Boot Camp Partition no longer shows in StartUp Control Panel

My Boot Camp partition no longer shows in StartUp Control Panel, but does show up using Option Key at startup. This started soon after the latest Parallels update. The Boot Camp partition seems normal and healthy in the finder. Once started via the Option Key, Windows XP-SP3 runs fine. Upgrading to BC 3.0 did not have any affect.
I've tried LOTS of troubleshooting strategies, including completely deinstalling Parallels. Deleting obvious preferences, etc.. No joy.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
if I remember correctly Parallels installs some kind of file system driver to OSX to access NTFS files system partitions.
The 'case of the missing Windows partition' is widely spread when using these NTFS file system drivers in OSX.
(Others are NTFS-3G; Paragons NTFS for Mac and Tuxera NTFS for Mac).
To my knowledge there is no other remedy to this phenomenon then to deinstall the NTFS drivers.
But as long as the Option-key is working maybe you can live with it.
Or use rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ as a Boot-Menu.
Regards
Stefan

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Windows 7 Boot Camp partition doesn't show in the System Preferences.

Hi,
I'm running an up to date 10.6.2 on my OS X partition and Windows 7 x64 on my boot camp partition. When I looked at the start up disk preference pane the windows 7 installation didn't show. Is this normal? 32bit XP always showed in the past. If not, what should I do to fix it? I know that I can boot into windows by holding down the alt key on boot but I would like to know this is working correctly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Bunt
Message was edited by: SteveBunt

Make sure that you have a good install of the Apple drivers (boot camp 3.x) in Windows and that Boot Camp Control Panel there works so that you can set the default OS to either, and that it works.
But yes, someone else mentioned the same problem or bug.
The only cause I've seen in the past was where Mac OS X had an NTFS driver and control panel (Paragon, MacFUSE, etc) and you had to use their control panel in OS X.

Boot Camp partition no longer loads/re-installs.

Hello everyone,
I'm having a strange issue with Boot Camp(or possibly my Hard Drive in general). I had a working Win7 Ultimate 32-bit partition last night, then rebooted into Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I tried rebooting into Windows 7 this morning, and it goes to a blank black screen(without the blinking cursor), and never loaded the OS. I tried accessing the Windows Boot menu to turn on visual debugging/safe mode/recovery console, and I never access that menu. I grabbed my Win7 install disc, and it also boots to a black screen. I was only able to get some display when I used a 64-bit only disc, and even that only gave me the "Windows is loading files" progress bar, and stayed there once the bar had filled.
I stuck an Arch Linux boot disc in the system, and was able to boot all the way to a bash console.
I then decided to back up my files, remove the Boot Camp partition and reinstall Windows 7. Same results as above. I never get to the installer to finish loading the Windows installer.
Anyone have any ideas?
Message was edited by: LKHetzel --- verbiage

Hi,
if I remember correctly Parallels installs some kind of file system driver to OSX to access NTFS files system partitions.
The 'case of the missing Windows partition' is widely spread when using these NTFS file system drivers in OSX.
(Others are NTFS-3G; Paragons NTFS for Mac and Tuxera NTFS for Mac).
To my knowledge there is no other remedy to this phenomenon then to deinstall the NTFS drivers.
But as long as the Option-key is working maybe you can live with it.
Or use rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ as a Boot-Menu.
Regards
Stefan

HT3986 boot camp is no longer showing on start up when pushing alt option.

After installing boot camp and windows 7 professional everything was waorking well changed my start up pref to Mac and usees option Alt at start up to select windows. Now however after a back up to external drive and running disk encyption. I'm no longer seeing boot camp as a bootable potion on start up. I atempted chaning to boot camp on start uo but it ask for a bootable disk. Any help??

It is beyond my understanding but others have discussed it.
http://www.lukefitzgerald.co.uk/2011/09/encrypting-both-os-x-and-boot-camp/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/39699/how-do-i-set-up-a-mac-to-use-both -filevault-and-boot-camp
http://macs.about.com/od/LionTipsNtricks/ss/Filevault-2-Using-Disk-Encryption-Wi th-Os-X-Lion.htm

Cloned boot camp partition won't boot

I've bought a new SSD, installed OSX and used Disk Utility to make 2 partitions. 1 for OSX and another fat32 partition for win XP.
I cloned my old windows xp boot camp partition with dd.
then I followed the instructions to add a new hybrid master boot record and marked the partition bootable (sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0, flag 4).
But the Boot camp partition doesn't show up during boot while pressing ALT and vmware is not able to boot into windows.
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 967742600] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 968152240 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] HPFS/QNX/AUX (it's FAT32 not NTFS!, however this changed after sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0 flag 4)
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       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   967742600      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   968152240     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   969421784    30531248      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can't use winclone, cause they cancelled the fat32 support and older versions don't run unter osx 10.9.
Thanks for your help.

