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Q: Bootcamp Disappeared After new iOS Update

Just come to use Windows again, and it seems that the boot partition has disappeared after updating to the latest iOS.

 

Jamess-MBP:~ jamessimpson$ 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_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            210.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                20.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +209.8 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 99A6AC9D-698D-4CD2-8130-BE4566B3CFCD
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
Jamess-MBP:~ jamessimpson$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0s4
Disk: /dev/disk0s4 geometry: 2431/255/63 [39061504 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 4F  335  10   2 -  327  84  13 [1936269394 - 1836016416] QNX 4.2 Ter 
 2: 73  371 114  37 -  256 101  36 [1917848077 -  544437093] <Unknown ID>
 3: 2B  364 116  50 -  372  65  44 [1818575915 -  544175136] <Unknown ID>
 4: 61  372 101  51 -  269 114  52 [2844524554 -      54974] SpeedStor   
Jamess-MBP:~ jamessimpson$ sudo gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0s4
gpt show: /dev/disk0s4: mediasize=19999490048; sectorsize=512; blocks=39061504
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0s4': Undefined error: 0
Jamess-MBP:~ jamessimpson$ sudo gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      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  410429680      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  410839320    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  412108856   39063496         
  451172352   39061504      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  490233856        863         
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 11:27 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 7, 2016 4:53 PM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 7, 2016 4:53 PM in response to JamesJamz

    You have a MBR which is incorrect, you have a large gap (20GB). Can you provide a bit more detail on how the MBR was manipulated?

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 8, 2016 12:54 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 8, 2016 12:54 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T,

     

    I'm not sure what has happened - I had a 20gb partition for Windows, it was installed and working correctly, but after the update to El Capitan, it just disappeared and I am no longer able to see the boot partition for windows when rebooting.

     

    I can see it grayed out in disk management on the device, but something has gone wrong somewhere and unsure how to fix it - I cannot even remove the partition via BootCamp.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 8, 2016 5:23 AM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 8, 2016 5:23 AM in response to JamesJamz

    Was your Windows partition resized in the past before you upgraded to El Capitan?

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 8, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 8, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Loner T

    I was planning on doing it, but never got round to doing it. Would it be best to merge the partition and start again?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 8, 2016 5:19 PM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 8, 2016 5:19 PM in response to JamesJamz

    Let us check if there is possible recovery path. Please post the output of

     

    sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 9, 2016 1:29 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 9, 2016 1:29 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T, The output as requested:

     

    00000000  eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20  20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00  |.R.NTFS    .....|
    00000010  00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00  3f 00 ff 00 00 58 e4 1a  |........?....X..|
    00000020  00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00  ff 07 54 02 00 00 00 00  |..........T.....|
    00000030  00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00  02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
    00000040  f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  34 79 90 70 aa 90 70 b0  |........4y.p..p.|
    00000050  00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e  d0 bc 00 7c fb 68 c0 07  |.....3.....|.h..|
    00000060  1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16  0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e  |..hf......f.>..N|
    00000070  54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb  aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb  |TFSu..A..U..r...|
    00000080  55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00  75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec  |U.u.....u.......|
    00000090  18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16  0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13  |.h...H..........|
    000000a0  9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72  e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3  |.....X.r.;...u..|
    000000b0  0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e  5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8  |........Z3... +.|
    000000c0  66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f  00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8  |f...............|
    000000d0  4b 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00  bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d  |K.+.w......f#.u-|
    000000e0  66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75  24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16  |f..TCPAu$....r..|
    000000f0  68 07 bb 16 68 70 0e 16  68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66  |h...hp..h..fSfSf|
    00000100  55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66  61 0e 07 cd 1a 33 c0 bf  |U...h..fa....3..|
    00000110  28 10 b9 d8 0f fc f3 aa  e9 5f 01 90 90 66 60 1e  |(........_...f`.|
    00000120  06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06  1c 00 1e 66 68 00 00 00  |.f...f.....fh...|
    00000130  00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00  68 10 00 b4 42 8a 16 0e  |.fP.Sh..h...B...|
    00000140  00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66  59 5b 5a 66 59 66 59 1f  |.......fY[ZfYfY.|
    00000150  0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11  00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff  |....f...........|
    00000160  0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66  61 c3 a0 f8 01 e8 09 00  |...u...fa.......|
    00000170  a0 fb 01 e8 03 00 f4 eb  fd b4 01 8b f0 ac 3c 00  |..............<.|
    00000180  74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd  10 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20  |t.............A |
    00000190  64 69 73 6b 20 72 65 61  64 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20  |disk read error |
    000001a0  6f 63 63 75 72 72 65 64  00 0d 0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d  |occurred...BOOTM|
    000001b0  47 52 20 69 73 20 6d 69  73 73 69 6e 67 00 0d 0a  |GR is missing...|
    000001c0  42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 20  69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 72  |BOOTMGR is compr|
    000001d0  65 73 73 65 64 00 0d 0a  50 72 65 73 73 20 43 74  |essed...Press Ct|
    000001e0  72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b 44  65 6c 20 74 6f 20 72 65  |rl+Alt+Del to re|
    000001f0  73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00  8c a9 be d6 00 00 55 aa  |start.........U.|
    00000200
    
  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 9, 2016 6:44 AM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 9, 2016 6:44 AM in response to JamesJamz

    The header looks clean. Can you see files in the Bootcamp volume from the Finder on the OSX side? I expect a no.

