Big Sur Boot Volume Disappeared After Boot Camp Resize

Hello Apple friends I was planning of backing up my Boot Camp volume so I resized it to become smaller with a Windows app, now, after it resized it to be smallwr even though Big Sur is still there, it wasn’t deleted, the iMac can’t find it, it won’t boot to Recovery Mode and if I boot to an external drive with Disk Utility the Macintosh Data and Macintosh are not not displayed, it even displayed as unmounted. I can still boot to the newly resized Boot Camp.


Is there any way to fix this using with the Terminal from the external Disk Utility? Thank you in advance. This is on a Fusion drive.


God bless, Rev. 21:4

iMac 27″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Sep 9, 2021 9:09 PM

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Sep 10, 2021 2:19 AM in response to Alvin777

What is listed below will Destroy ALL DATA on the drive and there are No Do Overs - period.


To perform this action will require booting from a Bootable Installer. This will have to be performed from a Qualifying Computer to run the version of macOS to be made on the Bootable Installer. Example : Bootable Installer of Big Sur would have to be done on a computer that Qualifies to run Big Sur.


Once that is done read on for preparing the Destination computer  >> Special Notation - works on Intel Based Apple Computers & on Apple Silicon M1 CPU


Extra Special Notation regarding the Touch ID equipped Apple Computer. About Startup Security Utility and Must Enable from Recovery Mode the ability to boot from External Drive Before Attempting 


>>>>>>> How to fix a split Fusion Drive <<<<<<<



1 - Shutdown computer and disconnect all external drive Except the newly created Bootable Installer.


2- Restart and immediately hold the OPTION key until the Startup Manager appears and choose the USB Drive. 


3 - It will present options >> Disk Utilities >> View >> View ALL attached Drives.


4 - Choose the Upper Most Drive ( not the volumes indented and list below ).


5 - The drive normally is called Apple Media or Apple SSD - that is the drive to Erase and format as APFS with the GUID Partition Map. 


6 - Once that is done >> backup out of Disk Utilities and choose install macOS. 


7 - Follow the prompts and it may automatically reboot several time. 


8 - Upon a final reboot - Setup Assist will present with the newer version of macOS.

Sep 16, 2021 2:13 AM in response to Barney-15E

Hi. I guess after almost a week I’ll just replace the Apple Blade SSD (it’s 5 years old too anyway) must havs bee killed. by the paritionong Wondows program Ease US (I forgot I should resize using Boot Camp Assistant). Anyway is I have the Apple Blade SSD replaced, will the iMac still want to fuse my current hardisk with the okd Apple SSD (thereby damaging the new Apple Blade SSD, or it won’t do fusion with the new Apple SSD?) Also I check my hardware with hardware diagnostics and System Report says there is an Applw controller- is the port where the SSD is connected just fine


Thanks.Please advise.

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