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I am unable to boot into windows 10 via bootcamp

Hello to anyone reading this, your help will be hugely appreciated.


I have a 2018 intel mac mini, and have had no trouble running windows via bootcamp until I played around with some settings to try and get an external Ubuntu drive to be able to connect to wifi. I'm not sure exactly what I did, but now no matter how many times I delete and re-install windows, the following happens.


  1. Create partition and go through bootcamp steps - successful
  2. boot into windows for the first time and go through windows setup - successful


After this, the mac restarts into mac OS. The Windows partition is visible both in finder and in the startup disk selector. If I select Windows as startup and restart, I see a black background with white loading spinner for ~10 seconds, then it boots into mac os. If I hold option at startup, I only see mac OS as an option.



diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         368.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                132.0 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +368.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            9.9 GB     disk1s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 9.9 GB     disk1s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     271.1 GB   disk1s2
   4:                APFS Volume Preboot                 2.1 GB     disk1s3
   5:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.2 GB     disk1s4
   6:                APFS Volume VM


fdisk: 1> p
Disk: /dev/disk0	geometry: 7602/255/63 [122138133 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Offset: 0	Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -   89920767] <Unknown ID>
 2: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [  89920768 -   32217344] HPFS/QNX/AUX
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
*4: 07    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] HPFS/QNX/AUX


I have attempted many of the steps I have found across multiple similar help posts, but still haven't had any luck.


Any help would be hugely hugely appreciated.


Thanks,

Elliot

Mac mini, macOS 14.1

Posted on Dec 10, 2023 5:48 AM

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Jan 4, 2024 2:19 PM in response to ehogg

Unfortunately Loner T. and his technical expertise hasn't been around for quite a while.


It's extreme, but if you really want/need Windows, you can try backing up your Mac and erasing, then restoring the backup:

  1. Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support
  2. Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac - Apple Support
  3. Restore your Mac from a backup - Apple Support

Jan 4, 2024 3:21 PM in response to ehogg

Oh, interesting. This almost seems like a hardware issue if you reinstalled macOS already... if you were so inclined, you could still try backing everything up, then erasing it completely, attempting Boot Camp again, then restoring the backup- if that doesn't work, it's definitely a hardware issue- but as you've already reinstalled the OS to no effect, it might not be a bad idea to take it in for a look-over.


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