What is a startup repair?
Could please look over that.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            492.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS HD              15.6 GB    disk0s4
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       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   960937496      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   961347136     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   962616680     6805104
   969421784    30531248      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 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 - 960937496] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 961347136 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] Win95 FAT32L
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/rBootcampDisk count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c 8e c0 8e d8 be 00 7c bf 00 |3.....|......|..|
00000010 06 b9 00 02 fc f3 a4 50 68 1c 06 cb fb b9 04 00 |.......Ph.......|
00000020 bd be 07 80 7e 00 00 7c 0b 0f 85 0e 01 83 c5 10 |....~..|........|
00000030 e2 f1 cd 18 88 56 00 55 c6 46 11 05 c6 46 10 00 |.....V.U.F...F..|
00000040 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 5d 72 0f 81 fb 55 aa 75 09 |.A..U..]r...U.u.|
00000050 f7 c1 01 00 74 03 fe 46 10 66 60 80 7e 10 00 74 |....t..F.f`.~..t|
00000060 26 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 ff 76 08 68 00 00 68 00 |&fh....f.v.h..h.|
00000070 7c 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 56 00 8b f4 cd 13 ||h..h...B.V.....|
00000080 9f 83 c4 10 9e eb 14 b8 01 02 bb 00 7c 8a 56 00 |............|.V.|
00000090 8a 76 01 8a 4e 02 8a 6e 03 cd 13 66 61 73 1c fe |.v..N..n...fas..|
000000a0 4e 11 75 0c 80 7e 00 80 0f 84 8a 00 b2 80 eb 84 |N.u..~..........|
000000b0 55 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 5d eb 9e 81 3e fe 7d 55 |U2..V...]...>.}U|
000000c0 aa 75 6e ff 76 00 e8 8d 00 75 17 fa b0 d1 e6 64 |.un.v....u.....d|
000000d0 e8 83 00 b0 df e6 60 e8 7c 00 b0 ff e6 64 e8 75 |......`.|....d.u|
000000e0 00 fb b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 3b 66 81 fb 54 |.......f#.u;f..T|
000000f0 43 50 41 75 32 81 f9 02 01 72 2c 66 68 07 bb 00 |CPAu2....r,fh...|
00000100 00 66 68 00 02 00 00 66 68 08 00 00 00 66 53 66 |.fh....fh....fSf|
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00000120 61 68 00 00 07 cd 1a 5a 32 f6 ea 00 7c 00 00 cd |ah.....Z2...|...|
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Windows Installer Doesn't Recognize BOOT CAMP Partition

Hello,
I need help and cannot find the answer anywhere on the Internet. I created a 15 gig Windows partition through boot camp successfully. My macbook restarted to run windows installer and I got through all of the screens except where it asks which partition I want to install windows on (Only gives the option of C: which is the size of my Mac OSX drive). I didn't want to install over that drive since it'll write over my Leopard OS. Does anyone know why it won't recognize the boot camp partition? I show the partition on my desktop and in my drive directory.
I also am using an old Windows XP CD that I am not sure if it has SP2 on it. I know we NEED SP2 but I'm wondering if the CD might not contain the SP2 then it won't recognize the partition (maybe the reason for needing SP2). I thought that it would still install it just wouldn't work if we updated to SP2... any ideas?!?
Thanks for any help in advance!

You do need SP2 or later, and even then, some discs do what yours did, don't prompt for target partition or give any option, AND auto select the full OS X partition.
Unless you can slipstream a full SP2 I'd shop for an SP3 disc, and make sure you aren't cutting the partition size short (and leaving 20% free on OS X at least afterwards).

