Q: Camptune toasted my Bootcamp. Recovery help requested.
I have a 2 TB hard disk on my late 2011 27" Mac. Running El Capitan.
I had 750 GB for OSX and the rest for Windows 7.
I got a new windows machine and decided to shrink the windows to 750 and expand the OSX to 1.25 TB.
I tried to save some effort by using Camptune, but that turned out to be a bad idea.
Now, Bootcamp is gone, my machine can only see 1.5 TB of the existing 2 TB.
I would like to
1) Have access to the full 2 TB.
2) See the existing Boot Camp.
I can trash the existing Boot Camp if necessary and start again, but I still want to get the full 2 TB.
Loner T helped me with a similar problem last year.
Ed
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Posted on Oct 4, 2016 5:30 PM
chinacat2002 wrote:
1) I don't think I can see my Windows side in Finder. I tried and did some research. Under "My iMac", I can only see Mac HD with size 709 GB.
Can you post the output of
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
2) Is it possible for me to trash the reclaim the whole 1.25 TB on the non-Mac system by doing some kind of wipe? I can live without the data there.
If you remove Windows using BC Assistant, after we resolve the partition header issue, you can get all the disk space back into OS X by using Boot Camp for Mac: Remove Windows from your Mac . You can then re-install a smaller Windows instance.
Posted on Oct 4, 2016 8:24 PM


