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I was following this amazing guide on how to install Windows 7 without Bootcamp and got stuck at step 5. It should create files, but it didn't. I got the following result in Terminal:

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After doing what David told me to do, I noticed it created the partition on 'disk0s5', or at least it has this as its identifier.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE           IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB         disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB       disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS HDD                     749.7 GB       disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB       disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                249.5 GB       disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE           IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        +2.0 GB         disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 BCSS                    2.0 GB         disk1s1

Is it alright to just switch things around and replace every Terminal command containing 'disk0s4' with 'disk0s5', so it locates the right partition?

Thanks in advance. :)

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  • The instructions you are refer to install Windows on partition 4 of disk 0. In your case, you do not have a fourth partition on disk 0. This was suppose to be created in step 1. I suggest you run the Terminal application commands diskutil list, sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 and sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 and post the output to your question. Also, what is the model/year of your Mac. – David Anderson Sep 14 '16 at 00:15
  • I used Disk Utility to create a partition, just like the guide told me. I will update my post, as there is something strange going on - it created a partition on disk 5. – HaloLamp Sep 14 '16 at 08:42
  • Restart the Mac and see if the Identifiers change. – David Anderson Sep 14 '16 at 08:58
  • @HaloLamp Please don't post text output in your shell as screenshot! – klanomath Sep 15 '16 at 05:03

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Usually the OS X operating system is synchronized with the values stored in the GUID Partition Table (GPT). In other words, partition 4 in the table for disk0 would be be identified as /dev/disk0s4. In your case, the identifier is /dev/disk0s5. The easiest way to resynchronize is to restart the Mac.

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