Boot Camp quit while partitioning, lost hard drive space

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GutHoister

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I was running Boot Camp for the first time, and selected a 32GB partition for Windows. The progress bar reached about one third completion, and then just stopped. I waited for about a half hour, with no more progress, so I quit Boot Camp.

Now I seem to have lost a lot of space. My hard drive reads 43GB free where it was 60 before the partition. No other hard drive is showing up in Disk Utility either. Any advice? Is there anything I can do besides a full system restore from Time Machine?
 
Run Boot Camp again.
If there is a partial drive partition completed, that may clear it. You want to remove the Boot Camp partition at that point, and then try to create it again (if you still want to install Windows). You would do all that through the boot Camp utility.
If Boot Camp is no help - you will need to repair the partition information on your hard drive. Disk Warrior is very good at that type of partition/ directory repair. That should also help you avoid a system restore...
 
Thanks for your suggestion. Tried running Boot Camp again, to no avail. I get this error message.

"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."

When I click Verify Disk in Disk Utility, it tells me to boot up the system using another disk (e.g. my Snow Leopard installation disk) and then use Disk Utility to repair my harddrive. Unfortunately, I lent my Snow Leopard installation disk to someone and can't lay my hands on it at the moment. I have my Leopard installation disk, but since I have Snow Leopard installed, I can't seem to use it as a startup disk.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
You should be able to boot to your Leopard DVD. Put that disk in your drive, and restart. You don't need to wait for it to mount - so - Restart, while holding the C key. Your Mac will boot from that disk. Run Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
Remember, you will lose everything that is not backed up, as you will be erasing everything.
When you have Disk Utility opened - Select your hard drive (the line with the manufacturer's info/capactity, etc, and not a line with the assigned drive name.
Then, click the partition tab.
Then, click the drop-down for Volume Scheme, and choose 1 partition.
Click Apply, and all your partitions will be gone in a few seconds.
Click the erase tab, and name your partition, and make sure it is set for Mac OS Extended (journaled), and click the Erase button. Another few seconds, and you will be ready to continue with your install.
This would be fewer steps if you have your Snow Leopard installer, as you won't need to upgrade to that after setting up your hard drive and installing Leopard.
Also - your Snow Leopard DVD has the updated Boot Camp drivers for your Windows installation. You will need that. Hopefully, lending is not a permanent transfer :D
 
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