bootcamp windows recovery repair

Hello

I am running Windows 7 and OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 on the Boot Camp partition. Against my better judgment, I expanded memory for Windows... Must I say more? Yes, I'm a model.  By reading the instructions of the lonely T to others, I was able to restore the ability to see the Windows partition at startup, but all I get is the flashing without windows cursor. I ran the following commands once more by Loner T:

1 diskutil list

2. sudo disk/dev /.

3 sudo had v - r - show/dev /.

Here is the result:

Last login: Friday, February 12 05:11:07 on console

: ~ list of $ diskutil

/ dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme * 3.0 to disk0

1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 1.4 TB disk0s2

3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

4: Apple_HFS 700.6 Untitled GB disk0s4

5: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 113.0 GB disk0s5

6: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh 801,4 GB disk0s6 HD

7: disk0s7 Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134,2 MB

/ dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

#: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD + 2.2 TB disk1

Logical volume on disk0s2, disk0s6

333D00F2-54B7-4666-A816-666ACA578F1D

Unencrypted

: ~ list of cs $ diskutil

CoreStorage groups of logical volumes (1 found)

|

+ Logical Volume - Group 820AD255-8960-4733-A479-06C0061C5D64

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: online

Dimensions: 2185844961280 B (2.2 to)

Free space: 0 (0 B) B

|

+-< physical="" volume="">

|   ----------------------------------------------------

|   Index: 0

|   Disc: disk0s2

|   Status: online

|   Dimensions: 1384408420352 B (1.4 TB)

|

+-< physical="" volume="">

|   ----------------------------------------------------

|   Index: 1

|   Disc: disk0s6

|   Status: online

|   Dimensions: 801436540928 B (801.4 GB)

|

+ -> 9CE7029C-1252-4E3A-91DD-05539BD2CDD8 family of Logical Volume

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

Encryption type: no

|

+--> Logical Volume 333D00F2-54B7-4666-A816-666ACA578F1D

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

Disc: disk1

Status: online

Size (Total): 2185224192000 B (2.2 to)

Reversible: no

Name: Macintosh HD

Volume name: Macintosh HD

Content indicator: Apple_HFS

: ~ $ sudo had - vv - r see the/dev/disk0

Password:

See the TPG: / dev/disk0: mediasize = 3000592982016; SectorSize = 512; blocks = 5860533168

See the TPG: / dev/disk0: MBR suspicious to sector 0

See the TPG: / dev/disk0: Malformed MBR at sector 0

See the TPG: / dev/disk0: Pri GPT to sector 1

See the TPG: / dev/disk0: GPT Sec at sector 5860533167

start index size summary

0           1         MBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 table GPT Pri

34 6

40 409600 1 part TPG - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 2703922696 2 part TPG - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

2704332336 1269536 3 part TPG - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

2705601872 1368398512 4 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

4074000384 262144

4074262528 220700672 5 part TPG - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

4294963200 2040

4294965240 1565305744 6 part TPG - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

5860270984 262144 7 part TPG - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

5860533128 7

5860533135 32 table dry GPT

5860533167 1 dry GPT header

: ~ $ sudo disk/dev/disk0

Disk: geometry / dev/disk0: 97451/255/63 [1565565872 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

From end

#: cyl hd s - cyl hd s id [Start - size]

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

1: EA 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1-4294967294]

02:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

03:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

* 04:07 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] HPFS/QNX / TO THE

Could someone help me please? I see the BOOTCAMP drive with all data intact on the Mac side. do not know if this is not salvageable... Thanks in advance!

Can you post the output of

sudo dd if = / dev/rdisk0s5 account = 1 2 >/dev/null | hexdump - C

This will show us the first block of your Windows Partition. Out of Yoru Fdisk indicates that the MBR must be rebuilt using Fdisk TPG - https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ .

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