BootCamp drive not showing up in startup disk.

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BootCamp drive not showing up in startup disk.

Just today i noticed that my bootcamp drive is not showing in startup disk in system preference. I am using 10.11 El Capitan. However, I have been able to boot to both of the OS's pressing the 'option' key. And also disk utility is not showing the bootcamp partition. But in finder, it shows the partition. When I try the disk utility in recovery mode, there it shows the bootcamp partition. But not in OS X.

And at last, when i try ' get info' guess what: it shows Last Opened: January 1 1970, at 5:30 am. which is never true.

Is this OS X issue, How do I fix it?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 11:48 AM

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Pmintz25

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Feb 24, 2016 9:52 AM in response to stormxeron

You could try to run First Aid using Disk Utility. I would boot to the Recovery drive to do this.

Restart the computer and hold Command-R

Also, after you have repaired the disk in the Recovery drive, quit Disk Utility, then quit OS X Utilities and select "Choose Startup Disk." See if the Windows partition shows up here.

Best of luck

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stormxeron Author

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Feb 23, 2016 12:03 PM in response to Pmintz25

When I select the BootCamp partition in recovery mode, the first aid option grey's out. So, I cannot first aid it. Also, When I choose startup disk in recovery mode, bootcamp shows up there. But when I return to OS X, it wont show there. Thanks for the quick response.

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Pmintz25

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Feb 24, 2016 9:52 AM in response to stormxeron

See if you can use First Aid on the entire hard drive (the drive at the top, not indented)

Also, if you select the startup disk in Recovery, does it boot you to Windows or back into Mac OS X?

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Loner T

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Feb 23, 2016 8:00 PM in response to stormxeron

Do you have any third-party NTFS software like Tuxera, Paragon, MacDrive, NTFS-3g, etc.?

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stormxeron Author

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Feb 23, 2016 8:01 PM in response to Pmintz25

Well the first aid went without a issue. When i select windows, it boots me to windows and when i select OS X it boots me to OS x. Oh I see, you mean I can change the startup disk from recovery. I can also change the startup disk from windows bootcamp control panel but then i cannot change in os x. Anyways thanks!🙂

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stormxeron Author

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Feb 23, 2016 8:05 PM in response to Loner T

yes i have, paragon-NTFS. Is this causing all the issues? Will reinstalling the software fix the issue?

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Loner T

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Feb 24, 2016 5:24 AM in response to stormxeron

Uninstall Paragon temporarily, and ensure that the KEXTs (Kernel Extensions) that it installs are removed. Apple Startup Disk will refuse to show any NTFS partition(s) that it does not control. This is documented in http://kb_wp.paragon-software.com/article/204 . If you are on El Capitan, there may be additional issues. I suggest creating a Tech Support request for Paragon folks.

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stormxeron Author

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Feb 24, 2016 9:26 AM in response to Loner T

Uninstalling the software works and disk utility now shows the drive.

My another question: are you able to repair bootcamp via disk utility or not?

Another issue is that my last opened date for /Volumes/BOOTCAMP is 1 january 1970, any idea how to modify it? I have posted another discussion about this issue:

BOOTCAMP Change Last Opened Date.

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Loner T

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Feb 24, 2016 10:00 AM in response to stormxeron

stormxeron wrote:

My another question: are you able to repair bootcamp via disk utility or not?

You cannot use DU to repair NTFS file systems.

stormxeron wrote:

Another issue is that my last opened date for /Volumes/BOOTCAMP is 1 january 1970, any idea how to modify it? I have posted another discussion about this issue:

BOOTCAMP Change Last Opened Date.

See comment on that discussion.

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