Cannot boot in Windows/Boot Camp anymore

Question

Hello.
I'm Running OSX 10.10 Yosemite and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.
I had Bootcamp working pretty well in my MacbookPro late 2013. But I needed a bit more space into the Win7/BootCamp partition. So I went to Disk Utility and reduced the "Macintosh HD" partition and applied the modifications. Until this, no problem.
I restarted my Mac with ALT key to boot into windows and assign the unallocated space to the Win7/Bootcamp partition. I used "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition Free" in windows to allocate the space to the Win7/BootCamp partition. The program "said" it needed to reboot so that the changes could be applied because "Drive C is being used". And so I did.
When booting (in Win7/Bootcamp partition), Minitool partition wizard began making the changes, but right after they were done I got the message that "...changes were made to the partition..." and "...no bootable device...". So now, I cannot boot into Win7.
Also, if it helps, I followed this tutorial on youtube that seemed to work for the "youtuber" -- http://youtu.be/zhkdOLXT6Eg
So, anyone know how to proceed so that I can keep my partitions as is, whilst fully restoring normal BootCamp functionality ?
Thank you,
Ricardo Monteiro

Answer 1

The NTFS Header looks correct, which is surprising. It seems to be the old NTFS header.
From your current GPT output, you have
546998272  195733504      4   
742731776  234373120      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 
From your Fdisk output you have
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254  63 [ 546998272 -  430106624] HPFS/QNX/AUX 
This is what recommend. Download GPT Fdisk from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/.
1. Delete the old entry and create a new entry at GPT#4.
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
p
d
4
n
4
546998272
430106624
0700
p
w
y
Here is an example of the delete/new...
Command (? for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 4
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (4-128, default 4): 4
First sector (34-1954210086, default = 1454210080) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 1454211072
Last sector (1454211072-1954210086, default = 1954210086) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 1954209791
Current type is 'Apple HFS/HFS+'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = AF00): 0700
Changed type of partition to 'Microsoft basic data'
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk0: 1954210120 sectors, 931.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 6ED0C429-00D1-4759-B50E-04B6FB80D0E3
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1954210086
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1293 sectors (646.5 KiB)
Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640      1452940543   692.6 GiB   AF00  Customer
   3      1452940544      1454210079   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
   4      1454211072      1954209791   238.4 GiB   0700  Microsoft basic data
2. This is a tedious process and you want to check after the second 'p'rint command that it looks reasonable, before the 'w'rite and 'y'es to confirm.
3. You will need to reboot after the change, because the disk you are booted from is the one being modified. Reboot will rebuild disk0s4 using the start/end you entered.
4. Run the dd command - sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C and check that the first line contains "R.NTFS".
5. Once you have a working GPT#4, a new hybrid MBR needs to be created which will overwrite what you see in your Fdisk output. This is also done using GPT Fdisk (Gdisk). Your numbers will look different than what are in the following example. In most cases, you will use the default except entry 4, which should have a 'y' for bootable flag.
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk0: 490234752 sectors, 233.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 59BDFEEB-1EB4-4529-94FE-3CBC2C3CD513
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 490234718
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2604 sectors (1.3 MiB)
Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EF
   2          409640       401060383   191.0 GiB   AF05  Macintosh HD
   3       401060384       402329919   619.9 MiB   AB00  Re
   4       402331648       490233848   41.9 GiB    0700  Microsoft basic data
Command (? for help): r
Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h
WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,
just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will
be untouched.
Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be
added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 2 3 4
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y
Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): AF
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n
Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): AB
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n
Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y
Recovery/transformation command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
You should reboot or remove the drive.
The operation has completed successfully.
6. a. Test 1 - Can you see your Bootcamp volume in Finder.
    b. Test 2 - Can you files in the Bootcamp volume?
    c. Test 3 - Can you see Bootcamp in your System Preferences -> Startup Disk.
    d. Test 4 - If Test 1-3 are successful, select Bootcamp and click on Restart. You may need Windows startup repair, if you see a hanging underline cursor at the top left corner of your screen. In most cases, it is not required.