Can't Reacquire Bootcamp Partition Space

I wanted to delete Windows, so I tried deleting its partition via Boot Camp Assistant, and surprisingly enough it crashed in error.
I then launched Disk Utility and tried to reacquire the now-unpartitioned space by stretching the "Macintosh SSD" partition over it, and that failed, too. Here's a screenshot of the error I'm getting:
I also tried repartitioning the unallocated space into a new MS-DOS (FAT) partition, which did work, but not for using it for a new Windows installation with Boot Camp.
I'm pretty much out of ideas, and I'd very much like the space back without having to reinstall OS X from scratch, if possible.

Well, I lost about a month or so of updates and such, but at least i got my missing gigs back.
On a sidenote, a linux-ninja friend of mine recommended this handy little tool, which, weren't it too late, I'm pretty sure would've saved me a lot of trouble: http://gparted.org/

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Want to install windows 7 64bit only partitioned for 20mb in bootcamp can i increase bootcamp partition before installing?

Want to install windows 7 64bit only partitioned for 20mb in bootcamp can i increase bootcamp partition before installing?

Yeah, just open Boot Camp Assistant, restore the hard drive to a single partition and then redo the partitions again. You should have a bare minimum of about 50GB as @The hatter said. You might want to just divide equally, that's usually the easiest thing to do.

Can't mount bootcamp partition in 10.9.5

Hi, I'm only able to boot into my bootcamp partition by restarting the computer and holding down alt/option. When I'm in OSX, I'm only able to see the partition in Disk Utility, and it's greyed out there. I just installed Windows 8, updated to windows 8.1, and then installed a mavericks update. I guess somewhere along the line the bootcamp partition got disconnected from mavericks?
I did some googling and I think I need to do something in gdisk to fix it, but I'm not sure how that works. Here's my output from
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 967470968] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 967880608 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969150464 - 983451648] HPFS/QNX/AUX
and from sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/rdisk0': Undefined error: 0
Any help would be appreciated! I already installed gdisk successfully, just have no idea how to use it.

Yeah, and actually I tried using gdisk because I hadn't gotten any replies, I really messed up what I had and now I can't boot into windows ^^;
Here's a new version of those previous two. Somehow BOOTCAMP turned into XENIX, I have no idea how or what that means (nothing good probably)
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 967470968] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 967880608 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 03 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969150464 - 984373248] XENIX /usr
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   967470968      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   967880608     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   969150152         312
   969150464   984373248      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
And here's some other stuff that might be helpful
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            495.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                504.0 GB   disk0s4
sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
      409640   967470968      2 GPT part - "Untitled"
   967880608     1269544      3 GPT part - "Recovery HD"
   969150152         312
   969150464   984373248      4 GPT part - "BOOTCAMP"
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Spotlight can't remember Bootcamp partition in Privacy

Snow Leopard 10.6.1
Whenever my (original) MacBook is restarted, or shut down and started up again, Spotlight doesn't 'remember' that I had put the Bootcamp partition in Privacy. This is getting annoying as I have to remember to put it back. This behavior didn't occur in 10.6.0... Is there something I can do to persuade Spotlight to remember?

Phew - Thank you! Indeed, it must be disabled by default now. After I checked it once, I decided I'd better restart and check it again. No wonder the drive won't stay in Privacy, there's no need...
That's it for me, and I never want to index the BootCamp partition, or any other drive (i.e. external) for that matter, (I can tell you that the Mac partitions show up in Privacy when the external HD is turned on and the Windows partitions, DOS, do not) but maybe somebody else following this does.
"if you use NTFS-3g then spotlight should be able to index your bootcamp drive"
Thanks again!

