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I had my Boot Camp running from Windows 7 to upgraded Windows 10 without any issues for almost 8-9 years. My set up is High Sierra 5,1 Mac Pro.
I was originally using 1TB SSD and split that into 256GB Mac OS and 768GB Boot Camp. I moved my 256GB Mac OS by using Carbon Copy Cloner onto a different SSD, so I went into Windows and tried to add that 256GB partition onto Boot Camp using NTFS for more storage. Windows 10 Disk Management software didn't work so I had to use a third-party software called AOMEI (to be honest I don't remember but I think it was this. Definitely not Paragon).
The application did some work in Windows, and it said it had to reboot. It rebooted and went into old DOS style program mode and was running for a long time. I went to sleep and came back in the morning and it said it couldn't do it. So once I restarted my Mac Pro the Windows wouldn't boot.
I went back to High Sierra and now it's greyed out. I went into Disk Utility but cannot mount. I went into Terminal same thing.
I was able to go into Disk Utility and delete the 256GB partition as FREE partition. That's about it. I couldn't mount/alter my Boot Camp partition.
If possible, I really do not want to lose it because I have some valuable data in there. What next step should I do? Thanks in advance.
I also got some advice from some other person, that I should use GParted to merge those 2 partitions in Boot mode and use Windows setup Command Prompt to use bootrec /fixboot and /fixmbr, but I couldn't make any Gparted available for USB boot. Below was what I did.
1) downloaded Tuxboot (Tuxboot - About)
2) chose gparted_live-stable under On-Line Distribution
3) tried both 3 methods of the version (current, 1.0.0-1.i686-pae, 1.0.0-1-i686)
4) Clicked OK and it automatically downloaded the bootable in usb file.
5) Tried putting ALT-OPT on my Mac Pro, and showed EFI, but didn't boot. Went into Mac Recovery Boot and said it couldn't boot.
6) Also tried with Surface Pro 4 by using 2 methods (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023511/surface-boot-surface-from-a-usb-device), still didn't boot from USB.
Thanks in advance.
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I had my Boot Camp running from Windows 7 to upgraded Windows 10 without any issues for almost 8-9 years. My set up is High Sierra 5,1 Mac Pro.
I was originally using 1TB SSD and split that into 256GB Mac OS and 768GB Boot Camp. I moved my 256GB Mac OS by using Carbon Copy Cloner onto a different SSD, so I went into Windows and tried to add that 256GB partition onto Boot Camp using NTFS for more storage. Windows 10 Disk Management software didn't work so I had to use a third-party software called AOMEI (to be honest I don't remember but I think it was this. Definitely not Paragon).
The application did some work in Windows, and it said it had to reboot. It rebooted and went into old DOS style program mode and was running for a long time. I went to sleep and came back in the morning and it said it couldn't do it. So once I restarted my Mac Pro the Windows wouldn't boot.
I went back to High Sierra and now it's greyed out. I went into Disk Utility but cannot mount. I went into Terminal same thing.
I was able to go into Disk Utility and delete the 256GB partition as FREE partition. That's about it. I couldn't mount/alter my Boot Camp partition.
If possible, I really do not want to lose it because I have some valuable data in there. What next step should I do? Thanks in advance.
I also got some advice from some other person, that I should use GParted to merge those 2 partitions in Boot mode and use Windows setup Command Prompt to use bootrec /fixboot and /fixmbr, but I couldn't make any Gparted available for USB boot. Below was what I did.
1) downloaded Tuxboot (Tuxboot - About)
2) chose gparted_live-stable under On-Line Distribution
3) tried both 3 methods of the version (current, 1.0.0-1.i686-pae, 1.0.0-1-i686)
4) Clicked OK and it automatically downloaded the bootable in usb file.
5) Tried putting ALT-OPT on my Mac Pro, and showed EFI, but didn't boot. Went into Mac Recovery Boot and said it couldn't boot.
6) Also tried with Surface Pro 4 by using 2 methods (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023511/surface-boot-surface-from-a-usb-device), still didn't boot from USB.
Thanks in advance.
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