I'd heard of people having problems, but I heard of more good results than the former. Now I can't boot into Windows on restart. My BOOTCAMP folder is still there. My bootcamp disk is on "disk 0s5" but when I try to use command line to gather information about it and whatnot it says the resource is busy... I will attach photos. Any help or verdicts would be super appreciated. Thanks!
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Can you use [Help] Can't boot to windows (8.1) after resizing partition as a reference and correct your MBR using Gdisk?
Sorry, I don't understand most of that.. And I got disconnected from the steps at the booting into Local Recovery mode step. I don't know how to get to terminal from that point.
Click on Utilities -> Terminal in Local Recovery.
So i should copy the steps exactly? I don't know coding, I apologize
If you have disabled SIP (using csrutil disable) in local recovery and installed GPT Fdisk, then follow the steps in Re: [Help] Can't boot to windows (8.1) after resizing partition . The comments in parentheses are informational. You do not need to do any coding, these are commands in Gdisk utility. Even if you make a mistake, the steps are repeatable. Please post a screen shot of the the sequence of commands and the output, which will make it easier to address any issues.
I figured it out, thank you so much I really appreciate it! I do have a follow up question if possible. Is there a way to now move the partitioned space onto the windows portion of the drive?
In the same link, there is a reference to the '79G' being converted to Free Space. Once it is Free Space, you will need GParted to absorb the space, and rebuild the MBR again.
I should be using gparted from the os x disk, correct?
There are GParted 'Live' CDs. I suggest you use one of them, because you do not want GParted on a live disk, if you have an error. You should also back up OS X and Windows, before you attempt this.
I got Parted live on an iso file on a disk, but I can't figure out how to boot from the disk? I've tried holding alt and c upon startup. I am also using an external disk drive which makes it slightly more tricky.
Thanks for your help! Marked as solved. For anyone with this same issue, I would recommend instead of using gparted, get minitool partition wizard and delete the space to make in unallocated, then extend the bootcamp partition. This worked amazing!
jahcab wrote:
Thanks for your help! Marked as solved. For anyone with this same issue, I would recommend instead of using gparted, get minitool partition wizard and delete the space to make in unallocated, then extend the bootcamp partition. This worked amazing!
Do not use MInitool. It causes the GPT and MBR to be out of sync, and will cause data loss. Please post the output of
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Re-partitioned Macintosh HD and Bootcamp/Windows will not show at startup
