Q: Bootcamp Partition missing and doesn't show up in Termainal
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
Running 10.10.5
I started the process of installing windows yesterday but ran into a few issues (Missing DVD drivers warning which was actually a using a Flash drive thats too big/wrong file type) Anyway, my various attempts resulted in the 50GB of space I partitioned using BCA to go missing. I have backed up using time machine and am ready to do a total restore at this point but I am worried because the 50GB is not even showing up in Termainal when I search for it. All the other methods I have read on here over the last few hours have been people whose partition does show up but just needs to be repaired using fdisk or whatever.
Im not to interested in messing around too much I just want to get the thing started restoring so I can start from scratch with the windows install. I need to know if after doing a full wipe of my drive im going to be still missing that 50GB
Here is a list of my Terminal outputs:
MY-MacBook-Pro:~ myname$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 390899288 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
391308928 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
392578464 97656255
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
MY-MacBook-Pro:~ myname$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 490234751] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
MY-Pro:~ myname$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 200.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *199.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
31C1D849-83DD-46DD-A44A-BD811B7FD3BF
Unencrypted
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Dec 11, 2015 2:53 PM
This line represents Free Space.
392578464 97656255
97656255 * 512 / (1000 * 1000* 1000) = 50GB or
97656255 * 512 / (1024 * 1024 * 1024) = 46.5 GiB
My recommendation is
1. Back up OSX using Time Machine - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support . The disks you can use with TM are Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support .
2. Boot into Internet Recovery - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support (Command+Opt+R).
3. Erase your internal disks. Use Utilities -> Disk Utility to erase your internal disks. If that does not work, we can manually rebuild the disks.
4. Restore OSX using links in Step 1.
5. Run SMC/NVRAM Reset without any other external storage attached.
6. Run BC Assistant and install Windows.
Posted on Dec 11, 2015 8:16 PM