Deleted bootcamp incorrectly

[aimbdd]

So I deleted the partitions using disk utility instead of boot camp assistant. So I am now missing 100 gb of space. Any way to get it back without backing up everything repartitioning and reinstalling?

running 10.7.1

 

[NZed]

So I deleted the partitions using disk utility instead of boot camp assistant. So I am now missing 100 gb of space. Any way to get it back without backing up everything repartitioning and reinstalling?

running 10.7.1

Can you still see that 100gb of space on Disk Utility?

 

[Prodo123]

The 100GB is now allocated as "Free Space" instead of the part of your OS X partition.

DERP Disregard my old comment.

Go to Disk Utility, and go to Partitions tab for your hard drive. There you should be able to drag the OS X partition to take up the 100GB of free space.

 

[NZed]

The 100GB is now allocated as "Free Space" instead of the part of your OS X partition.

Coriolis Systems has an app called iPartition which can increase the size of your OS X partition to use that free space.

cant you just format that partition and then merge with your OSX partition?

 

[Prodo123]

cant you just format that partition and then merge with your OSX partition?

I had a brain fart, revised comment.

 

[aimbdd]

Thats the problem. Its not showing any free space. I have The osx partition at 650 GB, and the recovery partition at 650 MB and all the rest is just missing.

 

[AAPLaday]

I had this problem a few months ago. I ended up cloning my hard drive to an external drive, then formatting my imac drive and then moving the cloned drive info back to it. There might be a better way but im not sure how.

 

[aimbdd]

Thats what i may end up doing. Was really hoping not to... I will be reinstalling windows so I would be missing 200 GB of my hard drive otherwise.

 

[Freyqq]

format the empty partition to MS-DOS format (Fat 32) in disk utility. Then open bootcamp setup and merge as you would have before.

 

[RayK]

You can extend your Macintosh hd partition in disk utility. You will not loose any of your files either.

Here's a how to.
http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/20/resize-partitions-in-mac-os-x-with-disk-utility/

 

[aimbdd]

Yeah.. i know about that. The free space doesn't show up in disk utility.

 

[Freyqq]

Try using disk utility when booting from the 10.7 installer or 10.6 or 10.5 dvds