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s.m.t.

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Mar 7, 2010
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Ran into something I have not encountered before... When I choose my Windows partition in the start disk preferences and reboot, I get a no bootable device error. If I hold down the option key at boot I don't see that partition show up, but I do have an entry for EFI Boot. If I choose that Windows boots...

I have had Windows 7 and Window 10 tech preview builds working before without this issue. Today I formatted my drive that Windows is on and performed a clean install of the latest build (just like I always had)... I always leave the drive as unpartitioned space and don't manually format it (I let Windows create the partitions)...

Think this could just be a bug in the current build 10162?

Code:
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_RAID                         2.0 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               471.9 MB   disk2s1
   2:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk2s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BootCamp                499.5 GB   disk2s4
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_RAID                         2.0 TB     disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk3s3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:          Apple_CoreStorage                        *4.0 TB     disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Backups                *4.0 TB     disk5
                                 Logical Volume on disk4
                                 98DA75AD-E5A0-4B4C-9D32-7D06AFEAD4B4
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk6
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk6s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Media                   4.0 TB     disk6s2

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk2
gpt show: /dev/disk2: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/disk2: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk2: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk2: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34       2014       
       2048     921600      1  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
     923648     204800      2  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    1128448      32768      3  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
    1161216  975611904      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  976773120         15       
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 255  63 [         1 - 4294967295] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused    
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused    
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 
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