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Oct 20, 2016 7:49 AM in response to Blablabloxby Loner T,You should backup OSX and Windows, and use
1. Winclone ro similar third-party products, or,
2. Use Disk Utility (carefully) and use GParted to absorb free space created via DU.
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Oct 20, 2016 8:27 AM in response to Loner Tby Blablablox,Can you lend me a hand on the steps to follow please? I remember trying to use the disk utility to create a third partition, since I didn't see a way to extend the bootcamp partition. And as a result of that, I couldn't boot windows anymore.
So I wouldn't want to make such a mistake again.
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Oct 20, 2016 11:09 AM in response to Blablabloxby Loner T,If Windows is currently working, post the output of the following Terminal commands as a baseline.
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
What is the year/model of your Mac?
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Oct 21, 2016 5:02 AM in response to Loner Tby Blablablox,I have an early-2014 macbook air
here are the outputs:
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 125.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 125.0 GB disk0s4
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
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 490234751
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 244416696 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
244826336 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
246095872 244137984 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856 863
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$ sudo fdik /dev/disk0
sudo: fdik: command not found
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 244416696] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 244826336 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 246095872 - 244137984] HPFS/QNX/AUX
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$
MacBook-Air-de-Mama:~ mamamomo$
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Oct 21, 2016 7:39 AM in response to Blablabloxby Rudegar,in windows you can also just mount an external hd as a dir some
User/YOU/Movies/ is not your c drive but an external hd
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Oct 21, 2016 7:45 AM in response to Blablabloxby Loner T,Create a FAT32 partition using Disk Utility. It will render your Windows unbootable temporarily.
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Oct 21, 2016 11:13 AM in response to Blablabloxby Loner T,The Windows partition will become GPT5 after you create the new partition, instead of its current GPT4. This will invalidate the MBR. It will be corrected once the space is added to Bootcamp using GParted, and a MBR is recreated with the new GPT4 entry.
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Oct 21, 2016 12:06 PM in response to Loner Tby Blablablox,okay, I downloaded the Gparted iso in the official website, but As I try to mount it, it tells me that it can't be mounted as an error message.
How comes it doesn't mount?
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Oct 21, 2016 12:13 PM in response to Loner Tby Blablablox,the error message is "No mountable file systems" something like that, since my mac isn't in english.
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Oct 21, 2016 12:36 PM in response to Blablabloxby Loner T,You can download Gparted Live USB from http://gparted.org/liveusb.php and then use this link to resize your Windows partition and correct your MBR to match the GPT.