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Screwed up Mac partition with working Windows- Please help!


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The other day, I resized the mac partition while having a functioning Bootcamp-partition. As if that wasn't enough, I also upgraded Yosemite to El Capitan Beta 1.

El Capitan worked, but when I discovered that the Bootcamp-partition didn't show up in the boot options, I tried to fix it with testdisk, and even gdisk. The latter, which totally screwed up my mac-partition. 

 

I got the question-mark when I rebooted, so nothing was functioning. 

So I installed Windows 10 and erased the bootcamp-partition. 

I can live with bootcamp-files gone, but not the Mac-files gone. 

 

Now, I've installed Mac onto an USB. This is very, very slow, but it works. 

 

The problem is that according to Disk Utility, my Mac-partition, disk0s1, is in exFat. I have no idea why.

Thus, the original Mac-partition does not show up from either of the OS:es installed, more than disk0s1. 

 

My logs

 

TESTDISK:

 

 

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015

Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>

http://www.cgsecurity.org

 

Disk /dev/disk0 - 121 GB / 113 GiB - 236978176 sectors (RO)

Partition Start End Size in sectors

P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI]

D Mac HFS 409640 147093543 146683904 

D MS Data 61460521 149088256 87627736

D Mac HFS 14781872 149088255 1269536

D MS Data 149088256 236715991 87627736

D Mac HFS 235708600 236978135 1269536

 

I think the "EFI System" belongs to Windows.

The first Mac HFS is the partition I'm trying to save. (Unable to list files)

The second Mac HFS is the recovery of the Mac, which is also corrupt.

 

I don't know what I should do next. Didn't dare to "write partition structure to disk" after I clicked enter. Should I?

 

 

TERMINAL

 

 

1sudo gdisk -l /dev/disk0

 

123s-MacBook-Pro:~ a123$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/disk0

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0

 

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: MBR only

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

 

Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use?

1 - MBR

2 - GPT

3 - Create blank GPT

 

Your answer: 2

Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR.

Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 4C6D1D10-9602-47E3-921A-73EBD34F9700

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 262157 sectors (128.0 MiB)

 

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 147818719 70.3 GiB AF05 Macintosh HD

3 147818720 149088255 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 149088256 236715991 41.8 GiB 0700 DOS_FAT_32_Untitled_2

 

 

 

2sudo gtp -r -vv show disk0

 

123s-MacBook-Pro:~ a123$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

 

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

 

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

 

Password:

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: disk0: MBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: error: bogus map

gpt show: unable to open device 'disk0': No such file or directory

 

 

 

3. sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

 

123s-MacBook-Pro:~ a123$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: 07 0 0 2 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 149088255] HPFS/QNX/AUX

*2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 149088256 - 87627736] HPFS/QNX/AUX

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 

 

 

What can I do to repair this corrupted partition? 

Thank you very much in advance.

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What I would try is going into disk utility from internet recovery and creating another partition on your HDD. Then, Install OS X Yosemite to it and once you boot into it, transfer all the files from the non-working El Captain partition to the working Yosemite partition. 

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