The mysterious case of the missing Bootcamp partition space

I've searched and searched, but have come up with nothing, so I hoped that one of you brilliant people could help me:
I created a 122gb partition on my Macbook Pro using Bootcamp.
After all was said and done, Windows installed and so on, Windows told me I had only 113gb on the partition.
However, once back in OSX, Disk Utility told me that the partition was indeed 122gb as I had originally planned it.
So, does anyone have any idea where those 9gb magically disappeared to? Did I do something wrong, and is there a way to fix this?
Bootcamp is working just fine, and so is OSX (aside from the Bootcamp drive icon not showing up on the desktop anymore for some strange reason, nor the Bootcamp partition showing up as a selectable start up drive), so I'm at a loss.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

If you are on iOS 8.2 then update to iOS 8.3.
If that doesn't solve the problem try the standard troubleshooting steps in this order:
Restart: Press On/Off button until the Slide to Power Off slider appears, select Slide to Power Off and, after It shuts down, press the On/Off button until the Apple logo appears.
Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10-15 seconds). No data will be lost.
Restore: Connect your device to iTunes on your computer, backup, and then select Restore to Factory.
See here for more details on restore: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201252

Can't remove bootcamp partition

Hi all, I have a late 2012 27 inch iMac with a fusion drive. I have attempted to bootcamp Windows 8 following various posts here and elsewhere. Short story - its failed on each and every attempt, and now it seems as though I am stuck with a dud bootcamp partition.
I created a windows install USB for windows 8 and later windows 7 and created a bootcamp partition with the bootcamp assistant. The USB key was created without error. But when the system rebooted to start the Windows installation I got a message saying there was 'no boot device'. I tried various fixes including using rEFIt and creating the USB stick using microsoft's tool. Nothing has worked.
I would like to delete the windows partation and start again (don't know if this will make a difference, nothing has worked so far). I have tried to remove it with the bootcamp assistant (ticked the "Remove Windows 7 or later version" tick box), no go, just get a blue and white striped status bar. Tried in Disk Utility, also no go.
Just don't get why bootcamp installation is so painful and time consuming. Any advice on removing the dud bootcamp partition welcome. Any tips about which USB devices are suitable for Bootcamp would also be appreciated.
Thanks.

stevec1234 wrote:
I wonder how / if the right files will go to the right disk within the fushion volume (ie system files to the SSD) when cloning back with Carbon Copy Cloner. It's supposted to 'just work', but then so is bootcamp...
They should, but let us know if they don't. Please remember that the actual location of any file is decided by the OS.

Upgrading MacBook Pro Hard Drive - cannot get Bootcamp partition to work

Hello,
The other day, I decided to replace my 320 GB hard drive with a 1 TB hard drive/SSD hybrid. I did a little bit of research about cloning the drive before that, and it seemed pretty straight forward to clone the OS X partition, but I wasn't really sure about cloning my Windows partition. Originally, my 320 GB hard drive had 2 partitions: 220 GB for OS X Mavericks, and 100 GB for Windows 8.1.
I bought the new drive with an external enclosure and plugged it in. The first thing I did was open Disk Utility and partitioned the new hard drive (750 GB HFS+, 250 GB NTFS). I figured I would need to partition it first and clone each partition separately. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X partition, and it worked with no problem (I immediately could restart my computer and boot with the partition on the new drive, while it was still plugged in by USB).
Next, I tried using CCC to clone the Windows partition the same way (I realize now that CCC cannot do this). 7 hours later, the cloning was complete, but there was an error that a couple files couldn't be copied. I tried copying them manually but it didn't work. I wasn't sure if the Windows partition would work, so to find out, I switched the hard drives and put the old 320 GB one in the external enclosure. I booted my computer and it booted the new OS X partition with no problem. It also mounted the Windows partition that I cloned with CCC, and I can access all of the files in it. However, when I restarted and held down "option", it would not let me boot the Windows partition.
After some googling, I realized CCC is not able to clone a bootcamp partition and make it bootable, so I opened disk utility and deleted the Windows partition (using the minus button), then recreated it (using the plus button). I downloaded Winclone (paid $30), which supposedly can clone a bootcamp partition. I opened Winclone and it seemed pretty simple: you just choose the source partition on the left, and the target on the right. I plugged in the USB enclosure with my old hard drive, and in the Winclone menu the original Windows partition popped up. I chose that as my source, and chose to copy it to the new NTFS partition on the new drive that I created. I left it on overnight, and when I woke up it said it was completed.
I now had two drives mounted: my NTFS partition that I created, and a new one that said "EFI". I have no idea what EFI is. My NTFS partition looks like it has all of the files from my original Windows partition on it; however, when I restart it does not allow me to boot with it, although I now have the option to boot EFI. When I select EFI, I am given the Windows 8.1 start up screen (with the blue Windows logo), but then an error message pops up saying something like there is an issue and it needs to restart (it restarted before I could read the whole thing).
When I boot in OS X, I only have the NTFS partition (with all my Windows files) mounted, and no EFI. When I restart, I can still boot EFI, but I always get the same message and then it restarts.
Is there any way I can fix my Windows partition so that it works the same way it did on my old drive? What is EFI? Can I delete it? How can I make the NTFS partition, which seems to have all of my files, bootable? I only want 2 partitions: one for OS X, and one for Windows. Also, can I do all of this without having to reinstall either of the operating systems?
Thanks

