What does DCP watchdog violation mean?

Should I once again erase that partition and start Bootcamp from the beginning again? What difference would that make? And why doesn't my Windows get me as administrator? – That should come normally from Bootcamp.

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BjornFosethsAir:~ bfo$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         858.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                102.0 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +858.0 GB   disk1

                                 Physical Store disk0s2

   1:                APFS Volume OWC Aura Pro X2 – data  352.7 GB   disk1s1

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 80.9 MB    disk1s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                529.0 MB   disk1s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      7.5 GB     disk1s4

   5:                APFS Volume Hjärntrusten            11.1 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk2

   1:               Windows_NTFS FORSETH-16G             15.6 GB    disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                            FORSETH 2GB            *2.0 GB     disk3

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *32.0 GB    disk4

   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              32.0 GB    disk4s1

Hjärntrusten is my namn on OWC Aura Pro X2.

I did EXACTLY that – except that SMC thing, my computer has no T2.

Connections: internet, an Ex-FAT empty 16 GB USB. Bootcamp pointed to "Win10_21H1_Swedish_x64.iso", which I had on my hard disk.

When finished, Mac restarted – not Windows. And now: The Windows 100 GB partition was totally empty. But the Ex-FAT contained 8,71 GB Windows.

According to my Swedish Apple manual, a Windows installator should have opened automatically. It didn't, and I don't know where it is.

Now I will be away for some 14 hours.

Hello!

Catalina 10.15.7. I am every day suggested to install Big Sur, but I am not interested, since what I have is something that works.

More: I have a bootable Sierra, since I long ago bought a package of advanced programs, which I updated until they made it unusable – unless I began yearly hiring this package… Therefore I made this USB, since there is something in the package that I regularly use and have good use for.

Now, the situation today is:

One SSD (1 TB) with my system and documents on in one main partition.

One empty partition Bootcamp (100 GB)

One 16 GB USB Wininstall

So far nothing new. Bur I started Bootcamp assistant and opened in the menu "Fetch Windows support app" and fetched that. (But I have the feeling that Bootcamp already had done that automatically.) And let Bootcamp install that app. Gut still, wasn't that already done?

No automatic restart came.

What can I do now?

All that I did. Reset SMC is something newer than for my machine, says Apple help. There is no "T2" here. But I did reset NVRAM according to the instructions with double starts as a result.

Then: only Install. How can I choose Install? Shall I open Bootcamp and start it again? Won't it do everything anew?

My Bootcamp shows

– Create an installation disk för Windows 10 or later

– Fetch the latest Windows support app from Apple

– Erase Windows 10 or later

This makes me think. Why is my Bootcamp 100 GB partition empty?

By the way, I have saved WindowsSupport on my hard disk. It is the same as on the Wininstall USB.

All seems so familiar, therefore this question.

My setup of devices:

•This hard disk (SSD)

On this disk Win10_21H1_Swedish_x64.iso

dito WindowsSupport folder

•Wininstall, ExFAT 16 GB USB – now containing Windows 10

Should I first erase it?

•Ethernet connection

And a detail: the Windows Recover that opened for me, when I knew there was a Windows on the partition, claimed. that nothing could be done, because there was no administrator registered.

How is that possible, when I am the administrator, owner and sole user of this machine, from which Windows was installed?

This administrator thing still bothers me. Can I tamper with this?

Apart from that I will follow your suggestions:

let Bootcamp erase Windows 10,

then back to Bootcamp and let it create an installation drive for Windows 10 somewhere

and let Bootcamp fetch the latest WindowSupport from Apple

Should that be it? Will I go through the partition process again? Will Windows 10 end up in this partition?

I will wait til late with this, so as I can use my computer for other things a while. If there is something more I should know, there is time to tell me.

By the way – I am very grateful for your assistance.

Oooh… Will this never end?

•DID remove Windows that way

•DID reset SMC, NVRAM I did yesterday

•DID connect my USB Wininstall

•DID run BC Assistant and chose only the third option, the install – but it said it would erase Windows 10

It did. Finished with an empty Bootcamp partition.

•DID try to install Windows. But how? Only BC Assistant can do that, I gather.

Restarted Bootcamp and the three options were as before: the third option said "erase Windows 10". Quit the assistant instead.

Noted, that the Bootcamp was empty and the Wininstaller was not on the desktop. Opened Disk Utilities, and it saw Wininstall there, but it couldn't be made visible. So I wondered if that was why BC Assistant didn't install.

Pulled out the invisible USB and reinforced it. Now it was visible and called Wininstall.

Restarted BC Assistant and chose the third option, which still said "erase Windows". That is what it is doing now. Bootcamp is still empty. One minute to go, it said half an hour ago.

Now the Assistant has done all. It says "Install this Windows Support when you have installed Windows". But that is what I just tried to do. Now I have restarted BC A and everything is like before. The Windows partition is empty, the Wininstaller USB is not visible but exists, according to Disk Utilities. With 8,59 GB in it.

This is a nightmare. Good night!

Strange thing: Disk Utilities shows a disk file (what is the namn of that sort?) called CCCOMA_X64FRE_SV-SE_DV9, format UDF. Should be visible but isn't. What is it?

Morning!

1. I looked at the Bootcamp instructions "Steg 3: Installera Windows". It says "Follow the instructions on the Windows installer screen".

I often read about the Windows installer. As far as I have seen, the only thing with that namne is a Windows file (which I don't find now). Is there a separate mac application called Windows Installer, or does it refer to the third action in Bootcamp?

I don't think so, but I can try again. But which Windows 10 will it erase? There is only one, the one on the USB. That spooky CCCOMA_X64FRE_SV-SE_DV9 is gone.

Talking of the USB. It was installed on my ExFAT USB 16 GB. I had til now another, Fat32, Wininstall since the first time I installed Bootcamp years ago. I had thought it should be spared, therefore I still have it. If I insert it, it looks like the new USB Wininstall but perhaps without upgrades during the years.

Shall I prefer one of them?