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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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May 13, 2016 3:58 PM in response to Loner T

I never encrypted the partition. All I did was turn filevault on and it encrypted my whole mac drive and then I turned it off and unlocked and decrypted it. I can browse my bootcamp drive from OSX. Is there any boot files I can look for to see if something is missing maybe? I don't know. Please also note that in System Preferences, when I look at the Startup Disk icon, it shows the disk but with a "?" on it. This has been like this since the whole issue began and now there is an option to boot into Bootcamp Windows, Macintosh HD, and my external Disc...

May 13, 2016 5:53 PM in response to Loner T

It is saying resource busy.


Last login: Fri May 13 20:50:23 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 BOOTCAMP 376.3 GB disk0s4

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0s4

fdisk: /dev/disk0s4: Resource busy

Bennys-MacBook-Pro:~ djrelentt$

May 13, 2016 5:58 PM in response to Loner T

Last login: Fri May 13 20:53:41 on ttys000

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 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$

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

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