After merging partitions via Boot Camp Assistant the 112gb disappeared and became not visible in Disk Utility. Here is a screenshot of my 1tb drive where bootcamp space is missing 769gb+100gb=869gb where the exactly bootcamp space(112gb) is missing. My best guess is that bootcamp was created on macOS 10.14 and now I have 10.15 with new file system and buggy Boot Camp Assistant just swallowed partition. Is there any ways to restore it?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Notice that your 1TB disk has 752+113 GB used. You have 'missing' 130+GB. Post the output of
gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
when booted in Recovery.
Did you remove the partition using BC Assistant? Can you post the output of
diskutil list
from macOS Terminal?
This is a non-standard layout. BC Assistant cannot give you the disk space back, since you have an additional partition called files.
If you need the disk space back in macOS, you will also need to remove the files partition manually.
Can you post the current state of partitions?
It depends on the year/model of your Mac. If you post this information, do not post the serial number.
You can use WMCT (Windows Media Creation Tool) with a USB and add the BC Drivers and try to install Windows after creating partitions manually via Disk Utility.
Hi again. After performing backup and restore of bootcamp drive, the macOS option disappeared from the boot menu(after you holding down the option key) According to the 138 GB unallocated space it is just gone. May you confirm that I am right here?
Another stab in the back for windows users from apple.
Thanks for a response, though.
Once BC partition is created is there a way to re-install windows without using BC Assistant?
MBP 2015 13"
here is what my disk list looks like... omg what happened?
these 22 disks are still visible even after formatting the drive... how to fix them? is it safe to install mac os now?
Since they are all just disk images I guess it is. But to begin with what happed with my macOS partition, why it disappeared in the first place after bootcamp backup?
underscoresand-dashes wrote:
Another stab in the back for windows users from apple.
BC Assistant only supports a fixed set of layouts, not arbitrary ones. This is not supported. You can try to copy 'files' to an external disk, get your disk space back, re-create the expat partition and restore your files. Be aware that you will not be able to use BC Assistant to install Windows, if you recreate files.
Yes, I remove the partition using BC Assistant.
bootcamp partition dissapeared
