Bootcamp disappeared after partitioning

I've seen plenty of threads around here regarding this issue but they're impossible to follow at least for me... Can someone point me to the right track? I'm losing hope here...

Hi,
Well My experience with Bootcamp is one installation for a family member and no further work n it.
I wanted to get more info from you, it helps those members that do know to understand the problem.
Hopefully now you have explained it someone will know the answer.
A few thoughts.
Did you have a backup of your data on the Windows partition?
Have you a backup of your OSX system and data, if not do that now why you still have access in case you lose that partition.?
Partitioning a drive with Bootcamp I understand is different than a plain OS X drive.
You may require some form of recovery software if you cannot just start over with the installation.
Post your problem in the Bootcamp forum https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
With the details in your last post.
Hope you get a good resolution
Regards

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Bootcamp Windows 7 Disappeared after partition resize

Hello guys,
I have a Mid 2013 Macbook Pro 15 and just recently I installed windows 7 using Bootcamp. After a few days I decided to resize my Windows partition.
So, I used Disk Utility to shrink my OSX partition. Then I restarted my laptop in Windows 7 and used a third-party software to add the available space that I just created to my Windows partition. After finishing the operation and restarting my computer in Windows everything was fine. (The disk has been resized and no files were missing whatsoever). Few hours later I wanted to use my OSX, so I restarted my laptop in OSX again and BOOM. Bootcamp disappeared. When I was opening "Startup Disk" nothing was there, like it has been completely removed.
I've done a little research but I couldn't get any results with terminal commands and stuff like that.
So what I did is this,
I restarted my computed holding the options "alt" key and got into the Startup Manager.
There were 3 Drives
1. Macintosh HD
2. Recovery 10.8
3. Windows
I clicked windows and successfully managed to get into my Windows 7. No files were missing everything was working perfectly.
After restarting to OSX again still everything was missing!
So the problem seems to be that Windows are still there and working properly but BOOTCAMP and Windows have disappeared and going in Startup Manager is the only way to access them.
I hope I helped someone with the same problem.
Any ideas or solutions are welcome.

Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 eb 58 90 42 53 44 20 20 34 2e 34 00 02 01 20 00 |.X.BSD 4.4... .|
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 20 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 |........ .......|
00000020 00 40 06 00 4f 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |[email protected]...........|
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 29 ed 17 e3 67 45 46 49 20 20 20 20 20 20 |..)...gEFI |
00000050 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 fa 31 c0 8e d0 bc | FAT32 .1....|
00000060 00 7c fb 8e d8 e8 00 00 5e 83 c6 19 bb 07 00 fc |.|......^.......|
00000070 ac 84 c0 74 06 b4 0e cd 10 eb f5 30 e4 cd 16 cd |...t.......0....|
00000080 19 0d 0a 4e 6f 6e 2d 73 79 73 74 65 6d 20 64 69 |...Non-system di|
00000090 73 6b 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 |sk..Press any ke|
000000a0 79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 62 6f 6f 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 |y to reboot.....|
000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s3 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
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Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$

Bootcamp disappeared after updating to Maverics

Hi Community,
I have a little Problem with my Bootcamp Partition after i updated to Maverics. To make it short: It disappeared, I am unable to boot on Windows, and the Bootcamp Partition is not visible in the Harddrive Utility.
This is how it looks like now. Usualy the Bootcamp Partition should be where you can now see the grey block. As you may notice, the harddrive utility recognises Macintosh HD and the grey block as one partition, but it also says that this partition is used for Bootcamp. Repairing the Drive does not work, because it first tells me that the Partitiontable is correct, but when I try it more often then I get this message:
Error: The Partition-Table must be repaired because of a problem in the EFI-Systempartition.
Then when i hit repair, it tells me that the Live-repair is not supportet for this filesystem. I also tried to repair it from the recovery-partition. There it takes a lot longer to get that error and it also tells me that the live repair is not supported.
fdisk shows
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 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 - 1269540800] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1269950440 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1856004096 -   97519616] Win95 FAT-32
There I can see my 4 partitions, the first one should be the recovery-partition, right ?
The little FAT-32 drive is just there to share some data between Windows and Mac OS. This one works just fine.
sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
shows
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       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 1269540800      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1269950440     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1271219976   584784120
1856004096    97519616      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
Dont know what to do next, I dont really need the data on the Bootcamp partition because it all can be reinstalled and the really important data is always stored on the mac partition and backuped by Time Machine, but i would take about a day or more to reinstall all of the programs and do the Updates.
I had Windows 7 on that Bootcamp drive and a few scripts to reach several servers for my business. It was formatted in NTFS with the Windows-Installation-Disk.
I hope somebody has an idea how to proceed with that.

