Windows – Unable to download the newest bootcamp drivers for the windows partition

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Bootcamp assistant is giving me this error :

The Startup disk must be formatted as a single mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

I’m trying to update the boot camp drivers for my MacBook Pro 2018 running Mojave and Windows 10. I’m trying to follow the instructions to update the bootcamp drivers for my windows side. Hitting the above error when trying to download the new software. Ideas?

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Updating any drivers for Windows 10 can be accomplished through the following methods.

While booted to Windows, run Apple Software Update.
While booted to Windows, run Windows Update.
While booted to macOS, run the Boot Camp Assistant. Look for Download Windows Support Software under Action on the menu bar. Copy the files to a FAT32 or ExFAT formatted flash drive. Boot to Windows and run the setup application in the BootCamp folder.
Download the Windows Support Software directly from Apple. The procedure is outlined in Chris F Carroll's answer. Unfortunately, your question does not provide enough information to determine which PKG file to download.

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sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
p
setpid 4
07
flag 4
p
write
y

This is assuming that your Boot Camp partition is still active, just not bootable. Reboot, and hold the option key as usual, and see if the bootable partition is available. This will likely fix your issue.

Just in case it doesn't, this article outlines some steps you can try.

BootCamp partition error even though the drive is one partition

I was able to install Windows after doing two things. I'm not positive which one did the trick as I did them both in between an attempt to run bootcamp. These are the things I did in order:

Install reFind... doing this added the missing EFI partition that was mentioned I was missing in the comments for this question.
Use the reFind partition editor to fix the Master Boot Record (MBR) table for my HDD. This partition editor can be found on the reFit menu (launched by choosing the reFit option on the reFind menu)

After this, I launched mac, started boot camp, and the 'status: partitioning disk' message/bar restarted and then it was able to finish partitioning and I have since installed Windows successfully. Any hints on why this finally worked would be much appreciated!

Also, something to note is that after I installed reFind, my partition table (output to diskutil list) was:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS MAC HDD                 500.1 GB   disk0s2

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