Boot Camp assistant cannot make partition BOOTCAMP as start up disk

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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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Answer 1

bahanur Author

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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.

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Answer 2

bahanur Author

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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 ...

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Answer 3

Loner T

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Mar 27, 2020 1:25 PM in response to bahanur

W10 1909 will not work with FAT32. OSXRESERVED must be exFAT. You mention 10.13 (High Sierra). Can you upgrade to Mojave (10.14.6), not Catalina (10.15.x)?

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