Bootcamp Mac Partition Unknown – Fix ‘Could Not Locate macOS Boot Volume’ in Bootcamp

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In my Macbook pro (2016 touch bar), previously I installed Windows 10 and upgraded to creators version. In Windows session, in the bootcamp "Restart in macOS…" option is returning "Could not locate the macOS boot volume." error.

When I ran the gdisk tool (based on this thread answer) to list the partition details, I see my mac partition (#2) has FFFF code (seems to be unknown)

c:\Temp>gdisk64.exe
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.3

Type device filename, or press <Enter> to exit: 0:
Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk 0:: 122138133 sectors, 465.9 GiB
Sector size (logical): 4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 67089514-C692-4DF1-8679-633BDE4D77E6
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 5
First usable sector is 6, last usable sector is 122138127
Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2112456 sectors (8.1 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1               6           76805   300.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2           76806        58758145   223.9 GiB   FFFF  NoName
   3        60870144       121919301   232.9 GiB   0700  BOOTCAMP
   4       121919488       122137855   853.0 MiB   2700

Any help to boot into macOS?

Best Answer

You can still boot the macOS partition right? You can hold down Alt/Option upon startup and it will give you a list of bootable volumes. Choose Macintosh HD (or your macOS partition) to boot it. Once you're done, you may wish to change the default boot to macOS in System Preferences -> Startup Disk. To boot your Windows partition again, hold Alt/Option upon startup and choose BOOTCAMP (your Windows partition).

If you have any other Bootcamp questions, let me know. Cheers

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