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Lost disk space after deleting bootcamp partitions

My drive is 1 TB, i try to install windows and the installation fail.


I remove partitions manually from Disk Utility and now I lost 100 GB, that was the size of the partition I was creating for Windows 10.

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 24, 2019 6:21 AM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2019 12:00 PM

I follow this steps last night in the end:


1.- Create a Time Machine backup.

2.- Restart in recovery mode.

3.- Erase disk.

4.- Create TMP partition in order to recover lost disk space.

5.- Erase disk again, now with 1 TB :-)

6.- Reinstall MacOs.

7.- Install Windows from Bootcamp, took 15 minutes.

8.- Migrate backup from Time Machine.

9.- Done, everything works now.


Thanks for the help.

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Jul 25, 2019 12:00 PM in response to Loner T

I follow this steps last night in the end:


1.- Create a Time Machine backup.

2.- Restart in recovery mode.

3.- Erase disk.

4.- Create TMP partition in order to recover lost disk space.

5.- Erase disk again, now with 1 TB :-)

6.- Reinstall MacOs.

7.- Install Windows from Bootcamp, took 15 minutes.

8.- Migrate backup from Time Machine.

9.- Done, everything works now.


Thanks for the help.

Jul 24, 2019 9:17 AM in response to andreslee

andreslee wrote:

My drive is 1 TB, i try to install windows and the installation fail.

Did it fail during partitioning?

I remove partitions manually from Disk Utility and now I lost 100 GB, that was the size of the partition I was creating for Windows 10.

Removing BCA-created partitions via DU is not supported. BCA should be allowed to cleanup.


Run


diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk2 0g


and post the output.

Jul 24, 2019 10:09 AM in response to andreslee

Post the output of


diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 limits

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1s2 limits


Here is an example for a single-disk APFS Container.

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 limits

Resize limits for APFS Physical Store partition disk0s2:

  Current Physical Store partition size on map:   1.0 TB (1000240963584 Bytes)

  Minimum (constrained by file/snapshot usage):   374.9 GB (374937223168 Bytes)

  Recommended minimum (if used with macOS):       385.7 GB (385674641408 Bytes)

  Maximum (constrained by partition map space):   1.0 TB (1000240963584 Bytes)


Lost disk space after deleting bootcamp partitions

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