Boot Camp partition won't mount in Disk Utility all of a sudden

I used to have a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition set-up and working perfectly.
Turned on my 2009 Mac Mini today and couldn't see it in the Finder. Opened Disk Utility, it was there, but grayed out. Right clicked and selected "Mount BOOTCAMP", got "mount failed"
Tried verifying and repairing disk, but no joy. So I removed the boot camp partition using Boot Camp Assistant and started again. Went fine, installed Windows 7 fine.
Booted back into Snow Leopard so I could unpair my bluetooth keyboard (I've found that I can only set-up the bluetooth keyboard in Windows 7 if I unpair it in OSX first). Again, Boot Camp partition doesn't show in the finder, and is grayed out in Disk Utility.
I googled this problem, and found a few people mentioning that NTFS drivers in OSX (e.g. MacFUSE, paragon etc) can cause issues because they conflict with Snow Leopard's own NTFS driver. I did have MacFUSE installed, so I removed it, but it didn't seem to change anything.
Any suggestions?

solution!
install NTFS-3G (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/)
open disk utility and mount your greyed out partition (NTFS-3G will mount it)
unmount it
open system preferences, go to tuxera NTFS pref, second tab (Volumes)
make sure your windows 7 partition is selected from drop down menu then click "disable tuxera NTFS"
at this point i rebooted into windows, then rebooted back into snow leopard. my windows partition was once again mounted and visible in Finder
hope this works for you guys!
Message was edited by: colmiak

Boot Camp partition not showing in startup disk or when holding alt key

I've read countless discussions about similar questions to this one, however, I still haven't been able to find any solution.
I have an old 2006 MacBook that has just been fully updated and reformatted. I'm running OSX 10.7.5 and Boot Camp 4.
I went through the Boot Camp installation from an Windows ISO image in my usb drive, where it succesfully downloaded all files needed, and prompted me to make the partition, after which it restarted and was supposed to take me to the installation manager in the Windows partition. I first got the "No bootable driver" error, to which I read I was supposed to restart the computer, hold the alt key, and choose the boot camp partition. However, it does not show up. I only get Mac and Recover drivers.
I went into the Mac's startup disk, and only the Mac driver is showing, no Boot Camp driver, however, when I go into Disk Utilities, I can see that the BootCamp driver there.
I read somewhere that I should zap pram and reset SMC, which I did with their instructions. It didn't change anything, I still only get the Mac driver and Recovery when hitting the alt key.
Does it have something to do with my MacBook being older? That's the only reason I can think that would not allow me to do this.
Let me know what other info I can give you so that you can please help me!! Thanks in advance!

In last resort I solved my missing BOOTCAMP partition problem using a program called: iPartition from coriolis systems located in the United Kingdom http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php it took me a coupleof days to figure out the credit card system they have Hint: use your 9 digit zip code to find your credit card address and call your bank if you have an overseas hold on the card!!!! The program found my missing BOOTCAMP partition and restored it. It did take a couple of e-mails to learn to use their program. Let me know how you turn out!

Can no longer see Boot Camp Partition

Hello all,
I was having problems with booting into Boot Camp/Windows 7 (I was just getting a black screen), so I attempted to delete the boot camp partition and reinstall it. When I did that, the program hung for a while, and finally said there was an error deleting the partition. However, it appears it like halfway deleted it, as it no longer shows up! When I go into disk utility, Macintosh HD shows blue, and then there is a 50 GB partition (the size of my bootcamp) that is white, but it is unlabeled. I cannot adjust the partition to make it the whole HD, and if I go to boot camp assistant, and try to make a new bootcamp partition, it bounces back with an error message as well. I am wondering how I can restore the partition back to the original all mac hd partition..ANy help would be greatly appreciated!!
Kevin

WinClone 3 $20
When you move to a new OS: clone your system, make sure you have backups you can use - for each - the partition table "rules" change with each new OS. And you want to reformat a drive from time to time especially then.
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4 is a good way to clone your OS X partitions.
Basically, "start over" and restore to one HFS volume with OS X then run Boot Camp Assistant, then restore with Winclone image you made easier.
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
Find CCC and WinClone www.macupdate.com

After Boot Camp partition, iMac no longer boots

Hi, I have a 20" iMac Core Duo (the first Intel Mac off the line) running Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I ran the Boot Camp Assistant to partition my hard drive, and it successfully created the "BOOTCAMP" drive. When it asked for my installation CD, I tried loading a Windows installation partition through a USB hard drive, but the assistant would not recognize it as an install disk. So, I closed out of the assistant early, leaving the Boot Camp partition in place. Eventually, I rebooted my machine in an attempt to boot directly from the USB drive and resume installation.
However, I found the machine will not boot at all. It powers on normally, makes the startup sound, but after a few seconds I'm left with just a flashing folder and question mark icon. Holding down Option-key at startup does nothing. Trying to boot from my Snow Leopard disc by holding down C or D during startup does nothing. Holding down Command-S does nothing. Holding down Shift-key does nothing. Resetting the PRAM does nothing.
What can I do? Is there some way I can access the on-board EFI to make sure the correct startup disk is selected? Why am I unable to boot from my CD drive?
Thanks for your help, everyone.

