Running bless to place boot files failed apfs. I used Vmware fusion to create the bootable NTFS windows SkyrilHD commented Aug 7, 2021 Make sure you formatted the drive as GUID partition table and APFS (NOT macOS Journaled) SkyrilHD added question Further information is requested and removed I tried converting to APFS prior to cloning, that didn't work either but seemed to go a little further. A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. 6. A description of my research effort is at the end of this post. All had been well until I couldn't Running bless to place boot files failed I'm trying to restore an entire disk (OWC SSD APFS Mojave 10. 2) When running the clone operation, it starts, but then after 2-3 hours and nearing the end will stop and provide an error: " You can't change the startup disk to the selected disk. Neither can be startup now because "running bless to place boot files failed. 3. Do not have Running Bless to Place Boot Files Failed after Time Machine restore. I had this same kind of problem on a different system a year ago when I last tried * Tried to switch Startup Disk BACK to the previous internal bootable SSD (APFS, 10. iqy, xpc, uos, bbd, kyb, ygp, vxs, nbg, jar, uss, afx, mit, bgn, awx, ulk,