Bootcamp Partitioning is stuck/taking forever.

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Bootcamp Partitioning is stuck/taking forever.

I have been in this "Partitioning disk" for about 1-2 hours. Hitting the 3 hour mark. The blue loading bar is completely full. From what I found on the internet, I went into the terminal and did this command ---> diskutil repairDisk disk0. It says it finished partition map repair. Now what should I do? I still have bootcamp up.

I have a Macbook pro mid 2013 with High Sierra.

Also I would need detailed directions because I really don't know what I'm doing.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 24, 2018 6:00 PM

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 8:01 AM in response to Loner T

I'm currently partitioning. Things that are happening is that at "Shrinking APFS data structures" I get short computer freezes and unable to click things while frozen. If this was supposed to take a few minutes, then something might be wrong cause its been around 10-15 minutes already.

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Mar 26, 2018 9:21 AM in response to trixie274

Disk0s3 and Disk0s4 need to be merged and removed using BC Assistant. Please run

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4

diskutil list

If you only see disk0s3, then run

diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3

Now run BC Assistant and retry Removing/Restoring.

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 8:47 AM in response to Loner T

New problem, I cannot upload any pictures to this because it says: "_____ can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found." I think its because of the partitioning? But I can copy and paste.

diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *240.1 GB
disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB
disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 107.5 GB
disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data B 132.3 GB
disk0s3

4: Apple_Boot 134.2 MB
disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +107.5 GB
disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Trix 91.9 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 22.2 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.8 MB
disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4

/dev/disk3 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +4.7 GB disk3

/dev/disk4 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Boot Camp +2.8 GB disk4

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 25, 2018 10:27 PM in response to Loner T

This is the output. And by now I have closed bootcamp.

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Loner T

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Mar 25, 2018 9:19 AM in response to trixie274

Partitioning is supposed to take a couple of minutes, not more. From macOS Terminal, please post the output of

diskutil list

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 5:00 AM in response to trixie274

As a test, run Disk Utility, and try to create a FAT partition of the size you want Windows to be.

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 8:05 AM in response to trixie274

Have you replaced the internal SSD/HDD recently?

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 8:24 AM in response to Loner T

No I haven't. But the partition is now complete.

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 8:28 AM in response to trixie274

Can you post the output of

diskutil list

for validation?

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 10:30 AM in response to Loner T

I've done that and now I'm trying to download Windows again. How long should the whole procedure take?

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 10:25 AM in response to trixie274

We are merging the 132Gb partition and the smaller 134MB partition into one, and removing it using BCA.

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 10:33 AM in response to Loner T

I should be able to run bootcamp now? Or is there anything else I have to do.

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 10:37 AM in response to trixie274

After the diskutil steps, were you able to merge all the disk space back into macOS? If yes, then please continue the standard procedure with BC Assistant.

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trixie274 Author

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Mar 26, 2018 11:14 AM in response to Loner T

What is the estimated time for it to completely download?

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Loner T

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Mar 26, 2018 11:22 AM in response to trixie274

The Windows Support Software is about 1.6GB, so it may take about 5-10 minutes, depending on the network connection. The typical full install may take about 20-25 minutes.

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