Partitioned my 2019 MBP with Bootcamp, but am unable to boot to the partitioned "Bootcamp" drive

Hi everyone,


I have a 2019 MacBook Pro that is running Catalina 10.15.4. Just yesterday I used Bootcamp Assistant to create a Windows 10 partition on my MBP. However, when I rebooted my MBP after Bootcamp Assistant finished, startup manager only showed one partition I could boot from: Macintosh HD.


As well, Startup Disk in system preferences only shows my Macintosh HD.


However, Disk Utility shows that the Windows Bootcamp partition does exist (output of 'diskutil list'):

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         435.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                65.0 GB    disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +435.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     156.3 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.1 GB    disk1s5


Is there some sort of security setting preventing me from booting into the Windows Bootcamp partition? I also thought it was a bit weird that after Bootcamp Assistant finished doing its thing, my MBP wasn't rebooted directly into the new partition, but rather just shut down.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 20, 2020 9:17 AM

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Apr 20, 2020 9:31 AM in response to Logicmn

Logicmn wrote:

Is there some sort of security setting preventing me from booting into the Windows Bootcamp partition? I also thought it was a bit weird that after Bootcamp Assistant finished doing its thing, my MBP wasn't rebooted directly into the new partition, but rather just shut down.

This is not correct. If you were never prompted to Windows credentials and setup, it seems to have failed. Re-run BC Assistant, click on Remove/Restore, run SMC/NVRAM Reset and retry.

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