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I could solve it by calling Apple Care.
The solution:
Turn off the machine.
Unplug any device except for a wired keyboard and a mouse. Note: My Logitech G150s Gaming Keyboard didn't work so I had to use an older Logitech diNovo Wireless Keyboard, which worked for me.
Start the machine again and let it boot into Internet Recovery by holding [CMD] + [ALT] + [R] until you see a spinning globe. Depending on your Internet speed it will take some time (I have a 10Mbit/s connection and it took about 10 minutes).
The system now starts the recovery mode. Check the Disk Utility to check your partitions. Afterwards choose "Install" and select a compatible partition to install OS X on. If you have a USB thumb drive, choose the Apple menu, select "Choose Start Volume" (or simular) and select your thumb drive to boot from it.

Bootcamp freeze after partition restart.

I have a mid2010 17-in macbook pro w/ 8gm ram. I used boot camp assistant to partition one of my two internal hard drives. after bootcamp partitions the drive and restarts it freezes on the apple start up screen. What should I do?
I'm trying to install windows 7 (64 bit)

now i ended up with this ... what should i do?
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - 976773168 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (500 GB / 465 GiB) seems too small! (< 570 GB / 531 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
> MS Data                976773119 1113974782 137201664
   Mac HFS                976773124 978042659    1269536
[ Continue ]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 70 GB / 65 GiB
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - 976773168 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (500 GB / 465 GiB) seems too small! (< 570 GB / 531 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
   MS Data                976773119 1113974782 137201664
> Mac HFS                976773124 978042659    1269536
[ Continue ]
HFS+ blocksize=4096, 650 MB / 619 MiB

Bootcamp disappears after updating to mavericks

Hello all, i'm experiencing a lot of problems after updating to OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 especially with bootcamp.
My bootcamp partition is greyed out in disk utility, access bootcamp, i cant seem to mount it, delete the partition via bootcamp assistant.
I guess something went wrong in bootcamp after updating . i've been looking up all over the net trying to see if there are possible solutions to fix this problem.
[REDACTED] sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      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 613765824      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
614175464    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
615445000       1528
615446528 361326592      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
[REDACTED] sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 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 - 613765824] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 614175464 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 615446528 - 361326592] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Help please !

Excellent work to get to this point. Were any of your partitions resized after Windows was already in place?
Your table (and my cheat sheet) looks as following
GPT 3 Start
GPT 3 Size
GPT 3 End
NTFS Start
Byte Offset
NTFS Size
NTFS End
322675264
1269536
323944800
323946496
1696
166287353
490233849
You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message.
Rebuild using start/end offsets from Testdisk DeepSearch using GPT Fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/)
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4   (part 4)
323946496 - Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+166287353 (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
0700     (Windows part type)
P           (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
W         (Write the new GPT)
Y           (Yes! really write the new GPT)
   This will delete and re-write the GPT partition info for /dev/disk0s4.
Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR
Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
P (Print list of parts)
R   (Recover)
H (chooses Hybrid)
Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
Y (Good for GRUB question)
N (part 2 flag)
N (part 3 flag)
Y (part 4 flag make bootable partition)
W (Write the new MBR)
Y    (Yes! write the new MBR)
Reboot
Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?
Test 2 - Can you see your files in Bootcamp Volume?
Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.
If you see a hanging underline cursor at the top left on a black screen, and it does not proceed further, you may need Windows Startup Repair or a tool called EasyBCD.

Solving bootcamp problems after partition

hey guys,
recently i got struck in a bootcamp problem,
this occurred when i installed b-e-t-a of recent os x 'ten' public,
bootcamp icon was not visible in alt-option boot drive selection
panel, but it was visible in startup disk in system preferences,when
i select windows as startup disk a screen saying "no bootable disk
insert and press any key..." used to appear, but later when i found
this Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partitionBy MacTavish_10, July 25, 2014
i solved it to a point in which i can make windows or bootcamp
icon appear in alt-option panel,but when i try to boot into it,
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please help....
macbook pro mid 2012, 500gb hd, windows 8.1, os x 9.4 to 10 b-e -t-a

The Apple Bootcamp implementation uses a Hybrid MBR, which has a limit of 4 partitions. OSX utilities use GPT, while Windows uses MBR scheme.
When you installed you-know-what, it removed the Hybrid MBR and put the entire disk into a Protective MBR as your fdisk shows.
Option 1.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Erase your disk, and re-store from 2 and re-install Windows.
Option 2.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using Winclone. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Erase your disk, and re-store from 2 and re-install Windows via Winclone.
Option 3.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Create a new Hybrid MBR, with appropriate information and bring up Windows, using Startup Repair, if necessary.
Option 4.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Create a new Hybrid MBR (different from Option 3), with appropriate information and bring up Windows, using Startup Repair, if necessary.

