Boot Camp partition deleted but still taking up space?

Specs: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB memory
Recently procured a used 2008 MacBook Leopard from a relative before going overseas. They also gave me a DVD of Windows 7 Home Premium.
Thing is, I can't seem to partition it in Boot Camp Assistant. It's got 150GB, but only 100GB is actually available.
1. Boot Camp Assistant gave me:
"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 BCA again."
2. Rebooted and held down Cmd/Opt/R keys. Only the HD drive was visible.
3. Disk Utility. Only one volume: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). So I tried:
First Aid:
No problems/bugs reported when verifying the disk, so there wasn't anything to repair.
Erase:
Erased all free space and tried BCA again, still no luck.
Partition:
Tried adding a new partition and resizing. Tried resizing the original partition. Same result: "Partition failed with the error: No space left on device". Then it just defaulted to the 150-GB sized drive with only 100 GB available.
Restore:
Tried to restore from the external drive-based backup I made before erasing it the first time. None of the disks could be set as the destination.
I haven't got the install disk or the money to upgrade the OS, so any help would be appreciated!

Well even a good backup program costs something.
Disk Utility is free and can copy the system to another drive (RESTORE TAB)
5.8 is so old you should not be connected to the internet with it probably.
yours is like the 2,999th post of the same error and asking 'what do I do.'
you need contiguous unfragmented free space. Leo 10.5 is not as flexible as later to shrink a partition to help move files to consolidate that free space like 10.6.8 ($20) which is what I would go out and buy.
Carbon Copy Cloner older versions are free/shareware and great for making a bootable backup of your system to another disk drive. Use it!
Not sure what you used or did but to backup and restore you need to use a program that makes bootable backups (you can't just copy files by hand).

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