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Windows 10 Anniversary + Boot Camp = no longer mounting Mac partition

I have a Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) with Mac OS El Capitan, dual-booting with Windows 10 with Boot Camp installed. Everything was working fine until I installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update today; now Windows no longer mounts the Mac partition. I successfully reinstalled the latest Boot Camp drivers, but Windows still won't show me the Mac partition. (Booting into Mac OS works fine.)


Is anyone else seeing this problem? Anyone know of a solution or workaround?

Posted on Aug 3, 2016 6:12 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2017 5:27 AM

Apple HFS+ drivers themselves work fine after updating to the 1607 (anniversary update). They just have problems mounting the drives. You have to devise some method for mounting them manually. I can suggest two options;


Option#1, by using ext2fsd software;

-Install 6.0 drivers just like before anniversary update, reboot the windows. Nothing will show up...

-Download ext2fsd even though you probably have nothing to do with ext2 or linux.

-Open Ext2 Volume Manager. In "File System" tab, your macOS partition will show as "HFS". If you installed ext2fsd before succesfully installing bootcamp drivers, it will just show as "RAW". (kind of proving bootcamp drivers DO work)

-Right click, select assign drive letter (or change drive letter).

-In the pop-up menu, select the drive letter first, then select the tick "Create a permanent MountPoint via Session Manager." It -weirdly- closes the pop-up before you click "OK". (Ext2fsd is a little buggy, you should select drive letter first, then select the tickbox. If you want to change drive letter, I suggest removing the existing one first, then re-add it from scratch)

-Reboot, and the macOS partition will be there just like before anniversary update. (On one of my computers, it didn't show on first reboot, I've gone into ext2 volume manager, redid everything then rebooted, it showed on second time.)

Option#2, mounting via Dos Devices registry edit (ext2fsd does exactly this, this is the manual way without using ext2fsd);

Run regedit, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/system/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/DOS Devices/

Right click-> new-> add string.


Enter drive letter you want by adding ":" to the end. In "data", type "\Device\HarddiskVolume#" where # will be your volume number of your partition as it would be detected in MS-DOS. I am sure someone would suggest a more elegant solution for this one, but you can simply navigate to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management and count your partitions from beginning starting with 1. In my example, I have 1 partition on disk0, and my macOS partition is 2nd one in disk1. So my volume number # is 3.


In my registry it is "G:", "REG_SZ" and "\Device\HarddiskVolume3" for name, type, and data respectively. Your letter and numbers will be different, of course.


After making the registry tweak, cross fingers and reboot, macOS partition should be there. If something else is mounted instead, check volume number.


You can -probably- do trial and error on volume number, as long as you don't put a drive letter that contradicts with anything you already have (If you accidentally put your windows volume with a different drive letter, it will just mount it twice, nothing bad will happen. If you put different volume onto same drive letter you risk breaking your boot.)

Also one user in the first forum I've posted this workaround has installed ext2fsd, mounted his macOS partition, navigated to registry, noted the letter and volume number, then uninstalled ext2fsd, and re-added the registry entry with the same letter/volume number.

Hope this helps.

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Sep 22, 2016 5:43 PM in response to Brian Kendig

I have the win 10 1607 anniversary installed with bootcamp and I was unable to see the HFS+ partition (I have installed macOS Sierra). I wanted to reinstall it with the version 1511 but before that I just followed the mentioned steps from this link to disable CoreStoge and I was able to look the partition with Paragon HFS+, without Paragon the drive didn't show anyway but disabling CS I could use it as normally!


https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO109622.html

Sep 22, 2016 5:50 PM in response to romanfromson

romanfromson wrote:


... I just followed the mentioned steps from this link to disable CoreStoge and I was able to look the partition with Paragon HFS+, without Paragon the drive didn't show anyway but disabling CS I could use it as normally!

The Apple HFS+ driver is still broken in 1607, but (commercial) Paragon HFS+ works. FV2 and Fusion drives are still

off-limits and have always been.

Sep 23, 2016 12:24 AM in response to Brian Kendig

Let me put this story into perspective, this requires some explanations, so it's a rather long message!


I am running a MacBookAir 13'' mid 2013, 1,7GHz i7, 8GB Ram, 512 GB Apple SSD. Attached to an older cinema display, using the Apple wireless keyboard, a Logitech MX Revolution mouse along with Logitech ControlCenter 3.9.4 (most of the time) and the Apple magic mouse (sometimes).


---> I have Tuxera NTFS installed (currently the 2016 release candidate).


