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Boot Camp assistant cannot make partition BOOTCAMP as start up disk

Hello

Boot Camp assistant can partition my Disk . I see the BOOTCAMP internal partition disk and OSXRESERVED for Installer. Also able to generate and run Installer drive (OSXRESERVED). However during installing cannot see my partition BOOTCAMP disk then Installing fails after entering product key step. So internal partition it generates with the name BOOTCAMP cannot be seen as a start up disk I guess. What is wrong ? What should I do? Please help me .. Thank you...



i have MacBook Pro 13" (2017) , macOS 10.13

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Posted on Mar 25, 2020 5:47 AM

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Mar 25, 2020 10:01 AM in response to Loner T

Yes I can boot back . After booting back MacOS, Installer driver also cannot be seen anymore.


The output is :

/dev/disk0 (internal):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme             251.0 GB  disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk1     179.0 GB  disk0s2

  3:    Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP        71.7 GB  disk0s4


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +179.0 GB  disk1

                 Physical Store disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      119.0 GB  disk1s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         22.3 MB  disk1s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        514.9 MB  disk1s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           1.1 GB   disk1s4


Thank you.

Mar 27, 2020 9:59 AM in response to Loner T

I did what you said. But Now BCA gives error while copying Windows installation files. It stops while copying sources directory.

This is just right after error, before roll back partitioning starts:

/dev/disk0 (internal):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme             251.0 GB  disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk1     181.0 GB  disk0s2

  3:    Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED       8.0 GB   disk0s3

  4:    Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP        61.7 GB  disk0s4


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +181.0 GB  disk1

                 Physical Store disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      120.0 GB  disk1s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         22.3 MB  disk1s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        514.9 MB  disk1s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           1.1 GB   disk1s4


Is it something wrong with OSXRESERVED (created as 8 GB Volume not 16 GB ) or is there sth else?


Thank you ...

Boot Camp assistant cannot make partition BOOTCAMP as start up disk

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