Macbook Pro partition not recognized, only Windows bootcamp
Hello,
yesterday I reduced the macOS partition (from Disk Utility) creating a new small partition and used a partition manager software (inside Windows) to be able to expand the actual Windows bootcamp without deleting any data.
After this last operation and a system reboot I noticed that was unable to boot in macOS, just in Windows.
I tried to figured out what was going on and following there's the actual situation:
- from the Windows administrator tools I can see my Mac partition (of course Win cannot recognize the file system extension);
- using "Paragon APFS for Windows" software I'm able to access to the previous mentioned partition (and just in case I also did a backup of the most important data);
- from Disk Utility in the Recovery mode (Command + R) it seems like there is no macOS partition at all, it is named Windows Recovery instead;
- if I try to reinstall macOS for a strange reason it is Sierra even though I had the latest update of Catalina;
- when selecting the partition to reinstall macOS it recognize only the bootcamp partition leaving the rest of 113 GB (the actual mac partition) unseen;
- after the resize operation in Windows under "This PC" appeared for the first time a very small partition called EFI formatted in FAT32 and I'm totally unable to access to it.
For all the previous point I attached a picture.
Now what I would like to do is to restore the macOS partition somehow avoiding to erase anything (included the bootcamp partition) because it will be a huge work to reinstall everything included the appropriate applications and softwares.
Does anyone have any suggestion on how to solve my problem?
Thank you in advance for the answer.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15