Parallels can't find installed, working W10 Boot Camp partition

I would like to use Parallels to keep native Mac programs open at the same time (let’s be honest, it’s 100% for iMessage). That’s a good idea with backing up the current Boot Camp and restoring it in Parallels. I’ve been using the Windows Boot Camp for a few months now and just know it will be time intensive to make sure everything is configured appropriately again after (DropBox, work apps, etc.).

As you’re spot on with all the articles posted about this being for legacy versions, I’ll reach out to Parallels and will see what they say.

I have not installed any third-party NTFS products on this MBP. I tried mounting the partition as it was mentioned in a troubleshooting forum post to mount the partition if it was not showing in Parallels as a source option.

Windows does work properly when booted through Boot Camp. I use it in Windows 99% of the time for 10+ hours on working days; never had an issue.

joshuas-mbp:~ pentaroot$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                1.5 TB     disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            67.1 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.3 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

I had sleep and hibernate options available, but only ever used sleep on occasion. I would consistently shut down my laptop at the end of the workday. I have now disabled both hibernate and sleep.

In the console logs, there are 0 messages found containing 'ntfs'.

I did both a SMC and NVRAM reset. I am still not able to mount the NTFS partition in Disk Utility or through terminal by using "sudo mount_ntfs /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/" (BOOTCAMP is the name of the NTFS partition and a directory was created in Volumes to test mounting in terminal).

Joshuas-MacBook-Pro:~ pentaroot$ diskutil info disk0s3
   Device Identifier:         disk0s3
   Device Node:               /dev/disk0s3
   Whole:                     No
   Part of Whole:             disk0


   Volume Name:               BOOTCAMP
   Mounted:                   No


   Partition Type:            Microsoft Basic Data
   File System Personality:   NTFS
   Type (Bundle):             ntfs
   Name (User Visible):       Windows NT File System (NTFS)


   OS Can Be Installed:       No
   Media Type:                Generic
   Protocol:                  PCI-Express
   SMART Status:              Verified
   Volume UUID:               868C2646-D122-438C-AE45-BCD38EA2327E
   Disk / Partition UUID:     279B85F6-BA27-4E0C-A4B6-15962A4A2CFE
   Partition Offset:          500315455488 Bytes (122147328 4096-Byte-Device-Blocks)


   Disk Size:                 1.5 TB (1500795371520 Bytes) (exactly 2931240960 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         4096 Bytes


   Volume Total Space:        0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:         0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)


   Read-Only Media:           No
   Read-Only Volume:          Not applicable (not mounted)


   Device Location:           Internal
   Removable Media:           Fixed


   Solid State:               Yes
   Hardware AES Support:      Yes


Joshuas-MacBook-Pro:~ pentaroot$ 

I uninstalled Parallels last night and have not reinstalled it. I do not believe there were any additional utilities installed. How do you use the Apple specific NTFS driver to mount it? Just go to Disk Utility and mount from there (that doesn't work)?

Thanks for helping so much with this. I'm still waiting to hear back from Parallels Support.

Joshuas-MacBook-Pro:~ pentaroot$ mount -v
/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s4 on /private/var/vm (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
Joshuas-MacBook-Pro:~ pentaroot$

After a remote session with Parallels support and chatting with Apple support, I ended up having to erase the Boot Camp partition and reinstall macOS. After all was said and done, the option in Parallels to set up from Boot Camp appeared. Thanks for your help.