Macintosh HD has Hidden Partition?

[I Love Mac]

Today I looked at my Disk Utility and realized my Macintosh HD has 2 partitions. Not the acutal Hard drive but the macintosh hd one and I have no option to delete the other partition that is why i say its hidden. Its taking up about 90 GB of space!!! How do i delete it help please!!!!!

 

[GGJstudios]

What version of Mac OS X are you running? If Lion, are you sure it's not the Lion recovery partition?

Introducing Lion Recovery
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery

 

[Ivan P]

If it's 90GB it certainly wouldn't be the recovery partition.

 

[I Love Mac]

What version of Mac OS X are you running? If Lion, are you sure it's not the Lion recovery partition?

Introducing Lion Recovery
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery

Nope I'm on Snow Leopard.

 

[old-wiz]

The moderators frown on thread bumping.

anyway, what's the title of the hidden partition?

 

[I Love Mac]

The moderators frown on thread bumping.

anyway, what's the title of the hidden partition?

Oh okay it wont happen again. but thats what im mystified about it dosent have a name and it dosent show up. i just click info for my Macintosh HD and it says i have 2 partitions???

 

[balamw]

The moderators frown on thread bumping.

It's the Forum Rules that discourage bumping. We mods only enforce the rules.

Could this be a pre-owned Mac that previously had Boot Camp Windows on it?

B

 

[I Love Mac]

It's the Forum Rules that discourage bumping. We mods only enforce the rules.

Could this be a pre-owned Mac that previously had Boot Camp Windows on it?

B

This is not a pre-owned but I did have a Windows partition but deleted it.

 

[old-wiz]

This is not a pre-owned but I did have a Windows partition but deleted it.

Sounds like it could have been the windows partition but was deleted incorrectly or incompletely. Don't know how to recover it though.

 

[I Love Mac]

I ended up just erasing my hard drive and this solved the problem. Thanks though.