Hi,
This is on an OS X Macbook Air with a Boot Camp partition
I had a working Win7 boot camp partition that was too small. Being lazy, I googled how to resize it and got a guide for GParted. I successfully took some space from the OS X partition and made it free, moved it around and added it to the NTFS partition. Then I got the dreaded "Missing Operating System" message. I then tried "gptsync /dev/sda" and it suggested a fix, I accepted. Still nothing.
Now, I decided to use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the boot camp partition and then when it came to reclaiming the space all into the OS X partition, it failed. I cannot resize the partition. I can't use the free space. How do I get it so I can just use the ~40GB free space to re-install Windows 8.1 (usb with tools ready to go).
Cheers
This is on an OS X Macbook Air with a Boot Camp partition
I had a working Win7 boot camp partition that was too small. Being lazy, I googled how to resize it and got a guide for GParted. I successfully took some space from the OS X partition and made it free, moved it around and added it to the NTFS partition. Then I got the dreaded "Missing Operating System" message. I then tried "gptsync /dev/sda" and it suggested a fix, I accepted. Still nothing.
Now, I decided to use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the boot camp partition and then when it came to reclaiming the space all into the OS X partition, it failed. I cannot resize the partition. I can't use the free space. How do I get it so I can just use the ~40GB free space to re-install Windows 8.1 (usb with tools ready to go).
Cheers
Code:
localhost:~ q$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
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 81698776
82108416 153600000 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
235708416 1267712 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236976128 2015
236978143 32 Sec GPT table
236978175 1 Sec GPT header
localhost:~ q$ diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 limits
For device disk0s2 Macintosh HD:
Current size: 78.6 GB (78643200000 Bytes)
Minimum size: 54.1 GB (54125408256 Bytes)
Maximum size: 78.6 GB (78643200000 Bytes)