The Problem: My macOS partition doesn't appear as an option at boot
Background: I had a main el capitan partition and a bootcamp partition. I used the EaseUS program to resize the bootcamp partition from 90GB to 45GB and after rebooting, I could no longer see any option but 'Windows' when holding alt at boot.
My Initial Investigation: I took a look at my paritions in three different places: The EaseUS program, diskpart
on windows, and the disk utility on macOS Recovery Mode.
On both EaseUS and diskpart
, my partitions look fine:
However, in disk utility in recovery mode, it looks a bit different. On the sidebar I can only see one child partition of the SSD (BOOTCAMP). However when inspecting the disk, it shows three partitions (Untitled : 145.36GB, Untitled: 650MB, BOOTCAMP: 48.32GB) and a 'Child count' of 4. I wish I could provide a screen shot, but AFAIK this is not possible with recovery mode.
I also ran first aid on the SSD from disk utility and everything verified as OK.
Additional Comments: I'm a bit out of my depth here and would really appreciate any advice as to how I can boot into macOS again
Edit #1:
In response to @DavidAnderson
I am using a an early 2015 13" Retina MacbookPro (MacbookPro 12,1).
My Volume 2 details are as following:
Partition 2
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 209735680
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 2 Macintosh H HFS Partition 135 GB Healthy Hidden
And my volume 3 details are:
Partition 3
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 145570975744
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 3 Recovery HD HFS Partition 619 MB Healthy Hidden