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Q: BOOTCAMP partition boot problems

Hi, I have seen a few posts that are very similar to mine, but I cannot seem to get to the bottom of this issue. Here is the background on what happened:

 

I was running El Capitan on a single OS X partition and decided to run Boot Camp Assistant and install Windows 10 on a new partition. This worked perfectly and I was using Windows and booting back and forth. I then decided that I would like to create a new partition to easily share files between the 2 OS's using a Fat-32 file system so that both OS's could have read/write access. I did this with Disk Utility on the Mac side and everything seemed to go smoothly. Also, I did not touch my BOOTCAMP partition, but took all the space for the new partition from the Mac side. Everything seemed fine.....until I tried to boot back into BOOTCAMP. Now this partition is not recognized as bootable, though it is accessible from within the Mac side and everything seems in tact.

 

I ran the diskutil list command and here is the output:

 

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            361.5 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

   4:                  Apple_HFS SHARED                  22.7 GB    disk0s4

   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                115.0 GB   disk0s5

Tylers-MacBook-Pro-3:~ tylerdouglas$ diskutil info disk0s5

   Device Identifier:        disk0s5

   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s5

   Whole:                    No

   Part of Whole:            disk0

   Device / Media Name:      BOOTCAMP

 

   Volume Name:              BOOTCAMP

 

   Mounted:                  Yes

   Mount Point:              /Volumes/BOOTCAMP

 

   File System Personality:  NTFS

   Type (Bundle):            ntfs

   Name (User Visible):      Windows NT File System (NTFS)

 

   Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data

   OS Can Be Installed:      No

   Media Type:               Generic

   Protocol:                 SATA

   SMART Status:             Verified

   Volume UUID:              1EF1A5FC-BEBE-4528-A0A2-6755D96E1AB0

   Disk / Partition UUID:    0F83EFE3-3E4B-4EAA-8C08-0590F3C60EAA

 

   Total Size:               115.0 GB (114999427072 Bytes) (exactly 224608256 512-Byte-Units)

   Volume Free Space:        72.5 GB (72523272192 Bytes) (exactly 141647016 512-Byte-Units)

   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

 

   Read-Only Media:          No

   Read-Only Volume:         Yes

 

   Device Location:          Internal

   Removable Media:          No

 

   Solid State:              Yes



My theory was that because the BOOTCAMP partition moved from 4 to 5, this somehow confused things. I decided that I didn't care any more about having the shared partition, so I erased it. I then tried to delete this partition, but I am unable to do this using Disk Utility in regular or recovery mode. I have tried unmounting and then deleting in both modes. I have scoured the the internet looking for a solution and I am completely stuck. This seems like it should be a super simple fix, but it's frustrating that I can't figure it out. I don't think I have damaged or corrupted anything and I just need to be able to boot into Bootcamp.


PLEASE HELP!!!


Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Mar 15, 2016 9:26 PM

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