Data disk apparently corrupted, recovery mode can’t repair it and I’m honestly in despair
Hello everyone, I hope I can find someone who has enough knowledge to help me with this situation.
So, up until an hour ago I had a windows partition on my macbook air, which has always worked fine. I decided to remove it since I didn’t need it anymore, so I opened up Bootcamp Assistant and tried to delete it but it didn’t work, and I got a message asking to do some S.O.S action using Utility Disk. I went to do that, and I got told that “S.O.S” had found a damaged zone that needed to be repaired and that I should do so by entering Recovery Mode and do S.O.S from there. I then checked Bootcamp Assistant again and it was behaving like there was no windows partition on my macbook anymore, but checking the available space on it the space that I was using on the windows partition was still missing. So I restarted my macbook using recovery mode, and that was the last time I saw my desktop. (Up until me trying to uninstall the windows partition everything was working perfectly with the mac)
On recovery mode, I went and did S.O.S on all of the disks and it failed on one of them, named Macintosh HD - Data. I tried multiple times, (I’m still able to do this) and it keeps telling me that it’s failing to repair the disk and that I should proceed with a backup if it’s possible (couldn’t it tell me earlier when I was still on my desktop?), which I guess is impossible from recovery mode.
After that, I just tried restarting my computer and this time it asked me to proceed with a software update before doing so. After the update was done, I was able to get to the login screen and enter the password to my user in order to access the computer, but the charging bar only progressed a tiny little bit before my macbook went black and restarted. (I’m also still able to attempt this, but it won’t let me in).
Now, I’ve given up every hope regarding getting my files back, which I’m not too worried about as I keep the most important ones in an external SSD (I would still prefer to get everything back obviously), but I don’t understand if my macbook is broken or not and if there’s any chance that I can get it back to work. I can’t reinstall MacOS Sonoma because there’s not enough space on the disk, since it’s missing half the capacity from the windows partition that just ghosted me, and I have no idea on what I should do. Should I initialize, restore, deactivate any of the disks?
The disks I’m seeing through Utility Disk in recovery mode are:
- Macintosh HD (which contains the two next ones), no errors with s.o.s mode
- Macintosh HD, no errors with s.o.s mode
- Macintosh HD - Data, which is the one that the s.o.s mode can’t stand
- macOS Base System, no errors with s.o.s mode
The following text contains everything that is written on the details tab of the failing s.o.s. process:
I’m definitely going to ask for support in an Apple Store but first I wanted to try and understand if this is something I can fix myself, and also put my mind at ease if it easy broken and irreparable after all; I don’t want to find out that in front of an Apple employee.
Thanks to everyone who will read this and try to help!! I’m very grateful
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.0