF00 Untitled

3 543855400 545124935 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 545126400 937701375 187.2 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP


Command (? for help): r


Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o


Disk size is 937703088 sectors (447.1 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0x6C4A997C

MBR partitions:


Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code

1 1 937703087 primary 0xEE


Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h


WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,

just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will

be untouched.


Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be

added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 2 4

Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y


Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AF):

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n


Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #3)

Enter an MBR hex code (default 07):

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y


Unused partition space(s) found. Use one to protect more partitions? (Y/N): n


Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o


Disk size is 937703088 sectors (447.1 GiB)

MBR disk identifier: 0x6C4A997C

MBR partitions:


Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code

1 1 409639 primary 0xEE

2 409640 543855399 primary 0xAF

3 * 545126400 937701375 primary 0x07

Disk utility repair made Bootcamp partition innacessable.

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