On OSX go to System Preferences the Startup Volume and reset your Windows 7 partition to be the default.
On the next reboot it should automatically boot into Windows.
A PRAM-reset http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1895 can be the cause of this behavior.
Stefan

Made a new partition on Macintosh HD, Boot Camp will no longer boot.

Specs:
MacBook Air 2013
8GB RAM
i7
512GB SSD
Hello all, looking for some assistance.
My HD is formatted to 400GB of OSX and 80GB of Boot Camp. I stupidly made the mistake of adding a new partition out of the large amount of free space I have on the OSX partition, to format the new partition for Windows. This made Boot Camp no longer boot. On the Disk select screen after holding Option on boot, my Boot Camp partition is not visible. I can see everything on the partition on OSX, however.
To try and fix this, I deleted the new partition and tried to reduce the hard drive back to the original two partitions. However, I cannot extend the OSX partition to fill in the new free space. So now I have a Boot Camp partition, my OSX partition, and 20GB of unused, free space that I cannot use or put back into the original partition.
I asked AppleCare live chat for any assistance, they suggested that I use "Erase free space" in Disk Utility to use the space again. However, the option is greyed out on both the drive and the Macintosh HD partition.
After a bit of googling I saw a suggestion of making a USB Recovery drive to get the space back through Disk Utility that way. This still did not work; the results were the same, unable to add the space back to the original partition, and "Erase free space" is still greyed out.
Using BootChamp (notice the H, this is an app that allows you to restart and boot directly into Boot Camp through OSX), I get a DOS screen saying "No bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key". I cannot get this screen any other way.
I have repaired and verified the disk and its permissions, to no avail.
I cannot think of anything else to do short of formatting the entire drive but this is obviously less than preferable. I additionally do not have a backup of the BootCamp partition (as it is not accessible), even though everything is visible on the partition through OSX.
So, in summary, I added a new partition to my HD and now Boot Camp will not boot. Any ideas?

"rEFIt is an alternative bootloader for your Mac that's a lot more forgiving. If you don't think investing in iPartition is worth it, I'd give this a shot:
In rEFIt, do not boot: go to the EFI shell, and type "gptsync". This will tell you that the partition table is out of sync, and will offer to sync it for you. Say "yes", naturally. Now reboot and all systems should be go!"
This worked.

Boot Camp Partition shows up Smaller in Windows 7 Setup

I just installed a new Seagate 1TB hybrid drive (STBD1000400) in my mid-2009 15" MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB of RAM, with OS X 10.9.2 and Boot Camp (and all other Software up to date). Everything went fine with the installation of the new Drive and is showing up as 1TB in the system in OS X.
When I go to setup my partition in Boot Camp I set it so OSX has 600GB and Boot Camp has 400GB. After it completes the partition it automatically goes into installing Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium. But when I go to pick which partition to install it on, the 400GB Boot Camp partition I created only shows up as 372GB, not 400GB. And I can see my 600GB partition in the list only showing up around 540GB. After the Windows 7 install it still shows the drive as 372GB.
After the install and started back up in OS X and I checked the drive and it shows them correctly as 600GB and 400GB. So restarted back in Windows 7 and it still shows the Boot Camp partition as 372GB instead of 400. I even went into Disk Management and it doesn't show any unpartitioned drive space available either.
So I started back up in OS X and deleted the Boot Camp partition and started over trying to go with the 600 and 400GB partitions, but it still shows the 400GB partition as only 372GB again during the Windows 7 setup.
Anyone know what can be causing Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium to not recognize the full 400GB partition?
Anyone ever come across a similar problem?
Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions offered.
Thank you,
Nick

Capacity of the drive or size of the volume. In windows 7 it says 931.32GB. Rebooting into Mavericks, DU shows the volume as
1,000,204,886,016 Bytes
So....at least one of them must be wrong I would consider Windows 7 using some 1024 based number and the mac showing raw bytes. I bet all your space is accounted for.

How do I write to my boot camp partition with Paragon NTFS that comes with Mountain Lion? Or how do I get my boot camp partition to show up in Paragon's "Available NTFS partitions:" panel like my external hard drive does?

