Booted from external "MacOS Clone" created earlier with an earlier edition of these instructions. Verify the new internal SSD and format: System Information app - NVME section: Generic SSD Controller: INTEL SSDPEKNU020TZ: Capacity: 2.05 TB (2,048,408,248,320 bytes) TRIM Support: Yes Model: INTEL SSDPEKNU020TZ Revision: 002C Serial Number: redacted Link Width: x4 Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) Removable Media: No S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: EFI: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) File System: MS-DOS FAT32 BSD Name: disk0s1 Content: EFI Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B disk0s2: Capacity: 2.05 TB (2,048,198,492,160 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s2 Content: Apple_APFS frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list internal /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: *2.0 TB disk0 frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil info disk0 Device Identifier: disk0 Device Node: /dev/disk0 Whole: Yes Part of Whole: disk0 Device / Media Name: INTEL SSDPEKNU020TZ Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system) Mounted: Not applicable (no file system) File System: None Content (IOContent): None OS Can Be Installed: No Media Type: Generic Protocol: PCI-Express SMART Status: Verified Disk Size: 2.0 TB (2048408248320 Bytes) (exactly 4000797360 512-Byte-Units) Device Block Size: 512 Bytes Media OS Use Only: No Media Read-Only: No Volume Read-Only: Not applicable (no file system) Device Location: Internal Removable Media: Fixed Solid State: Yes Virtual: No Hardware AES Support: No frpmacpro:~ frizzo$ diskutil partitionDisk disk0 apfs "Macintosh HD" 0 Started partitioning on disk0 Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Waiting for partitions to activate Formatting disk0s2 as APFS with name Macintosh HD Mounting disk Finished partitioning on disk0 frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list internal /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩ 2.0 TB disk0s2 /dev/disk3 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +2.0 TB disk3 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh HD⁩ 622.6 KB disk3s1 frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list external /dev/disk1 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *960.2 GB disk1 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk2⁩ 830.0 GB disk1s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data ⁨BOOTCAMP⁩ 130.0 GB disk1s3 /dev/disk2 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +830.0 GB disk2 Physical Store disk1s2 1: APFS Volume ⁨Clone MacOS⁩ 15.4 GB disk2s1 2: APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.4 GB disk2s1s1 3: APFS Volume ⁨Clone MacOS - Data⁩ 400.0 GB disk2s2 4: APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩ 620.0 MB disk2s3 5: APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩ 1.1 GB disk2s4 6: APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩ 1.1 MB disk2s5 frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil mount disk2s1 Volume Clone MacOS on disk2s1 mounted frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil apfs listsnapshots disk2s1 | grep "+--" | cut -d " " -f 2 173CBA59-B437-43E0-9904-B28B2F714F0B Note: Booted System Volume (source): "Clone MacOS" == /dev/disk2s1 Empty SSD APFS Container (target): "Container disk3" == /dev/disk0s2 Snapshot to clone: 173CBA59-B437-43E0-9904-B28B2F714F0B frpmacpro:~ $ time sudo asr restore --no-personalization --erase \ --source /dev/disk2s1 \ --target /dev/disk0s2 \ --toSnapshot 173CBA59-B437-43E0-9904-B28B2F714F0B Password: Validating target...done Validating source...done Erase contents of /dev/disk3 ()? [ny]: y Replicating ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100 Replicating ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100 Restored target device is /dev/disk3s2. Restore completed successfully. real 26m45.808s user 3m53.905s sys 4m53.376s frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list internal /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩ 2.0 TB disk0s2 /dev/disk3 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +2.0 TB disk3 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume ⁨Clone MacOS - Data⁩ 400.9 GB disk3s1 2: APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh HD⁩ 15.4 GB disk3s2 3: APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩ 620.0 MB disk3s3 4: APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩ 1.1 GB disk3s4 frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil mount disk3s1 frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil renameVolume disk3s1 "Macintosh HD - Data" frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil unmount disk3s1 frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil mount disk3s2 frpmacpro:~ $ sudo bless -mount "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" -setBoot frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil unmount disk3s2 Bootcamp frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list external physical /dev/disk1 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *960.2 GB disk1 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk2⁩ 830.0 GB disk1s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data ⁨BOOTCAMP⁩ 130.0 GB disk1s3 frpmacpro:~ $ diskutil list internal physical /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩ 2.0 TB disk0s2 Resize the APFS container, reduce it -130 GB == 1918g and create the BOOTCAMP partition to fill the drive. frpmacpro:~ $ sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 1918g MS-DOS BOOTCAMP 0 Started APFS operation Aligning shrink delta to 130,198,495,232 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 1,917,999,996,928 bytes Determined the minimum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 423,993,802,752 bytes Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk3 The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2 Verifying storage system Performing fsck_apfs -n -x /dev/disk0s2 Checking the container superblock Checking the EFI jumpstart record Checking the space manager Checking the space manager free queue trees Checking the object map Checking volume /dev/rdisk3s1 Checking the APFS volume superblock Checking the object map Checking the snapshot metadata tree Checking the snapshot metadata Checking the document ID tree Checking the fsroot tree Checking the extent ref tree Verifying volume object map space The volume /dev/rdisk3s1 appears to be OK Checking volume /dev/rdisk3s2 Checking the APFS volume superblock Checking the object map Checking the snapshot metadata tree Checking the snapshot metadata Checking snapshot 1 of 1 (com.apple.os.update-CB12C14C05552C076D856AD12B102E53CCB8AB4E163547432B0577BE3AE6B5E9) Checking the fsroot tree Checking the file extent tree Checking the extent ref tree Verifying volume object map space The volume /dev/rdisk3s2 appears to be OK Checking volume /dev/rdisk3s3 Checking the APFS volume superblock Checking the object map Checking the snapshot metadata tree Checking the snapshot metadata Checking the fsroot tree Checking the extent ref tree Verifying volume object map space The volume /dev/rdisk3s3 appears to be OK Checking volume /dev/rdisk3s4 Checking the APFS volume superblock Checking the object map Checking the snapshot metadata tree Checking the snapshot metadata Checking the fsroot tree Checking the extent ref tree Verifying volume object map space The volume /dev/rdisk3s4 appears to be OK Verifying allocated space The container /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK Storage system check exit code is 0 Shrinking APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 2,048,198,492,160 to 1,917,999,996,928 bytes Shrinking APFS data structures Shrinking partition Modifying partition map 512 bytes per physical sector /dev/rdisk0s3: 254229824 sectors in 3972341 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=3746504704 drv=0x80 bsec=254291968 bspf=31034 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6 Mounting disk 1 new disk created or changed due to APFS operation Disk from APFS operation: disk0s3 Finished APFS operation frpmacpro:~ frizzo$ diskutil list internal /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0 1: EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩ 1.9 TB disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data ⁨BOOTCAMP⁩ 130.2 GB disk0s3 /dev/disk3 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.9 TB disk3 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh HD - Data⁩ 398.1 GB disk3s1 2: APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh HD⁩ 15.4 GB disk3s2 3: APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩ 620.0 MB disk3s3 4: APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩ 1.1 GB disk3s4 run winclone and do a volume-to-volume clone. MIND THE NAMING, CHECK THE SIZES... when asked to install drivers, unmount and then mount the bootcamp volume as root first. (using terminal) sudo diskutil unmount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP sudo diskutil mount disk0s3 continue in winclone wait for completion quit Winclone shutdown unplug external clone ssd power-on, hold Option at chime select Macintosh HD boot volume verify MacOS boot log-in verify account, settings, apps… reboot hold Option at chime select BOOTCAMP volume verify win11 boot log-in verify windows config, license, and apps. shutdown celebrate