Boot camp disappeared after switching to windows

Hello, I recently switched from IOS to Windows using boot camp on my Mac since I wanted to play games that where only available on windows. The problem is since that day I cannot install even the smallest games because I have no space on disk for some reason. I tried restarting and resetting but that didn't do anything and my storage is still full after installing like one game. I can't even go back to IOS now since my boot camp disappeared and I can't find it in any way. Yes I tried restarting while holding the alt/option key but it didn't worked. Another thing. After restarting I was unable to install some applications due to an error ,,vcruntime140. dll was not found" and any tutorials about fixing it didn't helped. I would really appreciate the help with coming back to the earlier state of my computer or with fixing the storage/error problem. Thank you in advance

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Posted on Sep 9, 2022 08:12 AM

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Posted on Sep 9, 2022 09:19 AM

Regarding the storage, many modern games have pretty hefty requirement. How much space was allocated? That is easily remedied with an external storage device- I have a 500 GB SanDisk Extreme SSD dedicated exclusively to Windows.


As for being unable to boot into it, can you boot into macOS Recovery by holding CMD + R on startup? If not, try Internet Recover (CMD + OPT + R).

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Sep 9, 2022 09:19 AM in response to Qorcet

Regarding the storage, many modern games have pretty hefty requirement. How much space was allocated? That is easily remedied with an external storage device- I have a 500 GB SanDisk Extreme SSD dedicated exclusively to Windows.


As for being unable to boot into it, can you boot into macOS Recovery by holding CMD + R on startup? If not, try Internet Recover (CMD + OPT + R).

Sep 9, 2022 09:57 AM in response to -Bubba-

I have 15.3 GB free of 39.3 despises not installing anything

Earlier my Mac had (I think) about 512 GB of space and not even half of it used.

Sadly the CMD + R or CMD + OPT + R doesn't work either no matter when I use it but it also might be the problem of me using a regular keyboard instead of the Mac one but since reboot I cannot use the other one since my Mac just doesn't detect it but I'm sure I'm still pressing the correct alternatives of the CMD and OPT

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