Why can I not create a Boot Camp disk?
I am trying to run Boot Camp Assistant, but BCA tells me the start up disk is too small. But it isn't...
MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), 1TB upgrade
Thanks Loner T for looking at this. Here is the Terminal output. Here is more detail: I would love to get the windows partition onto my main SSD. But I am running 10.13.3 beta, and all I can do is contact Apple with the Feedback app. So I have hooked up an external HDD with 10.13.2, the partition with the system on it being 90 GB, available 71 GB. Hope you can solve this mystery...
Klauss-MacBook-Air:~ klausblume$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *960.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Klaus Toy 943.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS eDrive 15.9 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Klaus Toy +942.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
398D0E72-9D71-4C64-9C1D-9AAB8212B4C6
Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS MacOS High Sierra 88.5 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s3
4: Apple_HFS Blank 70.0 GB disk2s4
5: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s5
Klauss-MacBook-Air:~ klausblume$ diskutil apfs list
No APFS Containers found
Klauss-MacBook-Air:~ klausblume$
Reboot from the internal disk, and disconnect the external disk and all other external storage. Are you able to create a FAT32 partition via Disk Utility? If yes, your 2015 Mac supports only EFI Boot, so any W10 EFI Boot installer (including one created by Windows Media Creation Tool) will work. Once booted from the EFI Installer, you can reformat the FAT32 to NTFS (or Free Space) and let the installer continue. Free Space is preferred, so the installer can create the MSR.
Create a backup via TM, in case you need to backup/erase/restore, before you get started.
If you are on HS 10.13.1, please updated to at least 10.13.2. From macOS Terminal, post the output of
diskutil list
diskutil apfs list
What is the year/model of your Mac? Do not post the serial number of your Mac?
MacBook Air, early 2015, 1 TB SSD upgrade.
Why can I not create a Boot Camp disk?