Is it possible to recover my bootcamp and reinstall OSX?

[hellpal]

Macbook Pro 15” Late 2013 2.3Ghz. It was stupid of me to take this so lightly. I had a small partition that I had made in my boot camp windows 8.1 that I wasn’t using. So I used mini partition tool to merge that and the bootcamp drive, it asked me to restart and I did. Well it completed the process and rebooted, but it doesn’t load up. The initial music plays and then it plays a a very tiny clip of that music and stays stuck on a black screen with no errors; sort of like when a game freezes and the music clips and loops.

So then I forced a reboot with the powerbutton. Still the same. Then I held down option after booting. To my surprised it only showed Recovery and Bootcamp options. If I select bootcamp, the above explained situation happens.

I selected recovery and went into disk utility. It only showed disk02, recovery HD, bootcamp and under disk 1 OSX Base System. I’ll attach an image. The 02 and Bootcamp are greyed out. I cannot mount them. I cannot erase them.


At one point when I clicked verify on 02, it gave an error “Unable to repair while live”. I felt positive then went to try and do a reinstall of OS X, but can’t select that drive because it’s in MS-DOS(FAT32) format. So I went back and now the drive is greyed out again. Verifying and repairing gives errors, and can’t be mounted.

I tried fsck fy in singleuser mode but it gave a command not found error.

When I click the 02 and bootcamp drives, they only show capacity now, and “-“ all other info.

What can I do to resolve this? Is there anyway the files are still there? I was hoping maybe I could reinstall OSX then repair the Bootcamp drive some how. What are my options?

Edit: I did an NVRAM reset and now the disk0s2 shows its format as Mac OS Extended(pic attached)


Edit: I tried to do a repair after and it gave the error “Disk utility can’t repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed-up files”. Not sure why it said disk twice.

 

[SRLMJ23]

Files are probably gone. If you want to get your hard drive right again I would do a clean install.

 

[hellpal]

Files are probably gone. If you want to get your hard drive right again I would do a clean install.

Damn The thing is when I go into reinstall, it only gives me the Recovery Hd Drive as an option for installing. So how could I completely erase everything and do a clean install? I don’t mind doing it

 

[SRLMJ23]

You need make a bootable USB of whatever version of macOS you are using. Then when you boot to the USB, you will see Disk Utility, and then you can erase the entire drive.

 

[pmiles]

Yep as SRLMJ23 said... a clean install. Back in the day, this was done with the original discs that shipped with the system. Now they try to use recovery partitions to serve the same role, but it's akin to a scratched disc in this case... so you get to acquire a new set of discs so to speak... which is in the form of a USB drive formatted to do the very same function.

Always keep a USB drive for just such emergencies. Of course, if the system isn't considered EOL, you can take it to a Apple Store and they can put the OS back on for you. Will take some time there, so be prepared. 2013 may be EOL'd. I'd call and ask first. They helped me out with a 2010 computer that was well past EOL.

 

[hellpal]

Thanks for the info and the help guys!