Bootcamp crashed and erased part of my HDD

i have done a little bit of research and i have found nothing that has actually worked, but i was trying to install windows on my mac using boot camp, and i have done this a bunch of times before, but this time it crashed and erased my partition.
i have a late 2008 unibody macbook pro running (at the time) mountain lion 10.8.0
so i ran bootcamp and set up my partitions and everything was going along normally. it was running for well over 2 hours (which it has never taken that long before) and then the program restarted. i restarted my computer in hopes that i could just do it all over again, but there was no windows partition made, and the partition size that i had chosen for windows was erased off of the mac partition size.
i know that there has to be a way to save this partition and put it back, i just dont know how. if anyone could help i would really appreciate it.
thank you in advance guys.

No that's not the problem. The partition that I created for windows is GONE.
I have a one terabyte hard drive and I made a 400 GB partition for windows. But when Bootcamp crashed it completely erase the 400 GB. a boot camp partition was never made and now my hard drive is only 600 GB. Whenever I open Boot Camp assistant to try and restore the hard drive, it basically prompts me to partition the hard drive as if I had never opened it before. So I have 400 GB of hard drive space unaccounted for and I have no idea how to bring it back

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