Hey guys,
I've had this weird problem for a while with Boot Camp and Windows 7.
Below I have included terminal output for the sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0 commands and the sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 commands
I have been at my wits end about this and it's driving me crazy! Very tempted to sell this iMac and just go back to windows computers.
I would be eternally grateful to anyone who could lend a hand. I've tried googling for so long now.
I've had this weird problem for a while with Boot Camp and Windows 7.
- My computer has trouble booting.
- I can boot if I hold down ALT and selecting the OS, sometimes it needs a CD in the DVD drive (weird, huh)
- When I turn on my Mac, the grey screen with the apple logo stays fully grey for a LONG time before the apple logo appears
- During this time, the hard drive makes a lot of read noises, making me believe there is an issue with the MBR/GPT or something similar
- This problem had occurred for a long time, but then I made matters even worse by attempting to shrink my Mac partition and create a 3rd partition in between the two, screwing up the MBR and boot tables. I was able to get around this problem with rEFIt and a lot of hassle
- To fix this problem, I deleted my windows/storage partition
- I then made the Mac partition smaller
- and redid the whole boot camp process, this time with a larger boot camp partition
- The LONG boot times are still there, but I no longer have to go through rEFIt
- However, PROBLEM 1: OS X cannot see my boot camp partition at all (suggesting something wrong with mbr/gpt/etc)
- I have since, in an attempt to fix this, done a clean install of OS X Mountain Lion by reformatting my OS X partition. I still (PROBLEM 2) have long boot problems, and now Mountain Lion can't see Windows 7 and I can't boot to it. Going to attempt to delete the recovery partition to see if that helps.
Below I have included terminal output for the sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0 commands and the sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 commands
I have been at my wits end about this and it's driving me crazy! Very tempted to sell this iMac and just go back to windows computers.
Code:
rais-imac:~ Rai$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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 821258416 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
821668056 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
822937600 1130586112 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header
rais-imac:~ Rai$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 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 - 821258416] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 821668056 - 1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 822937600 - 1130586112] Win95 FAT32LI would be eternally grateful to anyone who could lend a hand. I've tried googling for so long now.
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