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I really need help! Bootcamp Partition GONE! Loner T please Help!

Hello. I Have been using Windows 7 with Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro Late 2013 15 inch Retina 16GB 2.6GHz Core i7 since I bought the computer brand new. I turned on my mac the other day and out of nowhere, the Windows Partition was gone. The only thing that I did do differently was that I turned on FileVault and encrypted my system. I am wondering if it affected my partition because of that? I am not sure. I am nervous, though because I have all of my really important work files on the partition and I haven't been able to access them at all.

Everything I tried to do so far:

I tried plugging my MBP into my iMac and booting it in target disk mode and I couldn't find any files from the Windows partition. For some odd reason the bootcamp partition is greyed out in Disk Utilities and it is now called "disk0s4."

I have a Windows 7 disk that I was able to boot from and it was about to install Windows but I was afraid that it was going to overwrite everything so I canceled it.

When I boot my MBP now and hold alt, like I used to always have to do to get into Windows, it shows 2 "Macintosh HDs" whereas it used to show one "Macintosh HD" one "Recovery Drive" and one "Windows" drive. (I am guessing that by encrypting the drive it may have messed up the naming of the voumes... Not sure)

I have turned off FileVault, unlocked, and decrypted the system to see if it would help but no luck.

I tried hitting verify disk and then repair disk and nothing worked.

I also tried to hit mount disk and that did nothing.

Is there any way I can access the files on the partition if there is no possible way to install windows 7 again without overwriting everything?

To anyone who helps answer this, thank you in advance. I am so stuck!!!

I have been reading the forums and I saw that "Loner T" asked someone to type in these commands in terminal:

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Check my terminal results below: I also attached the text file of the terminal session.

Last login: Fri May 6 06:40:05 on ttys000

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 623.4 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 202.0 GB disk0s4

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000555581440; sectorsize=512; blocks=1954210120

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1954210119

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 1217596352 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1218005992 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1219275528 340403448

1559678976 394530816 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1954209792 295

1954210087 32 Sec GPT table

1954210119 1 Sec GPT header

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121643/255/63 [1954210120 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 1217596352] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1218005992 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1559678976 - 394530816] Win95 FAT32L

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Late 2013 2.6GHz Core i7 Processor

Posted on May 6, 2016 3:50 AM

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djrelentt Author

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May 9, 2016 12:17 PM in response to Loner T

Last login: Mon May 9 14:47:50 on ttys000

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

This is strange. These are the results when no other drives are plugged in. If I plug in an external drive, this shows:

Last login: Mon May 9 14:49:19 on ttys001

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=2000398934016; sectorsize=512; blocks=3907029168

gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR at sector 0

start size index contents

0 1 MBR

1 63

64 3907024000 1 MBR part 175

3907024064 5104

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*1: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 64 - 3907024000] HFS+

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

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------

Check out these screenshots of Disk Utility this may help you:

Main drive info.

Mac side of the Partition

Bootcamp...

Also remember I am on Mavericks 10.9.5.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Being that disk0 didn't show up, I tried disk1,2,3, & 4:

Last login: Mon May 9 14:59:59 on ttys000

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=1000555581440; sectorsize=512; blocks=1954210120

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1954210119

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 1217596352 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1218005992 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1219275528 1272

1219276800 734932992 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1954209792 295

1954210087 32 Sec GPT table

1954210119 1 Sec GPT header

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 121643/255/63 [1954210120 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 1217596352] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1218005992 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk2 <-----------------------------------------disk2

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk2': No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk3 <-----------------------------------------disk2

gpt show: /dev/disk3: mediasize=18118656; sectorsize=512; blocks=35388

gpt show: /dev/disk3: MBR not found at sector 0

start size index contents

0 35388

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk3

Disk: /dev/disk3 geometry: 140/4/63 [35388 sectors]

Signature: 0x0

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

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

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk4

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk4': No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: No such file or directory

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

Loner T

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May 9, 2016 12:39 PM in response to djrelentt

Disk1 is the correct physical disk. Is there any external storage connected to the Mac? Please post the output of

diskutil list

djrelentt Author

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May 9, 2016 2:17 PM in response to Loner T

There wasn't before, no. Right now there is one 2TB drive plugged in.

logout

[Process completed]

[Restored]

Last login: Mon May 9 15:00:50 on ttys000

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0

1: Apple_HFS MacBook Backup 2TB 2.0 TB disk0s1

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 623.4 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 376.3 GB disk1s4

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *18.1 MB disk3

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk3s1

2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 18.1 MB disk3s2

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

Loner T

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May 9, 2016 3:14 PM in response to djrelentt

Before you start the Windows Startup Repair, disconnect the 2TB external disk. Use the Windows installer to run a Repair.

