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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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Nov 11, 2016 2:13 PM in response to rollercoasta

Hi rollercoasta, I con confirm you that even with the mac os sierra update, I didn't see the mac os partition on windows. I had to install paragon HFS plus for windows. And now everything works as previously. I see my bootcamp partition on mac os sire and I also see my mac os partition on windows bootcamp (but with a third party software paragon hfs plus for windows).

Nov 12, 2016 10:14 AM in response to rollercoasta

rollercoasta wrote:


Though MS had announceda fix already in Septembre, I wouldn't mind converting my HD into CS either.


But there's no Bootcamp-CS-driver available yet from Apple - afaik.


So, for the time being, we're apparently dependant on Third-Party-Software.

The so-called 'fix' is broken. Converting your OS X Partition to CS will stop third-party drivers from working with JHFS+. There is no likelihood of a BC/CS driver, unless consumers threaten to stop buying Macs to run Windows. CS was released in 2011 under OS X Lion, and for the last 5+ years, if Apple wanted to write a CS driver for Windows, they already would have written one.

Nov 12, 2016 11:56 AM in response to benjijames

benjijames wrote:


Yesterday after the mac os sierra update, I was able to see the bootcamp partition on mac OS. But today I cannot see anymore the bootcamp partition... Strange....

Do you have a third-party NTFS driver on the OS X side?


But I still can see the mac partition on windows with paragon HFS plus for windows.

This is third-party software, not the native BC drivers. Users may not want to spend money to buy a third-party product.

Nov 30, 2016 2:28 PM in response to Brian Kendig

I was having the same problem at first initially and then again after a more recent update, but I am now running 1607 version 14393.4979 (release preview)on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro and can access the partition. In connection with that issue and a separate problem I had booting OSX at all, I downloaded the Paragon trial version. After I had installed that trial version, before I had even restarted for it to actually take effect, suddenly my Mac E partition showed up again via Explorer without me even needing to login to Paragon. So it seems like somehow something that happened during that install process made it visible to Windows again without even needing to use the program itself. And it's definitely via Windows -- other applications such as Real Player are also able to access music files on that partition. Hope that helps somebody!

Nov 30, 2016 3:47 PM in response to newsjunkie247

newsjunkie247 wrote:


After I had installed that trial version, before I had even restarted for it to actually take effect, suddenly my Mac E partition showed up again via Explorer without me even needing to login to Paragon. So it seems like somehow something that happened during that install process made it visible to Windows again without even needing to use the program itself. And it's definitely via Windows -- other applications such as Real Player are also able to access music files on that partition. Hope that helps somebody!

A Restart is not absolutely necessary. As a test remove Paragon, reboot to ensure that there are no Paragon DLLs in use and then test again. Paragon also uses the MBR, which is not the case on 2015 and later Macs.

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

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