Help! Bootcamp issue after partition

Can anyone help me out. I have my bootcamp working normally, than in order to get more space, i have used the disk utility to partition my mac HD one more time. Than i rebooted it to the bootcamp and used Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition to expand the bootcamp HD. It worked perfectly but when i went back to the Mac HD to partition one more time ( i calculated wrong the amount of space i need back there) i noticed that i the bootcamp space in the disk utility did not increased, in fact it changed its name to DISK0S4 and i cant start my mac as a windows. Can anyone help me out.
PS: Sorry for my english, i'm Brazilian.

now i ended up with this ... what should i do?
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - 976773168 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (500 GB / 465 GiB) seems too small! (< 570 GB / 531 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
> MS Data                976773119 1113974782 137201664
   Mac HFS                976773124 978042659    1269536
[ Continue ]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 70 GB / 65 GiB
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - 976773168 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (500 GB / 465 GiB) seems too small! (< 570 GB / 531 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
   MS Data                976773119 1113974782 137201664
> Mac HFS                976773124 978042659    1269536
[ Continue ]
HFS+ blocksize=4096, 650 MB / 619 MiB

When I boot holding option, both Mac and Bootcamp partitions show up, but disappear after 2 seconds.

I recently swapped out my HDD for an SSD in my 2007 MBP. Hardware installed fine. I installed Mountain Lion from a time machine backup (of the same machine). I made the Windows partition in OSX, then installed Windows 7 on the partition it had made. In Windows, I updated Bootcamp to 3.3.
Everything seems to work fine in both OSX and Bootcamp from what I can tell. The problem is, when I boot and hold option to choose my boot drive, both drives appear and then disappear in about 2 seconds. They disappear with a "poof" animation, as if you had dragged an app off of the dock. If I'm fast enough, I can choose the boot drive before it disappears.
I tried once again reinstalling OSX from my last time machine backup (prior to the SSD swap), and the problem persists.
I thought it might have something to do with NTFS 3G and MacFuse, because I'd heard that they cause a bug where the bootcamp partition won't show up under the "startup disk" preferences pane. When I uninstalled said programs, bootcamp showed up under there startup disk options, but the problem persists.
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Actually, this is just getting weirder.
Disregard my edit above. Clicking once doesn't have any effect on the drives. But the drives disappear only coming off of a RESTART from OSX. If I Shut down fully, the problem is solved. Likewise, if the drives have disappeared after a restart and I am forced to turn off the computer by pressing the power button, upon boot up the drives no longer disappear (Regardless of any action I take).
It would seem that the drives are disappearing due to something during the restart process.
Okay: Here are some workflows that might shed light on the situation:
Boot to Mac -> Shut down -> Alt boot : DOES NOT DISAPPEAR
Boot to Mac -> Restart -> Alt boot: DISAPPEARS
Boot to Mac -> Shut Down -> Alt boot -> Boot to Windows -> Shutdown or restart -> Alt boot : DOES NOT DISAPPEAR
Boot to Mac -> Restart -> Alt boot & fast select -> Boot to Windows -> Shutdown or restart -> Alt boot: DISAPPEARS
Boot to Mac -> Restart -> Alt boot & disappears -> Turn power off -> alt boot: DOES NOT DISAPPEAR
So the core culprit is something to do with OSX restart. The method of shutdown during windows doesn't seem to matter.

My RecoveryHD disappeared after re-partitionning (system-Data/BootCamp). How to restore recoveryHD ?

