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User profile for user: deekee62
deekee62 Author
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Bootcamp installation failed

Hello,

I tried to install win10 via Bootcamp twice and now the Bootcamp assistant is stuck in a loop with the same error message.


The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.



The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.



Unfortunately I cannot delete the partition using the Disk Utility.


Many thanks in advance for any help.

Regards, Dirk


MacOS Mojave Version 10.14.1



MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016)


/dev/disk0 (internal):


#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 313.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED 8.0 GB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 80.0 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_HFS Ohne Titel 98.8 GB disk0s5


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +313.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 167.8 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 46.9 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 512.4 MB disk1s3



APFS Container (1 found)


|

+-- Container disk1 A4A5353B-33AE-4784-9C8E-FD386A410D45

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

APFS Container Reference: disk1

Size (Capacity Ceiling): 312999997440 B (313.0 GB)

Capacity In Use By Volumes: 169676042240 B (169.7 GB) (54.2% used)

Capacity Not Allocated: 143323955200 B (143.3 GB) (45.8% free)

|

+-< Physical Store disk0s2 5CDDD98C-A189-43D8-8786-9F1B48332400

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

| APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s2

| Size: 312999997440 B (313.0 GB)

|

+-> Volume disk1s1 41C90DC9-A2B6-37C2-97F6-090A97122AB8

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

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

| Name: Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: /

| Capacity Consumed: 167898812416 B (167.9 GB)

| FileVault: Yes (Unlocked)

|

+-> Volume disk1s2 7BAC577F-0C34-4F0C-8176-8191EDFEDFE2

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

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

| Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 46899200 B (46.9 MB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s3 C3065903-4937-4624-AD79-7DA00516B837

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

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

| Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 512389120 B (512.4 MB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s4 C3F226AA-C31E-41B6-BD71-4F5CCE59D500

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

APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s4 (VM)

Name: VM (Case-insensitive)

Mount Point: /private/var/vm

Capacity Consumed: 1073762304 B (1.1 GB)

FileVault: No

MacBook Air, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)

Posted on Nov 29, 2018 10:17 AM

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User profile for user: Loner T
Loner T
User level: Level 9
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Posted on Dec 1, 2018 5:27 AM

Run


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s5

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5

diskutil list


If you only see disk0s3 as the last entry under disk0, then


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and now run BC Assistant and try to Remove/Restore.

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User profile for user: Loner T
Loner T
User level: Level 9
59,526 points

Dec 1, 2018 5:27 AM in response to deekee62

Run


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s5

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5

diskutil list


If you only see disk0s3 as the last entry under disk0, then


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and now run BC Assistant and try to Remove/Restore.

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User profile for user: deekee62
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User level: Level 1
8 points

Nov 30, 2018 11:41 PM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner,

thanks for your reply but unfortunately it didn't work as expected.


After erasing the disks0s3, disk0s4 and disk0s5 I got:


/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 313.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS BC1 7.9 GB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS BC1 79.9 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_HFS BC1 98.8 GB disk0s5


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +313.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 165.8 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 48.0 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 512.8 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk1s4


Then I merged them:


Merging partitions into a new partition

Start partition: disk0s3 BC1

Finish partition: disk0s5 BC1

Started partitioning on disk0

Merging partitions

Waiting for partitions to activate

Growing disk

Finished partitioning on disk0

/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 313.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS BC1 186.8 GB disk0s3


Unfortunately I forgot to:

diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3

as I was distracted and started the BC Assistant right away which failed formatting the partition and now I get the following:


/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 225.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED 8.0 GB disk0s6

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 80.0 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_HFS BC1 186.8 GB disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +225.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 166.4 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 48.0 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 512.8 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk1s4


/dev/disk2 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: CCCOMA_X64FRE_DE-DE... +4.8 GB disk2


Sorry for that I messed it up, but would you mind to assist further, as I'm already struggling to remove the newly created disk2?


Many thanks in advance for further guidance!

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User profile for user: deekee62
deekee62 Author
User level: Level 1
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Dec 1, 2018 5:38 AM in response to deekee62

I followed Loners suggestion carefully again, but now I had to adjusted the drive name accordingly and everythings went smooth.


Thank you Loner :-)


But unfortunately now I got stuck in the Win10 Bootcamp setup, as I cannot accept the license agreement, because the popup windows is to small and the tick boxes and buttons are not visible.

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