boot camp crashed part way through partitioning

[otispunkmeyer]

what am i gonna do?

i bought leopard and one of the main reasons for the purchase was so i could make proper use of boot camp

the one program that i actually wanted to work properly has basically forced me to hard restart my machine mid way through a partitioning.

so now OS X thinks the space has been partitioned, hence i am now missing 32Gb of my hard drive, yet windows xp installer cannot see the partition.

disk utility cannot see it either

its just lost.

what are my options? i am thinking my only option is a full back up, then erase and install, then a migrate.

i cant see how this will be fixed any other way.

 

[Injury]

Does bootcamp have the option still to "restore disk to a single partition"?

 

[Kmax82]

Ok.. here's what you need to do. This is an issue with "over 1 GB" files in OS X. Not sure why they don't have you partition the space from outside of OS X so you don't run into this issue, but that might come in the future.

First, boot from your Leopard disc (Hold "C" at startup on the grey screen before the Apple Logo appears) and run Disk Utility to "Restore" your disk. This will give you that space back.

Second, go back into your regular install of Leopard and do a "Smart Search" through your files for anything over 1 GB, also if you have a VM, that will have to be moved. Copy that stuff to a DVDR, move to an external, or delete those items if you no longer need them. Once that's done, use Bootcamp to partition your drive. It should work fine.

Again, this is an issue that should be sorted out by Apple, but who really knows when/if that'll happen.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

The quickest way is to do the repair, backup your stuff, format, reinstall leopard, boot camp partition it, then copy over your files again.

Thats what I did after trying everything else.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

when i started BC again, it basically started from the begining no option to install windows, no option to restore the disk back to its full self

booting from the Leopard disc and then using the disk utility did nothing

i had TM back up one last time, then i just reformatted and reinstalled.... was pretty quick, and then it migrated my stuff from TM back into my install and its like nothing happened.

 

[Kmax82]

Well.. I know for a fact that Disk Utility DOES work, but without seeing exactly what you were doing in there, it's hard to say why it didn't in your case.

Either way, you're back up and running.

 

[DJOxillat3r]

I had this same problem, and what *seemed* to work for me was to use the "erase free space" button under the "erase" tab of Disk Utility. Apparently that just gets rid of any half-formatting/partitioning on the free space that is missing. It's also a lot simpler than making a backup with TM and wiping your drive.

EDIT: Maybe I should mention I'm running a mid-2011 iMac with OS X Lion, and the cause of my "ghost partition" was because of my already having Parallels Desktop installed previous to starting the bootcamp partition.

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