Partition messed up bootcamp

Hey,
Looking through all the topics I've seen that after creating a partition and removing it, bootcamp won't show up when rebooting but still shows up in my disk utility. I'm willing to put the effort and time to get my bootcamp back up working. My windows is 8.1 and I'm on a macbook pro retina with OS X 10.9.5. Hopefully someone here can't direct me through getting this fixed.
Thanks

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I plan to reinstall MacOSX (from my startup disc).
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I'm worried that maybe it is just assumed that reinstalling OSX will destroy the old Bootcamp setup?
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- I restarted with cmd-v held down to enter verbose mode and see what's up. seemed to become hung up after printing " Rebuilding catalog B-tree"
- I rebooted with cmd-option-p-r keys held down, to reset pram and nvram. no change.
- I restarted with cmd-s held down so I could type something at the command line. I entered the suggested "/sbin/fsck -fy" text.
here is quick snapshot of what it displayed, when this failed:
http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/iMacHOME-commandLine_s.jpg
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http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/imac-verifyDiskFAIL_s.jpg
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http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/homeMac-partitions_s.jpg
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Really just posting here to see if anyone has advice. and to help anyone else who might be in same spot of confusion.
Thanks for any tips.

#1 You need a more robust program to fix the Mac boot drive like Alsoft Disk Warrior.
I stopped bothering with using Apple First Aid.
#2 You can lose Windows
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HFS has its weaknesses. You probably continued using OS X after freezes or other problems.
Ideal is to reformat and restore both.
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Reformat is the best way going forward.
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Hello, I hope this is the correct area to start this discussion.
I'm trying to figure out how I can install windows via boot camp, without reformatting my HDD (or use of installation CD).
I'm currently on tour around the U.S., and my installation disks are at my home address.
As a roady photographer, access to my computer and Photoshop is essential to me, and its very important that i can continue to use my mac pro through out the remainder of this year, it is how I make most of my living wile out on tour, so I hope this explains how important it is that i do this right the first time.
Its kind of overwhelming, and I don't know where to start.
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I want my OS to run full power flawlessly without the stress of virtual machine, and i want Windows to run full power flawlessly without stressing out OS,
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Clone, then Boot camp?
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Thank you.

you are fine.
Upgrades from 10.6 to Lion with existing XP or Vista present was/is/can be an issue.
Lion 10.7.0 and Boot Camp 4.0.0 were not working (why? oh, "never use dot zero?)
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CCC now can clone that partition as well as your HFS volumes.
Lack of contiguous free (unfragmented) storage, with no "locked" files or that fragment the free space.
Shrinking the HFS volume and then stretch it back out to consolidate to get around the free space issue.
Not realizing just how large to make Windows volume (double best estimate rule) or aim for 60GB.
XP only needed 10-16GB or 32GB at top usually. Microsoft and Apple have this "16GB for 32-bit Windows 7" is the OS size, not the size of the partition needed to function (20GB for the base OS for 64-bit).
Add in page, hibernation, temp, cache, and that 10GB just for 'shuffle" files around during updates.
SSDs need space to allow for good background garbage collection and TRIM (a month's worth of writes is a good rule there).
Not documented: you need to get the audio driver on your own along with current graphic driver after you install the OS and Apple drivers.
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willrjhan wrote:
I'm attempting to load Windows 7 home premium 64-bit on an early 2011 15" MBP with Bootcamp 5.0.2 and am getting the error "Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning disk." No other information leads me to understand the problem. Does anyone know anything about this error?
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cool, i'll use buy it then)
so basically:
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2. install boot runner
3. reboot
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