Boot Camp Assistant is stuck Partitioning disk...

After four hours, the Partitioning disk phase of Boot Camp simply hasn't moved. If I try to exit, I get a pop-up that says: Boot Camp Assistant cannot quit.

I'm kind of afraid to force kill it and trash my disk partitions.

macOS Big Sur 11.2.3

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 25, 2021 10:42 PM

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2021 6:24 AM in response to emmjayell

Abort the BC Assistant partitioning. We can clean up partitioning. I assume you have a Time Machine (or another tool) backup.

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