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Boot Camp Assistant - Unable to read the Windows partition

Hi, I have created a Boot Camp partition with Boot Camp Assistant more than one year ago and I decided to eliminate it and create a new one in order to install a new version of Windows.

Probably my memory wasn't good at all and I should have deleted the partition with Boot Camp Assistant, instead I've done it with Disk Utility.

Now when I try to create a new Boot Camp partition the result is this message:


"Unable to read the Windows partition

Boot Camp Assistant was unable to verify if the Windows partition contains a Windows installation. This may be because BitLocker is enabled on the partition. If so, disable BitLocker on the disk before removing Boot Camp."


I want to clarify: I've never used BitLocker.

I'm pretty sure that I've removed the Windows partition in a wrong way and this means that something is still there and I don't know how to solve this mess!

This the result on Terminal for diskutil list, and in disk1 there is a "Windows Recovery" partition!



Next one image is "diskutil apfs list" result. Honestly I don't know if it's useful or not, but in this forum I've read somebody that suggested it:


Machine tech specs:

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017)

macOS Catalina 10.15.6


Thank you so much!

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 9, 2020 3:43 AM

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Posted on Sep 9, 2020 6:13 AM

Run


diskutil eraseVolume free free disk1s3


and retry.

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Boot Camp Assistant - Unable to read the Windows partition

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