Bootcamp partition doesn't appear
Hi there,
My bootcamp partition doesn't appear on start up disk, can someone help?
Best Regards
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.5
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Hi there,
My bootcamp partition doesn't appear on start up disk, can someone help?
Best Regards
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.5
Thank you for taking the time to run the Etrecheck Application.
The Report - how can I put this - is not looking good.
This machine is a Fusion Drive with a Slow Rotational Drive 5400 RPM and a small SSD 28 GB with 8 GB RAM. Right there, it is going to be slow.
The Bootcamp Partition Mounted Volumes:
disk0s3 - B******P
322.99 GB (220.99 GB used, 102.00 GB free)
MS-DOS FAT12 - This is the issue. Have never seen a MS-DOS Fat 12 Yes Fat 32 or exFat Would suggest using Bootcamp to Remove this Partition and re-create a new Bootcamp partition and start over
Mount point: /Volumes/B******P
Western Digital Software to manage the external drive. Not needed as Apple can manage the external drive without any need for third party software unless the drive is formatted as NTFS then special software is required to Read - Write to NTFS formatted drives.
Virtualbox - if you verify - it is Not Compatible with Big Sur and as of this writing - AFAIK - there is not VM Software available that is compatible with Big Sur
VMware Fusion - same as above
Thank you for taking the time to run the Etrecheck Application.
The Report - how can I put this - is not looking good.
This machine is a Fusion Drive with a Slow Rotational Drive 5400 RPM and a small SSD 28 GB with 8 GB RAM. Right there, it is going to be slow.
The Bootcamp Partition Mounted Volumes:
disk0s3 - B******P
322.99 GB (220.99 GB used, 102.00 GB free)
MS-DOS FAT12 - This is the issue. Have never seen a MS-DOS Fat 12 Yes Fat 32 or exFat Would suggest using Bootcamp to Remove this Partition and re-create a new Bootcamp partition and start over
Mount point: /Volumes/B******P
Western Digital Software to manage the external drive. Not needed as Apple can manage the external drive without any need for third party software unless the drive is formatted as NTFS then special software is required to Read - Write to NTFS formatted drives.
Virtualbox - if you verify - it is Not Compatible with Big Sur and as of this writing - AFAIK - there is not VM Software available that is compatible with Big Sur
VMware Fusion - same as above
Start up your Mac in Windows or macOS with Boot Camp
When Bootcamp was started - was it successful in creating the Partition ? Was there any error message received when attempting to create the partition ?
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We can have a look at the report for possible issues and may have possible suggestions to resolve the issues.
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Hi again,
Here is the report:
No, nothing, I've been using this bootcamp for some time, but now it's gone. I had installed an ntfs writing software and already uninstalled it, however it didn't do me any good.
Thanks for the reply and review my report.
I have never actually seen a Fat12 either, how is it possible that the disk has been converted to Fat12? Weird.
As for the rest, thanks for the tips ;)
Welcome and Thank you too :-))
If Bootcamp is run and can not find the Fat12 partition to remove >> the next step is a major step to be explored only if we can not remove it.
Bootcamp partition doesn't appear