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 9, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 9, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T,

     

    There is no bootcamp volume in Finder - also when I visit System Preferences > Startup Disk, bootcamp does not appear there (Just says Macintosh HD OS X, 10.11).

     

    Screen Shot 2016-03-09 at 14.46.44.png

     

    Also when visiting bootcamp assistant > Remove windows 7 or later version, it doesn't show the partition either

    Screen Shot 2016-03-09 at 14.47.35.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 9, 2016 11:43 AM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 9, 2016 11:43 AM in response to JamesJamz

    The first screen is missing Windows due to the junk MBR (fdisk output) which is not recognized.

     

    This second screen shows the state after Windows will be removed. If you notice the size of 228GB is rounded equivalent of the existing 20GB Windows and the 209GB OSX. This will also add the free space back.

     

    If you do not need the current Windows installation, continue the flow on the second screen and it will be removed and the MBR will be wiped.

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 10, 2016 12:49 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 10, 2016 12:49 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T,

     

    I just need Windows working again, but cannot get it working for the life of me. I have even tried removing the partition back to nothing so I can re-install it again, but the Bootcamp "restore disk to a single image" does not work and errors out before putting the partition back into a single disk.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 10, 2016 4:56 AM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 10, 2016 4:56 AM in response to JamesJamz

    If you are find with the 20GB gap, try the following steps...

     

    A. We need to disable SIP.

     

    1. Boot into Local Recovery (Command+R).

    2. Start Utilities -> Terminal.

    3. Type csrutil disable in Terminal and press Enter/Return.

    4. Type csrutil status.

    5. Boot normally, and type csrutil status to confirm that all individual entries are still disabled.

     

    B.  Install GPT Fdisk (aka Gdisk) from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/. Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR. Use defaults for other questions (like partition codes). The only values that need modifications are the Boot flags and step 10. Accept all other defaults that Gdisk offers. Please see the sample Q&A as an example. These steps can be repeated if you make a mistake before you get to Step 12, otherwise start from Step 1 for these steps. Step 6 has numbers which are typed with a space between the numbers. Please see the sample Q&A before you execute these steps.

    1. Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
    2. P  (Print list of parts)
    3. R  (Recover)
    4. O (print current Hybrid MBR)
    5. H (chooses Hybrid)
    6. Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
    7. Y  (Good for GRUB question)
    8. N  (part 2 boot flag)
    9. N  (part 3 boot flag)
    10. Y  (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)
    11. O  (print current Hybrid MBR)
    12. W (Write the new MBR)
    13. Y (Yes! write the new MBR)
    14. Reboot

     

    Here is sample Q&A for this section. Please notice the Press Enter/Return.

     

    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): Press Enter/Return

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

     

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

    Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): Press Enter/Return

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

     

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

    Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): Press Enter/Return

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

     

    Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?

    Test 2 - Can you see files in Bootcamp Volume?

    Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?

    Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 10, 2016 6:16 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 10, 2016 6:16 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T,

     

    I have tried this previously from a different post, but I have just done it again, but still does not show in finder, although the boot is there, but fails to start (just blank screen).

     

    Do you think i'll have to remove the partition and start again? I can boot from USB to windows 7 install (although the mouse or keyboard do not work when I try that).

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Mar 10, 2016 6:25 AM in response to JamesJamz
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    Mar 10, 2016 6:25 AM in response to JamesJamz

    If you have tried this before and the current MBR is garbage, it leads me to conclude that either these steps were incorrectly executed, or something was missed in the last attempt.

     

    The gap of 20GB is where your lost NTFS header is most likely to be, which requires a Testdisk scan. Please see El Capitan has deleted my bootcamp windows partition as an example. If you do not want to use Testdisk, you still need to corrected MBR for BCA to be able to remove the current partition.

     

    The other option is to create a Time Machine backup of OS X. boot into Internet Recovery, wipe you internal disk, restore your TM OS X backup and re-try your Windows installation.

  • by JamesJamz,

    JamesJamz JamesJamz Mar 10, 2016 9:11 AM in response to Loner T
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    Mar 10, 2016 9:11 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T,

     

    How would I do a Testdisk scan? That post you linked is what I did previously, I will do it again now and see what happens.

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