RecoveryHD disappeared after re-partitioning my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) as follows :
SYSTEM (HFS)
DATA (HFS)
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I want to install again RecoveryHD beside the three other partitions; for example like this :
SYSTEM
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DATA
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Greetings all!
So I've had Bootcamp (windows 7 and snow leopard, 125gb of hard drive storage on each) on this MacBook Pro (late 2010) for over 2 years and I decided to upgrade to mountain lion.
As we all know that we can partition the disk under windows into smaller volumes, often labeled as C:, D:, E:, etc. my friend divided the hard drive storage for Windows into C: and G: when I first had windows 7 on my MacBook Pro 2 years ago.
The problem emerged after I installed mountain lion couple days ago. I'm still able to choose the system I want it to run after i press and hold "option" key and it will log on windows without any problem. My windows desktop looks the same as what it was before installing. HOWEVER, my partition G: totally disappeared! Partition C: remains the same. I'm pretty sure that G: is still somewhere in the hard drive because the system tells me that out of 125GB of storage for windows, 50GB is used, which is the size of C:, and available is only 10GB! So the difference of about 60GB must have been taken by the lost partition G:. I tried searching specific files that I have in G: under windows but it returned me no results. So I'm thinking it might be virtual somewhere. The files in G: are very important to me, so I'm looking for help/suggestions here to restore that partition by all means.
Thank you very much for taking the time reading my post and I'm really looking forward to your reply!

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I have installed bootcamp by the bootcamp assistant and worked properly.
Then I have partitioned the OS X 10.8.2 and installed another Mountain Lion System and I have got two MAC boot options and Bootcamp disappeared from the Option menu. However, Bootcamp still remained in the Startup Disk in the System Preferences. When I tried to boot Bootcamp using the Startup Disk it did not boot and received a message that there is no bootable device. I have not lost any data and can read Bootcamp partition from both OS X systems. Please advise how can I boot Windows / Bootcamp again? Thank you.

Recommendation 1: Use a VM for this. It's essentially a giant C.F. to do this with native booting, and is potentially fragile.
But if you're going to ignore that and do this anyway, realizing that it can break anytime in particular with OS upgrades, and that it's very difficult to impossible to resize the three volumes once you've installed the systems:
1. create three partitions, setting each to be the size for OS X copy 1, copy 2, and Windows respectively. The Windows partition needs to be set to MS-DOS format (actually FAT32) which later in the Windows installer you'll reformat as NTFS. Do not use Boot Camp Assistant to resize/partition the disk, it simply won't work for this use case.
2. install OS X copy 1
3. install OS X copy 3
4. Use gdisk (available at sourceforge) which is a command line only application, to create a new hybrid MBR adding only the last partition (Windows) to the hybrid MBR and setting it to be bootable. As a concequence you will not be able to see/share either OS X volume from within Windows. The Windows NTFS volume will be visible from within OS X.
5. Install Windows to the only partition its installer should see (confirm size), you'll need to format it NTFS first, and I suggest using the fast format option if available.

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I have installed the latest bootcamp 10.8.3 but it quit unexpectedly after partition. Please let me know how to solve it.

I have the same problem with a 2012 MBA 10.8.3. Bootcamp assistant quits unexpectedly before partitioning the usb drive. Any suggestions?

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I was happily running ML, Win 7 and VMware Fusion on a MBP Mid 2010 then decided to upgrade to Mavericks. After sucessfully performing the upgrade and updating Fusion to the latest version I found that the Win 7 VM would throw an "operation failed on rdisk0s4 " after around 10 minutes. I can boot into Win 7 and it runs fine but won't in the VM. I thought it may be a Fusion problem so I installed Parallels and it has the same issue. I'm assuming the Mavericks upgrade did something to the Bootcamp partition. Disk Utility shows the Bootcamp partition and everything looks ok. I did notice that in Disk Utility the partition is named Bootcamp but after the VM failure it is named rdisk0s4.
Could the partition name be part of the issue here? i've seen some issues with others losing the Bootcamp partition from the boot menu after a Mavericks upgrade but not this problem.
I have a Winclone backup of the Win 7 partition but it's not that recent and now Winclone fails on the creation of a clone process. Somehow I don't think restoring a Winclone backup is going to sort this out. I'd appreciate some expert opinions on this problem.
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The size of the MS Data should be roughly the sum of the 'gap' (107,422,440) and GPT 4 (86,753,280), which is roughly 90+ GB. Your current disk0s4 is about 45GB. In Testdisk you should skip the smaller 6174 and 28800 or similar sized entries.

If i install microsoft office after partitioning my hard drive for windows, will it be available on both sides of the partition?

If i install microsoft office after partitioning my hard drive for windows, will it be available on both sides of the partition? Will it be universal for the computer or would i have to install it on both operating systems? Or, if I install office BEFORE partitioning, will it be available on both platforms after i partition?

If I understand your questions correctly, then I'm inclined to say no. Office for Windows and Office for Mac are two completely different applications. if you run via BootCamp, only one partition will boot.
If you want to run Mac and Windows at the same time, you could do what I did:
Get Parallels
Install Windows as VM on top of Parallels
Install Office in Windows
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