Failed Boot Camp installation and missing storage space

wburschinger wrote:

This is the output.

Can you disable SIP using SIP - Enable and Disable steps and re-run the gpt command?

wburschinger wrote:

The external device at the bottom is a second hard drive that I am now backing up on.

This backup device should be formatted differently. Are you using Time Machine to backup your data? APM is a very old disk partitioning method. This should be JHFS+ (Mac OS Extended Journaled).

wburschinger wrote:

I plugged in a new 2TB WB external hard drive and begun the boot camp application.

Was the 2TB intended for use as a Windows Installer or as backup? As an installer, you need a USB2 Flash drive, on a 2013 model, of 8+ GB. You cannot use a USB HDD, which results in problems.

wburschinger wrote:

Upon restarting and going into the Windows installer, I was met with an error that many have gotten that said windows cannot be installed to this disk gpt. I looked up some fixes and one suggested I go into disk utility and reformat that partition. After doing so, the partition disappeared from Disk Utility, and my mac now shows only 400GB of storage.

There are two separate types of installation on a 2013 Mac - BIOS and EFI. BIOS uses a MBR disk, while EFI uses a GPT disk. The default on your model is BIOS. 2015 and later Macs only support EFI. The deletion/formatting of the partition should not be done using Disk Utility, but only BC Assistant.

Boot into Internet Recovery, click on Utilities -> Terminal and run

diskutil unmountDisk disk0

gpt add -i 3 -b 781659624 -s 195445503 -t windows /dev/disk0

diskutil repairDisk disk0

Boot normally, run BCA, and click on Remove/Restore.

Post any error messages.

Assuming SIP is disabled, run (do not type text like this)

sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

p (print)

x (Experts menu)

l (Lowercase L, set alignment to...)

1 (...one sector)

m (Main menu)

n (New)

3 (GPT3)

781659624 (Start)

+195445503 (Size, notice the "+" sign)

0700 (Microsoft Basic Data)

p (print)

w (write)

y (... and confirm)

q (quit, if necessary)

Reboot and run BCA. Click on Remove/Restore, if available. Post any error messages.

Re-run.. (the old size is incorrect)

sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

p (print)

x (Experts menu)

l (Lowercase L, set alignment to...)

1 (...one sector)

m (Main menu)

n (New)

3 (GPT3)

781659624 (Start)

+195445403 (Size, notice the "+" sign)

0700 (Microsoft Basic Data)

p (print)

w (write)

y (... and confirm)

q (quit, if necessary)

Hi All!

I'm facing the same issue: I cannot install Windows with Bootcamp due to not enough disk space.

This is the output of the diskutil list command:

/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 250.1 GB
disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.1 GB
disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 123.8 GB
disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 44.6 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 1.0 GB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

And this one is the output of "diskutil apfs list"

|

+-- Container disk1 C735EBB5-BC97-4876-A24A-4F4BEFF8475E

====================================================

APFS Container Reference: disk1

Size (Capacity Ceiling): 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)

Minimum Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)

Capacity In Use By Volumes:
126112350208 B (126.1 GB) (50.4% used)

Capacity Not Allocated: 124028084224 B (124.0 GB) (49.6% free)

|

+-< Physical Store disk0s2 C2935D2F-45CE-403E-BAB0-6DC741FD4449

|
-----------------------------------------------------------

|
APFS Physical Store Disk:
disk0s2

|
Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)

|

+-> Volume disk1s1 C59B3B76-1EEA-4981-903A-18C3FAAD7CB9

|
---------------------------------------------------

|
APFS Volume Disk (Role):
disk1s1 (No specific role)

|
Name: Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)

|
Mount Point: /

|
Capacity Consumed: 123827056640 B (123.8 GB)

|
FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s2 45F7B8A6-396C-4C34-B61B-9A335B505C15

|
---------------------------------------------------

|
APFS Volume Disk (Role):
disk1s2 (Preboot)

|
Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive)

|
Mount Point: Not Mounted

|
Capacity Consumed: 44646400 B (44.6 MB)

|
FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s3 11F67B07-42A5-41C3-B66C-FB1F43CC8B91

|
---------------------------------------------------

|
APFS Volume Disk (Role):
disk1s3 (Recovery)

|
Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive)

|
Mount Point: Not Mounted

|
Capacity Consumed: 1028575232 B (1.0 GB)

|
FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s4 4C5F30EC-8AD9-41A4-9035-541EC40540A1

---------------------------------------------------

APFS Volume Disk (Role):
disk1s4 (VM)

Name: VM (Case-insensitive)

Mount Point: /private/var/vm

Capacity Consumed: 1073762304 B (1.1 GB)

FileVault: No

Can you help?

Thanks!

Post the output of

diskutil list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Did you remove the MBR using Gdisk commands?

This means you have an MBR. Can you boot normally and install GPT Fdisk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) and I can provide equivalent steps.