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User profile for user: LMM1998
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Unable to read the Windows partition

I tried downloading Windows 10 and it wasn't successful. After trying to do it again I get this message:


"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 know this was answered in a previous post, but I'm unsure on how to view what my diskutil reads or how to run "diskutil erasevolume free free disk0s3."


Plese help.

MacBook Pro 13″, 10.15

Posted on Sep 18, 2020 12:34 PM

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User profile for user: Loner T
Loner T
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Posted on Sep 19, 2020 7:51 AM

  • Reboot to get the disk order cleaned up
  • Run
    • diskutil eject disk3
    • diskutil eject disk2
  • Run
    • diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3
  • Run BC Assistant -> Continue -> Remove/Restore
  • Quit BCA and retry BC Assistant.
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Sep 18, 2020 9:14 PM in response to Loner T

Below is the output:


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *251.0 GB  disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk1     210.0 GB  disk0s2

  3:    Microsoft Basic Data             40.7 GB  disk0s4


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +210.0 GB  disk1

                 Physical Store disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data   79.6 GB  disk1s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         82.4 MB  disk1s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        528.9 MB  disk1s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           4.3 GB   disk1s4

  5:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      11.1 GB  disk1s5


/dev/disk2 (disk image):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   Apple_partition_scheme            +18.0 MB  disk2

  1:    Apple_partition_map             32.3 KB  disk2s1

  2:         Apple_HFS Flash Player      18.0 MB  disk2s2


/dev/disk3 (disk image):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   Apple_partition_scheme            +17.2 MB  disk3

  1:    Apple_partition_map             32.3 KB  disk3s1

  2:         Apple_HFS Flash Player      17.2 MB  disk3s2

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