I've just set up boot camp on my MacBookPro with a freshly installed Mountain Lion and Windows 7.
I would like to read and write in both directions from drive to drive if possible. I've hunted around quite a bit to try and work this out, and so far I understand that one can write to or transfer files from one drive to the other with Paragon NTFS among other softwares.
I noticed when I looked in my system preferences the utility "Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X" came with Mountain Lion and it will recognize an external hard drive when I have one plugged in under "Available NTFS partitions:". However, it does not automatically recognize my NTFS boot camp partition nor does it automatically give me write access.
Is the Paragon NTFS that comes with Mountain Lion limited in some way?
Do I still need to purchase and download the software of the same name from Paragon to get the full write privilidges I want or is there something I can do to get the version of Paragon on my MAC to recognize and give me write priviledges to my boot camp partition?
I'm open to all suggestions to get the read / write access between partitions in my boot camped drive.
MacFUSE is also listed in the System Preferences of my machine (it also came with Mountain Lion), if that helps. I'm still working out exactly what each of these is supposed to do and how I can use it to accomplish the task at hand.
My boot camp drive does appear normally in other contexts and in disk utility it indicates that the drive is mounted.
Thank you for any guidance you can give me.

Interesting. Comes with? you didn't have either before? Paragon is commercial and is now v. 10.0, they were the only one keeping updated and was supporting 10.7.4. I would not enable more than one.
For writing to HFS Paragon has theirs but probably give the nod to MacDrive there.
I never do an upgrade to a new OS over the old system, I backup (clone) and format the drive with the new OS and do the install so whatever is there I know is clean and also to keep from carrying around leftovers from years and systems past.
I would assme Paragon is limited. Try their site and knowledge base?
MacDrive
http://www.mediafour.com/updates/macdrive
Paragon HFS
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/
Paragon NTFS
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

Boot Camp is no longer bootable after tech tool pro.

Really need som guidance today!
A few days ago i created an eDrive with techtool pro, honestly I don't know why I even did this my computer was running fine...curiousity I guess. I booted in to the eDrive and ran a volume optimization on my mac os 10.8.3 partition. This went on for 12 hours until about 96%, at which point it stopped and did not complete the process.
When I tried to boot into Mac Os, the option appeared in the Alt/Option startup selection but when only a gray screen and then a crossed circle and nothing else. I solved this only by restoring my Mac Os partition with a Time Machine backup from over a month ago.
Now, my boot camp partiotin is no longer available in the Alt/Option start up screen, and when I manually choose it in the Mac Os startup disk utility it loads to a black screen which read "no bootable volume, please insert startup disk and press any key". Disk utility recognizes the volume which is strange.
I never had a DVD, and i installed windows using a USB iso image, which i of course lost. Now i am trying to create a USB in bootcamp assistant, but none of them are booting.
What is going on?
PLEASE HELP!!!!

You have a recovery partition for repairing and reinstalling OSX (unless TT borked that as well). Reboot, press command and R at the sound of the chime.
Use Disk Utility to repair (do not try to repair the Boot Camp partition) or choose Reinstall OSX

Can't see Windows 7 Boot Camp partition from Mac

I've had a Win7 boot partition on my 2011 MBP for a while and it boots just fine. I have a Mac boot partition, a Mac data partition, and a NTFS Win 7 partition. But the Boot Camp partition is greyed out and invisible when booted in to the Mac.
When in Windows, I can see and use the Mac partition from Win7 with MacDrive. The problem is that I cannot see the Windows partition from the Mac. I have Paragon NTFS for Mac installed as well as MacFuse. I tried to see the partition with CampTune and got this error:
I also tried going to the BootCamp Assistant and saw this:
Yet when booted in Windows, I see the Mac partition just fine.
Here is the disk info from terminal:
Uptime: 11:57 up 3 days, 12:28, 2 users, load averages: 0.56 0.56 0.64
~ > sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       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   469926800      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   470336440      262144
   470598584   699733064      3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1170331648      262144
1170593792   294553600      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
~ > sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 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 - 469926800] HFS+
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 470598584 - 699733064] HFS+
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1170593792 - 294553600] HPFS/QNX/AUX
~ >
Does anyone know if I can repair this without having to re-format? I have a 13" White MacBook as well and this setup works just fine. I did it such a long time ago that I forgot how I did the first one.
There is another thread on here that similar but not quite like my problem because I ca actually boo into Windows.
If anyone can help it would certainly be appreciated!
Thanks,
Randy

go to --------http://www.cnet.com/news/boot-camp-partitions-not-working-after-installing-os-x- lion/#postComments
just disable your ntfs software --- no need to uninstall

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