Lost bootcamp partition after you use diskutil to resize

Hello

I was little Yosemite when I resized (shrunk) my partition apple to increase the size of my bootcamp partition using disk utility. I studied the problem and understand the limits of partition are not correct on my bootcamp partition.  Using this thread as my main guide

https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/6465316?TSTART=0

I went through the steps and got the boot to a read error trying to start on the bootcamp partition.

In osx, disk utility displays the bootcamp partition, but it is always grayed out and right-click to mount displays an error when you try to mount.  I understand it, conceptually, what I do, but I don't know enough details to understand what I'm doing wrong.  Here is information and links to screenshots of error messages, etc.   I would greatly appreciate any idea. Former Republic Yugoslav, the machine is a retina MBP 15 "with a 500g SSD

This link will show you the screenhots of the controls required for the diagnosis.

http://www.lewallens.com/2016/03/lost-bootdisk-info.html

In addition, I had bootcamp windows installation USB key that I was going to start, from the discussions around the read error.  I couldn't accomplish that, as when started the USB, the display depending on whether you get after you choose the language and keyboard is not the screen where you can choose the Startup Repair, but the first screen of the windows installation.  Interestingly, with the same USB stick plugged into a mac mini without bootcamp partition, boot/repair screen comes up

Thanks in advance.

Ric Lewallen

the discussions I've read:

http://Apple.StackExchange.com/questions/180352/Bootcamp-wont-start-after-resizi ng-partition

https://discussions.Apple.com/message/29341803#29341803

https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/7095970?start=0 & tstart = 0

https://discussions.Apple.com/message/29341803#29341803

https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/6705161?start=0 & tstart = 0

This article may help:

How to resize my bootcamp partition without deleting chtol

However, according to Apple, you may use any software other than Boot Camp to resize the partition.

Boot Camp: resize the Windows partition (told to uninstall Windows and resize all reinstall)

Boot Camp: install Windows on your Mac (also indicates that you can not resize the partition once Windows is installed)

In addition, Windows and Mac OS X must be backed up separately. Time Machine does not back up windows partition, so if you ever have a problem and the need to restore your computer, you would lose the Windows files.

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