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 12:43 AM in response to Loner T

Hello Loner T,

I diconnected the 2TB external drive and tried booting from the Windows 7 Disk I have. It takes me to the blue screen with the windows symbol and stays on that screen forever. The cd stops spinning and then my fan starts spinning so fast and so loud. I tried another windows cd and it didn't work either. There is another option to boot EFI I forget exactly what it said but if I hold ALT while booting I can either boot from Mac HD, Windows CD or EFI boot, which I don't know what that is.

What should I try next?

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 11:21 AM in response to Loner T

***UPDATE***

I got the Repair Window to finish but it didn't fix boot camp. I still can't boot into Bootcamp. WHen I restart my computer and hold ALT, only the Mac drives show, that's it. I tried "refreshing" the system on the windows boot CD, but it says my Bootcamp partition is LOCKED... I have Paragan installed and working properly. The drive is now Read/Write enabled. I just do not know if because it is locked, this is why I can't REPAIR the startup issue?

Note: On the "Install Windows" page, it says Repair Windows on the bottom left, I clicked that, then clicked advanced, and thats where it says repair startup problem or whatever it said. Is that the repair I should have been trying to run?

Loner T

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May 13, 2016 12:21 PM in response to djrelentt

Paragon will cause more problems than it can solve. It conflicts with Apple drivers.

In Repair Console for Windows, can you get to a command prompt? If yes, you need clear read-only attributes using diskpart commands within the Repair Console. Paragon cannot do that. Please see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(v=ws.10).aspx and the attribute command.

Once you have cleared the read-only attribute, please use https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392 and boootrec.exe for correct specific issues. You must be in the C: disk to be able to fix MBR. If you need to /rebuildBCD, please ensure you are in the correct folder and verify that you can see the BCD file before you backup and repair.

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Loner T

I just tried doing what you said. I cannot focus on the partition to clear the read-only attributes. I saw the volumes and disks and there is no C: disk... Even if I use the file explorer while using this windows disk, it shows all of my files gone. I shut it off and went back into Mac, and all of the files are fine, in the BootCamp drive, which I can access. So strange...

I think when I encrypted this whole drive, FileVault locked this partition. I don't know what to do.

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 1:39 PM in response to Loner T

I have figured it out. I am running the DiskPart command and I am now looking at the 3 partitions, which are on my drive. I am still unsure on how to clear read-only attributes. Am I trying to clear those attributes on the partition alone or the entire disk? I don't ever use the command prompt on windows so I have to be careful.

Loner T

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May 13, 2016 1:56 PM in response to djrelentt

If you type diskpart.exe, you will be in the diskpart utility. Once at the prompt, check which volume has the C: letter assigned. You may need to select disk 0 in diskpart.

attributes volume clear readonly YourVolumeNameHere

Now, you can go to C: and then run X:bootrec.exe (X: is your boot media. Please verify that is indeed X:)

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 2:33 PM in response to Loner T

I got to where I needed to be. But, see the image below. When I put in the command, it is saying Virtual Disk Service error: The operation is not supported on removable media. I don't get it. I also don't get why this picture came out sideways. Sorry, man.

Loner T

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May 13, 2016 2:41 PM in response to djrelentt

Is C: volume 1? Try list volume command first. Please see http://imgur.com/AjWUmx2 as an example.

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 2:40 PM in response to Loner T

Yes Volume 1 is C: and it is saying it is empty... 0 Is the Windows CD.

Loner T

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May 13, 2016 2:47 PM in response to djrelentt

Can you check the IMGUR link in the previous post? Notice you have 350GB 'Free' under disk0. Can you boot back into OSX? We may need to create an MBR to make this work.

djrelentt Author

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May 13, 2016 2:57 PM in response to Loner T

I looked at the IMGUR post and I did the exact thing and this is what it shows... Yes I will reboot into OSX now.

I really need help! Bootcamp Partition GONE! Loner T please Help!