My MacBookPro16,1 was operating Home windows 10Pro through Bootcamp and after an replace I might not boot into Home windows. So I spent 2 days backing up my information and attempting to run Home windows restoration instruments to no avail. My closing choice then turned to take away bootcamp and reinstall bootcamp/home windows.
Home windows had been put in through bootcamp on a 4TB NTFS partition. I’ve MacOS Massive Sur 11.7.3 on the Mac.
I went by way of the Bootcamp utility, as instructed within the Apple help, and ran the “Restore disk to a single macOS partition” choice. This did certainly take away Home windows 10 and the BOOTCAMP NTFS partition. Now I’ve 4 TB of free area nevertheless I can’t reinstall Home windows on this because it doesn’t acknowledge this 4TB. Bootcamp needs to put in on an APFS partition (is that this one thing new? it has been a number of years since I did the preliminary Home windows 10/bootcamp set up and if I recall appropriately, it wanted to go on an NTFS partition).
Here’s what the disk volumes appear like now:
jami@Jamis-MacBook-Professional ~ % diskutil listing
/dev/disk0 (inside, bodily):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 1.0 TB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Primary Knowledge MacData_NTFS 3.0 TB disk0s3
(free area) 4.0 TB -
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk1
Bodily Retailer disk0s2
1: APFS Quantity Macintosh HD 15.3 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.3 GB disk1s1s1
3: APFS Quantity Macintosh HD - Knowledge 626.9 GB disk1s2
4: APFS Quantity Preboot 437.3 MB disk1s3
5: APFS Quantity Restoration 623.2 MB disk1s4
6: APFS Quantity VM 20.5 KB disk1s5
And here’s what it seems to be like when I attempt to set up Windows10 with Bootcamp:
What can I do to (re)set up home windows on a partition the makes use of the 4TB of free area?
I attempted operating resizeContainer so as to add/allocate the 4TB of free area to the APFS partition however that did not work.
I received an error as follows:
% sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0
Password:
Began APFS operation
Error: -69519: The goal disk is simply too small for this operation, or a spot is required in
your partition map which is lacking or too small, which is commonly attributable to an try
to develop a partition past the start of one other partition or past the top of
partition map usable area