MacOS disk lost after deleted Bootcamp

How do I recover macOS from windows 10 on an iMac when Bootcamp has been deleted and the macOS disk no longer shows up when I restart and hold the Alt/Option key?

Bootcamp was deleted a while ago, not thinking that it would also delete my macOS disk and now I can't switch back to macOS.

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Posted on Dec 17, 2022 7:05 AM

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Dec 17, 2022 7:16 AM in response to wan_ping

Boot Camp is only propery removed and the drive returned to MacOS format when Boot Camp Assistant is used to remove Windows and the Boot Camp partition. If you used another method such as Disk Utility to remove the Boot Camp partition, you will have to reinstall the MacOS.

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