Bootcamp partition missing after update to Catalina

I have a MacBook Air (2015) with Bootcamp on it which I use to run Windows 10. MacOS updated to Catalina (10.15.4) and I now I can't boot into Windows. I've tried via the startup disk menu and by holding down the alt/option key during boot but the Windows option doesn't show up in either of these.


The Disk Utility didn't show the partition, but the Macintosh HD partition was 170GB (out of the 251GB SSD) which is correct as the windows partition was 80GB.


I've been reading through similar threads which Loner T has been answering such as this one: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8369480?page=1 and tried to follow through the steps. My results were very similar to that thread so I ran the command in Internet Recovery mode:


diskutil unmount disk0

gpt add -i 3 -b xxxxxx -s yyyyyyyyyy -t windows /dev/disk0

diskutil repairDisk disk0


with my specifics in there. That made the partition show up in disk utility greyed out:




Downloaded testdisk and started through the teskdisk process. Got to

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7275705?answerId=29089993022#29089993022


but when I pressed p on my MS Data entry it gave me an error message instead:




So bit out of my depth here. Anyone able to offer advice? Should I continue trying to get testdisk to work or is there another approach?


Here's the output of the commonly asked for commands:


Thanks in advance

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on May 22, 2020 12:06 AM

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May 25, 2020 5:55 PM in response to Loner T

No luck mounting it:


$ diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1

Volume on disk0s1 failed to mount

Perhaps the operation is not appropriate (kDAReturnNotPermitted)

If you think the volume is supported but damaged, try the "readOnly" option


$ diskutil mount readOnly /dev/disk0s1

Volume on disk0s1 failed to mount

Perhaps the operation is not appropriate (kDAReturnNotPermitted)

If you think the volume is supported but damaged, try the "readOnly" option

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