Boot Camp Assistant not assisting
I am trying to install Windows on Mac Pro 5.1 using boot Camp Assistant, but she won’t play nice and displays the following pop up
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
Disk Utility shows a single partition 4tb drive. ‘diskutil list’ reports the following,
dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 4.0 TB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Install macOS High S... 90.9 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_HFS bup macpro 364.0 GB disk1s3
4: Apple_HFS Untitled 544.7 GB disk1s4
disk0 is the boot drive where I am trying to install Windows. Disk1 is WD external drive used for TM backup etc. I am planning on installing a 500GB SSD as the boot disk (cloned from disk0) when the partition impasse is resolved. Are all these partitions in disk0 essential? I can’t remove the partitions in Disk Utility as they don’t appear. Can I safely merge/delete the partitions in Terminal? Am I missing another solution?
Many thanks
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