Hi,
after a harddisk failure, i can no longer boot into Windows, even though it is located on a still working harddisk which i can see and read in OS X.
When i use the system preferences to set the startup disk to the Boot Camp partition, i get a message that says: "No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key?"
When i press the ALT key after the chime, i can only select my OS X partition or the OS X recovery partition.
My setup is as followed:
The primary disk (/dev/disk0) has two partitions: My OS X partition called "SSD" (with OS X 10.10.3), and a NTFS Boot Camp partition called "BOOTCAMP" with Windows 7. I can still access the Boot Camp partition from OS X.
The harddisk that failed (/dev/disk3 i believe) had two partitions: a HFS one for data storage called "Data", and a FAT 32 one for exchanging data between OS X and Windows called "FAT 32".
An earlier Windows Vista installation was also available, although i am not sure where this was located. Perhaps on the FAT 32 disk? When i booted using the Boot Camp partition, the Windows boot loader asked me whether i wanted to boot into Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
I have since replaced the faulty harddisk with another that has the same partitions but is empty so far.
Is there a way to boot into Windows 7 again (I don't care about Vista)?
1. Here is the relevant ouput of
diskutil list (I have removed other disks that are not involved)
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS SSD 215.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 40.2 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data FAT 32 350.2 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_HFS Data 649.7 GB disk3s3
2. Here is the output for
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 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 - 419921888] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 420331528 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 421601280 - 78516224] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3. Here is the output for
sudo gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=256060514304; sectorsize=512; blocks=500118192
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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 419921888 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
420331528 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
421601064 216
421601280 78516224 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
500117504 655
500118159 32 Sec GPT table
500118191 1 Sec GPT header
after a harddisk failure, i can no longer boot into Windows, even though it is located on a still working harddisk which i can see and read in OS X.
When i use the system preferences to set the startup disk to the Boot Camp partition, i get a message that says: "No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key?"
When i press the ALT key after the chime, i can only select my OS X partition or the OS X recovery partition.
My setup is as followed:
The primary disk (/dev/disk0) has two partitions: My OS X partition called "SSD" (with OS X 10.10.3), and a NTFS Boot Camp partition called "BOOTCAMP" with Windows 7. I can still access the Boot Camp partition from OS X.
The harddisk that failed (/dev/disk3 i believe) had two partitions: a HFS one for data storage called "Data", and a FAT 32 one for exchanging data between OS X and Windows called "FAT 32".
An earlier Windows Vista installation was also available, although i am not sure where this was located. Perhaps on the FAT 32 disk? When i booted using the Boot Camp partition, the Windows boot loader asked me whether i wanted to boot into Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
I have since replaced the faulty harddisk with another that has the same partitions but is empty so far.
Is there a way to boot into Windows 7 again (I don't care about Vista)?
1. Here is the relevant ouput of
diskutil list (I have removed other disks that are not involved)
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS SSD 215.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 40.2 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data FAT 32 350.2 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_HFS Data 649.7 GB disk3s3
2. Here is the output for
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 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 - 419921888] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 420331528 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 421601280 - 78516224] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3. Here is the output for
sudo gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=256060514304; sectorsize=512; blocks=500118192
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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 419921888 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
420331528 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
421601064 216
421601280 78516224 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
500117504 655
500118159 32 Sec GPT table
500118191 1 Sec GPT header