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bootcamp partition missing

I have a Macbook Pro with Bootcamp Windows 7 installed. Was working on Mac OSX side with a external hard drive attached. Upon rebooting to load into Windows, the system was attempting to load a windows drive from the external HDD. When removing the external HDD, the option to load the windows Bootcamp drive disappeared.

I booted back into Mac OSX and the Bootcamp drive is no longer on the desktop, the Disk Utilities shows only the Mac partition. The entire partition/space from the Bootcamp drive is gone.

Through another thread, I was able to get the Windows drive to reappear in the boot up screen (holding option), but it loads to a black screen and remains so.

Posted on Apr 23, 2018 7:09 PM

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Loner T

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May 21, 2018 6:40 PM in response to n156

If you get a file system damaged message, we cannot do much. If you have checked each of them, are there any more MS Data entries further down?

n156 Author

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May 21, 2018 7:08 PM in response to Loner T

Tried scrolling to the bottom. Couldn't find anymore MS Data entries further down. I would have to resort to reformatting at this point then?

Loner T

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May 21, 2018 7:59 PM in response to n156

Can we check the first two entries, before we consider other options?

n156 Author

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May 22, 2018 11:05 AM in response to Loner T

Yeah, I checked the first two MS Data entries as well. Same message as the others, unfortunately.

Loner T

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May 22, 2018 1:03 PM in response to n156

Do you want/need to try and recover data?

n156 Author

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May 22, 2018 5:14 PM in response to Loner T

Ran PhotoRec on the MS Data partition. Selected Other (should I have selected ext2/ext3?). The recovery ran, but with 0 files saved.

Loner T

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May 22, 2018 6:15 PM in response to n156

Do you want to try the tools listed in https://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools ?

n156 Author

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May 22, 2018 6:36 PM in response to Loner T

I'll give these a shot. Any recommendations on which one to start with?

Loner T

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May 18, 2018 12:38 PM in response to n156

Select any partition, and the Deeper Scan should search the whole disk to try and find a valid NTFS header.

n156 Author

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May 21, 2018 11:24 AM in response to Loner T

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