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Bootcamp crash while creating new partition

Hi All,


I unfortunately had a system crash while installing windows 10 with Bootcamp. System locked up and had no option other than to turn off my mac. I tried to install Windows again and I now get and error and it falls over when the install process gets to the "creating partition" stage. The message is "Your Disk cannot be partitioned", "Please run disk utility to check and fix the error".


I have tried running disk utility to no avail. There is only on partition available "Macintosh HD" and I have run "first aid" as per disk utility with no success. The repair option is greyed out.


If anyone could shed some light on the matter I would be of that would be fantastic. Thanks.


Brad

Posted on Dec 11, 2017 2:25 AM

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Dec 12, 2017 3:39 AM in response to Brad_76

The 1.1GB VM is a required part of APFS, which should not be removed. If you have run a Repair, can you run the following command and test BC Assistant again?


sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 999999999999


Also, run the following two procedures before your next attempt at Windows installation.


How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

How to reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

Dec 11, 2017 5:25 PM in response to Loner T

Hi, thanks for the replay, I am running High Sierra 10.13.2


The output from terminal is as per below ;


Thanks.


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.8 GB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.8 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 151.3 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.1 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 506.6 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

Dec 13, 2017 6:39 AM in response to Loner T

Running operation 1 of 1: Add “Untitled” by splitting “Macintosh HD”…

Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1

Verifying storage system

Using live mode.

Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l /dev/disk0s2

Checking volume.

Checking the container superblock.

Checking the EFI jumpstart record.

Checking the space manager.

Checking the object map.

Checking the APFS volume superblock.

Checking the object map.

Checking the fsroot tree.

Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the snapshots.

Checking the APFS volume superblock.

Checking the object map.

Checking the fsroot tree.

Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the snapshots.

Checking the APFS volume superblock.

Checking the object map.

Checking the fsroot tree.

Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the snapshots.

Checking the APFS volume superblock.

Checking the object map.

Checking the fsroot tree.

Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the snapshots.

Verifying allocated space.

The volume /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK.

Storage system check exit code is 0.

Shrinking APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 499,963,170,816 to 359,914,717,184 bytes

Shrinking APFS data structures

APFS Container Resize error code is 49154

A problem occurred while resizing APFS Container structures.

Operation failed…

Bootcamp crash while creating new partition

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