I recently updated from El Capitan to Sierra - this worked, although not entirely well and the machine freezes now from time to time, an as yet unresolved issue which I suspect may be related to the Logitech stuff, but that's another story.


Under El Capitan I installed win10 from scratch closely following the official Apple routine for bootcamp installations. I got my win10 directly from Microsoft, it was NOT the anniversary edition but the one before that. Installation went smoothly and everything worked fine but for the Apple wireless keyboard which did not connect with a driver error message. See the separate, rather lengthy discussion of this somewhere else in this forum.


The keyboard issue can be solved, btw, to some extent by simply deleting the respective Apple driver (also out of win10, otherwise it gets reinstalled every time upon booting) and reverting to the on board Microsoft driver. This works "so so", screen brightness, volume are NOT adressable via the wireless keyboard - which is not that important - but unfortunately the "delete" button also does not work for deletion of files (you must do it via the mouse).


Anyway, apart from this issue, both OS ran fine and without any complaints.


I then both updated from El Capitan to Sierra and from win10/Nov2015 to the win10 anniversary release.


The win10 update as such went smoothly with my setup, other than users report in the internet the installation proceeded without any problems.


However, I did no longer "see" the HFS partition under bootcamp win10 AND I did no longer see the win 10 partition under Sierra!


I then checked the partition scheme and found out that win10 had created a fifth partition for win recovery, the so called "450MB-partition".


Via Tuxera I could mount the win10 partition alright under MacOS, but this had to be done every time upon booting.


So I installed under bootcamp win10 the AOMEI partition manager, deleted that fifth recovery partition and enlarged the preexisting win10 partition lying right in front of that 450MB recovery partition presumably back to its original size.


This worked fine and thereafter the win10 partition was recognized under Sierra alright.


But I still did not get the MacOS partition mounted under win10. There are suggestions in the net such as to install the MiniTool partition wizard under win10 and by using this program the partition should mount.


I can NOT confirm this, neither for the MiniTool nor for the AOMEI partitioning program.


BUT - upon installing Paragon HFS+ software the MacOS partition reappears under win10 (and leaves the macos situation otherwise unaffected, i.e. fine).


Taken together: Merging the newly created win10 recovery partition with the preexisting win10 bootcamp partition and installing Paragon HFS+ likely will solve the problems encountered with the bootcamp win10 anniversary update.


The Paragon software is free for 10 days only, then you must pay for it (it does provide both read AND write permissions from within win onto macos, which I consider potentially dangerous).


So for the time being I rather would refrain from updating to the win10 anniversary edition (and possibly also from updating to Sierra!).


Siggi Engelbrecht

Sep 29, 2016 2:04 PM in response to sev-engel

New update is out:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3194496

Addressed additional issues with multimedia, Windows kernel, Windows shell, enterprise security, storage file system, Remote Desktop, core platform, Hyper-V platform, Windows Update for Business, display kernel, near field communication (NFC), input and composition, Bluetooth, Microsoft Lync 2010 compatibility, Windows Storage API, app registration, Trusted Platform Module, Group Policy, Internet Explorer 11, virtual private network (VPN), BitLocker, wireless networking, datacenter networking, Cortana, PowerShell, Active Directory, connection manager and data usage, Access Point Name (APN) database, Microsoft Edge, Windows Recovery Environment, file clustering, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, audio playback settings, DShow Bridge, app compatibility, licensing, cloud infrastructure, domain name system (DNS) server, network controller, USB barcode reader, and Adobe Flash Player.

We shall see...

Oct 23, 2016 9:05 PM in response to Brian Kendig

I'm not sure I experienced the same issue as some people here as my partition still showed up as an HFS Plus volume but wasn't showing in File Explorer. Anyway, I thought I'd share a solution although it may not be THE solution.


Using Paragon HFS+ for Windows 11 I was able to mount my Mac partition by going to Disk Management (>Windows Key + X> Disk Management), right clicking on the HFS Plus Volume >Change Drive Letters and Paths... then clicking Add. File Explorer opened the volume.

Nov 11, 2016 1:35 PM in response to benjijames

Thank you for sharing your Paragon-experience, leonf45 and benjijames.


However, the topic of this thread reads: "Windows 10 Anniversary + Boot Camp". In plain text: after updating to W10 1610, can anyone still see the MacOS-Partition - just using bootcamp, WITHOUT purchasing any whatsoever-Third-Party-Add-On?


Even if nobody remembers, MacOS-access was a bootcamp-feature in all previous Windows-Versions, including W10-1511 🙂

Windows 10 Anniversary + Boot Camp = no longer mounting Mac partition

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