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niz85

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Apr 6, 2013
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I was using Windows 7 64-bit (installed via bootcamp) since last 2 years without any problem on my MBP.

A couple days ago, my display drivers crashed (in Windows) and I hard rebooted the system. It rebooted itself in "startup repair" but couldn't repair itself and I couldn't boot in Windows again.

I rebooted the system in Mac (OS X 10.6.8). I can't find my Windows partition here. In the "disk utility", it shows "disk0s3" which is greyed out.

From the mac terminal, I ran the following command:

Code:
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

which gave me the following output:

Code:
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  398458880] HFS+       
*3: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 399132672 -  577640448] HPFS/QNX/AUX
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

How can I access my Windows Bootcamp partition in Mac and copy the files from it?

Any help will be highly appreciated!
 
Download Paragon NTFS for Mac, it is a trail, also installs tools to repair a Windows disk in Disk Utility.
Then in DU click on the Volume and repair.
 
Download Paragon NTFS for Mac, it is a trail, also installs tools to repair a Windows disk in Disk Utility.
Then in DU click on the Volume and repair.

Thanks for your reply.

I installed Paragon NTFS for Mac. I tried to repair the disk from "disk utility". However, it couldn't repair it. Following messages are shown by DU:

Code:
Verify and Repair volume "disk0s3"
** /dev/disk0s3
could not read boot block (input/output error)
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. ... disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Looking forward to further advice.
 
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