MacOS – Bootcamp Windows 10 Fails to Start After Interrupted macOS Update

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I recently installed the macOS Mojave developer beta on my MacBook Pro. Everything worked fine and I could start both macOS and Windows.

Today, when updating to the beta 2, however, the installation got stuck at 16 minutes remaining for over an hour at which point I force restarted the computer.

macOS still boots fine. Also Windows still appears as an option when I hold down the ⌥ (Option) key on boot. However, when I click on it macOS starts instead.

In Disk Utility a disk is not mounted and I cannot repair it. There is only one 512GB SSD that macOS and Windows share.
Disk Utility

diskutil list outputs the following:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         120.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         379.5 GB   disk0s3
   4:           Windows Recovery                         491.8 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +120.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            75.9 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.3 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

How to get Windows 10 to boot again?

Best Answer

A workaround I have discovered is to go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk, and select the OS that you cannot now access from the boot screen as your default startup OS (in my case Boot Camp Windows 10). Then at the boot screen you can access Mojave as normal when you want to. It is not really a fix but an easy workaround until the fix comes out. It worked for me at least.