Boot Camp partition doesn't stay mounted

After using Boot Camp Assistant to create a new partition and installing Win 7 a disk icon representing the Windows partition joined the icons for my Mac partition and Mac HD 2.  A month later I installed Parallels, but didn't like it, so I uninstalled it.  After that the disk icon for the Windows partition disapeared.  I remounted the Win partition using disk utility.  But every time I boot back to the Mac OS X Lion after having used my Win 7 OS the disk icon for the Win partiton is gone and I have to remount it with disk utility.  How do I get that disk icon to stay put like it did before I played with Parallels?

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.

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    Message was edited by: SteveBunt

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    But yes, someone else mentioned the same problem or bug.
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    Message was edited by: colmiak

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    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).
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    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
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    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.....|......|..|
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    I want to make an exact clone so it has all the operating system, files and everything.
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    Here are some previous coments made on this forun regarding backup of a Boot Camp  partition. I use Paragon HDMSuite 2011.
    Casper 6 does seem to work;
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    Acronis 2011 w/ plus pak, didn't work well previously
    Ghost 15 - probably not
    Casper 6 works for Windows on Boot Camp only
    CopyCatX is more lengthy and sector copy so takes the longest.
    Paragon Hard Drive Suite 2011 because it works great
    and they have CampTune
    Windows 7 system backup and restore - Apple's goofy HFS read-only interferes with system and file backup.
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    I have restored from DU, CCC, SuperDuper and TM, they all worked, TM was slower but not a lot, you can boot from the others, which I prefer.
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    1) Boot from the Recovery Disk (I'm assuming that the backup hard drive is attached before you reboot)
    2) Select Paragon Hard Disk Manager
    3) Launch the Backup Wizard by selecting Wizards > Backup Wizard
    4) Select the Mac hard disk (not the partition) where it asks "what to backup"
    5) On the Backup Destination page, select "Save data to any local drive or a network share"
    6) Hit the radio button for the "Save to local drive option" (unless you got a boatload of DVD's  )
    7) Select the external USB drive as the backup destination
    8) Look over and correct the name and comments
    9) Hit Next to start the backup
    When it's done, you have an entire copy of your Mac's HD saved to external media.
    If you need to recover your HD, just run the Recovery Wizard and reverse the process.

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    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.
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    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?
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    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
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  • I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?

    I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?
    I have tried bootcamp and have had no luck due to the fact that boot camp doesn't see the additional HDD space of 250Gb. What am I not doing?

    Ouch, well there is a problem.
    This is the stack of partitions on your old drive
    EFI (hidden)
    Lion (50GB say)
    Bootcamp (50GB say)
    Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
    This is the same stack on your new drive imaged from the old one.
    EFI (hidden)
    Lion (50GB say)
    Bootcamp (50GB say)
    Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
    Emtpy Space (100GB say)
    This is what you want
    EFI (hidden)
    Lion (100GB say)
    Bootcamp (100GB say)
    Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
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    Your Duplicator duplicated perfectly, too perfectly Likely would work with same sized drives/partitions.
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    As you know you will have to re-validate Windows with Lord Redmond or it expires as you changed the hardware.

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    Firstly, let me lay out my situation. I have an old MacBook Pro (2,2) with a broken disk drive. It was dropped in its youth and can no longer read from or write to CDs or DVDs of any kind. I have just recently bought a new MacBook Pro to replace it (6,2) and am currently trying to convert the old computer into an XP machine through Boot Camp. I'd like to be able to do so without having to buy an external disk drive.
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