Help I screwed up APFS Mojave partition FFFFFF error

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Apologies for the photo but I couldn't copy/paste because my mac is in recovery mode

Basically what I did was have Windows and Debian installed alongside encrypted OSX

but this morning I was desperate for space and the other operating systems were hardly used on this machine so I used the bootcamp tool to try and delete windows and regain the extra space.

The tool then gave an error but it looked liked windows had been removed so I went to the disk utility and deleted any other partitions including the linux swap with the intent of merging them all manually.

I then rebooted the machine to find the question mark folder so I went into internet recovery mode but it looks like it can't detect the encrypted OSX partition and repair the bootloader

I am unsure what to do next as I need the files on this machine

Any help would be appreciated

Install Mojave on external disk and see if it can see your real disk, unlock and repair (I suspect not). Since your disk is encrypted it is unlikely that a recovery tool (e.g. DiskDrill) or commercial recovery service could work. Maybe better to just erase disk, reinstall and recover from Time Machine. — Gilby, Mar 22 '21 at 21:49
There are disk recovery tools (free & paid for) out there that might work .. I've had varied success & failure with Hard Disk Manager - there are 2 partition tables - one for OSX and one for Windows so you have to get them both correct. — Mr R, Mar 22 '21 at 21:54
This type of question has be asked many times. See here. Basically, you need to replace FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF with 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC. — David Anderson, Mar 23 '21 at 02:50
Since you fixed your Mac, I will vote to close as a duplicate question of macOS partition startup Volume and Recovery Disk type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF plus part of the disk corrupted?. This is not an exact match, but rather the closest I could find. — David Anderson, Mar 24 '21 at 14:43

Help I screwed up APFS Mojave partition FFFFFF error

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