jlevr
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Q: Bootcamp no longer working after creating third partition

Hey all,

 

I 'm running osx 10.9.5 on a 2012 macbook pro with windows 7 on bootcamp. The person who made the initial bootcamp partition set it at 79gb, which is too small for my uses, so I made a 45gb FAT32 partition in the hopes that I could write files to that disk from windows.
I learned after making the partition that windows was no longer appearing at startup (w/ alt pressed) and when I tried to boot from system preferences, windows popped up stating that it had no disk.

 

I followed the instructions (probably not the smartest idea) from this thread: Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition which did bring the windows option back to my w/alt startup, but did not get windows to actually start up (leaving me at the same screen asking me to put in a disk and press any key to start).

 

here's my terminal after following the instructions from LonerT.

 

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Any help is much appreciated  (I don't have access to the folks who set up bootcamp for me anymore)!

Thanks

Posted on Apr 6, 2016 8:05 PM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 7, 2016 6:06 AM in response to jlevr
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    Apr 7, 2016 6:06 AM in response to jlevr

    You will need a new Hybrid MBR, if you plan to keep the shared partition. Can you follow [Help] Can't boot to windows (8.1) after resizing partition and re-create the Hybrid MBR? If you have questions after reading the linked discussions, please ask.

  • by jlevr,

    jlevr jlevr Apr 7, 2016 7:43 PM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 7, 2016 7:43 PM in response to Loner T

    Hey,

     

    Thanks so much for the reply! I realized going through the a. step of your instructions that my computers going into internet recovery every time I load up either with command+R or by clicking on recovery after booting up with alt. I just checked to make sure that I have a recovery (I do), but I'm guessing it's been corrupted. Do you have any links to possible fixes for the recovery? I just did a search and didn't find anything useful.

     

    Levr:~ jlevra$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            374.5 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:       Microsoft Basic Data SHARED                  45.0 GB    disk0s4

       5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                79.8 GB    disk0s5

    Levr:~ jlevra$

     

    Thanks

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 7, 2016 7:58 PM in response to jlevr
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    Apr 7, 2016 7:58 PM in response to jlevr

    Re-installing OSX will rebuild recovery. One option you may want to consider is How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support .  You can boot from this external OS X installation and change SIP. Please be aware that it can provide the version of OS X that originally shipped, rather than the current version. You should upgrade the external disk OS X to the same version as your internal disk version.