Hey everyone. I'm using a 2011 27" iMac on Mavericks OS X 10.9.2 (13C64).
A few months ago, I bought a Windows 7 Disk and installed it onto Boot Camp. Everything was working well, until I resized the Windows 7 partition to take up unallocated space from within Windows---something I NOW know is a bad idea. I was able to boot into Windows using ALT once, but yesterday while using Windows I all of a sudden got a black screen (This may explain everything.) When I rebooted, I could no longer boot into Windows when I pressed ALT during startup.
I was able to create a new MBR, which now allows me to select Windows from the boot menu, except now I get:
"Disk Read Error
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart"
From here, I'm not sure what to do, as I've read every situation is different.
The report from Partition Inspector is as follows.
Result from sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0 is:
Result from sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/rdisk0 is:
I no longer have access to the Windows 7 disk, which was for one time use anyway and didn't have any recovery software. That also means that for me, reinstalling Windows 7 is out of the question.
If there's no way to fix this, I'd like some details as to how to access a few files from Windows before nuking the partition; everything was backed up already except for some game screenshots, and I'd like to at least recover those.
Thanks.
A few months ago, I bought a Windows 7 Disk and installed it onto Boot Camp. Everything was working well, until I resized the Windows 7 partition to take up unallocated space from within Windows---something I NOW know is a bad idea. I was able to boot into Windows using ALT once, but yesterday while using Windows I all of a sudden got a black screen (This may explain everything.) When I rebooted, I could no longer boot into Windows when I pressed ALT during startup.
I was able to create a new MBR, which now allows me to select Windows from the boot menu, except now I get:
"Disk Read Error
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart"
From here, I'm not sure what to do, as I've read every situation is different.
The report from Partition Inspector is as follows.
Result from sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0 is:
Result from sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/rdisk0 is:
I no longer have access to the Windows 7 disk, which was for one time use anyway and didn't have any recovery software. That also means that for me, reinstalling Windows 7 is out of the question.
If there's no way to fix this, I'd like some details as to how to access a few files from Windows before nuking the partition; everything was backed up already except for some game screenshots, and I'd like to at least recover those.
Thanks.
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