Hi All,
Please are there any other solutions to recovering my windows 10 data from BootCamp ? i am currently on Monterey OS and using a MacBook pro 2015 ? i have looked at the solutions from Loner T and followed them still none of it worked for me :( i am hoping i can get in touch with Loner T, as i am sure what i am doing wrong. please help thank you
Unfortunately, Loner T hasn't been seen for several years, and there's no way to contact individual forum members. I might be able to help, though.
When you say "Windows Missing after bootcamp resize", do you mean you can't boot into it, or is it gone from Disk Utility? What happens upon opening Boot Camp Assistant? You really shouldn't ever try to resize your Boot Camp partition.
Time Machine only backs up the Apple partition, so Windows wouldn't have been included. As for finding the items- you don't even have the BOOTCAMP partition as an option anymore, it seems. The odd part is that the partition appears to be gone. For example, if you look below at the screenshots of my Disk Utility, you can see that each screen looks very similar to the corresponding screenshots in your earlier post. Every partition shown here is a normal part of macOS (should be separate from Windows Boot Camp-
Macintosh HD (volumes):
Macintosh HD (startup snapshot):
Macintosh HD - Data:
My advice is to search your entire computer (This Mac) in the Finder for a file you know was in the Windows partition, then see if you can follow the file path to the rest of the 'Windows' files. I'm afraid if you can't find any Windows files in the Finder, they've been deleted.
Interesting- your disk certainly has some odd partitions! As for the top picture, 'Macintosh HD - Data', it's normal and part of macOS. This is my Disk Utility, expanded. Note how BOOTCAMP is completely separate-
Regarding data, I would open the Finder and try to copy as much as possible off of the partition, if possible. When you open Boot Camp Assistant, does it try to partition the disk for Windows or remove the partition? If it allows you to, try removing the partition.
If it doesn't, I would back up your Mac with Time Machine, then fully reformat the disk, then restore it from a backup. You can do so by booting into recoveryOS (holding CMD + R on startup), then Disk Utility, then 'Erase'. Reformat the disk as APFS, GUID Partition Map (if prompted).
Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac - Apple Support
I see. Can you provide a screenshot of Disk Utility? For example-
I'm not familiar with TestDisk, but you could try to search for a known file once more with FindAnyFile. It's on the App Store, but the creator offers a free trial on his website.
thank you so much __Bubba__ I really appreciate your response and reaching out to help me, basically I can no longer boot into the windows partition disk when I use the CMD + option key, the disk is not shown anymore only the Mac OS disk is displayed, in disk utility I think the windows partition is still there but currently not accessible, Mac thinks it is Apfs
thanks Bubba, but how can i find my windows partition in finder? i am not sure how to do this, let me open Bootcamp Assistant and see what it tries to do, I have backed up my Mac with time Machine, if i reformat the disk and restore from backup will i not lose the windows Partition permanently or will it be included in the time Machine backup ?
Sure here it:
i think this is the Mac OS:
and below is windows but not accessible:
and as you can see it thinks Windows boot camp is Mac OS
I cant find anything, but i was trying to use TestDisk to see if i can recover lost partitions, are you familiar with it ?
This is how far I got with it:
Thank you, I will try that now and let you know how i get on.
Alright, good luck.
Windows Missing after bootcamp resize