Hmm, that's a good question!
I headed over to the twocanoes website (the folks that make Winclone) and their guide mentions something about running Sysprep before you create the Windows image. If you skipped that step, that may be why you're having issues
http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/migrating-a-bootcamp-partition-with-wi nclone/
Step 24 in that guide also mentions copying a Boot file - were you able to/did you do that?
You may have better luck over in the Bootcamp forum, which is here.
~Lyssa

Help! Win 8.1 Bootcamp partition vanished

Hi all
My Windows 8.1 Bootcamp partition has vanished.
Last night I was playing a Windows game, all was well and I shutdown the machine at the end of the night. This morning I got up, powered up the Mac Pro and noticed it was stuck in an OSX reboot cycle. I held the alt key down and the 3 boot partitions popped up OSX, Recovery, Windows 8. I selected Recovery and ran the Disk Utility, "Check" disk tool. It reported that the EFI was bad so I clicked on Repair. It then said it couldn't repair it. I rebooted again and this time there are now only two options, OSX and Recovery. I clicked OSX which loaded fine. I have no idea how this happened when the machine was off over night and fine the night before in both Windows and OSX.
So now I have no way to boot into Windows on my new Mac Pro 2014 machine.
Bootcamp is on the internal SSD along with OSX
I have never resized the partitions
I have not installed anything new in the last few weeks
I do not visit dodgy websites and run Malware bytes anti malware regularly (never found an issue to date)
Last night I added a secondary HDMI monitor
The day before yesterday I unplugged everything and rearranged my office
I uninstalled Parallels Desktop Trial (expired) 1 week ago from both Windows and OSX
I have backed up the Bootcamp partition to an external drive using Disk Utility
I CAN browse the bootcamp partition using finder and the folders and files are all visible.
New Mac Pro. 512GB SSD, OSX 10.9.3, 16GB Ram, Thunderbolt Display, HDMI Dell Display
Any help would be much appreciated as some of my key work software is on the BOOTCAMP windows install.

There is overcharging protection in the battery and the adapter, both. This can also be seen on OS X side under System Report -> Power. If you adapter is plugged in and the battery is charged, it will say 'Not charging' despite the fact that the power adapter is connected.

Can i merge bootcamp partion with mac using parallels

I installed win 7 via bootcamp, now i installed parallels and using win 7 via my bootcamp (parallels). since i installed parallel can i merge bootcamp partition with macintosh hd, without reinstalling win7 for further use

Not sure check with the Parallels helps section and or there forums.
The reason I say this is if Parallels Created a Virtual Machine File for that BC install then Yes you can use Boot Camp assistant to delete the Windows Partition and that will merge it back into the Mac partition and not disrupt the Parallels VM of Windows.

Bootcamp partition won't load on startup after Yosemite upgrade

Hi!
I have a similar problem like others before, but I tried to fix it like described but it didn't work.
Here's my output:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            199.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         20.2 GB    disk0s4
diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 488397167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 389244168      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
389653808    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
390923344   58022832
448946176   39450624      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
488396800        335
488397135         32         Sec GPT table
488397167          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 389244168] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 389653808 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
testdisk
Disk /dev/disk0 - 250 GB / 232 GiB - 488397168 sectors (RO)
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
1 P EFI System                    40     409639     409600 [EFI system partitio
2 P Mac HFS                   409640 389653807 389244168 [Customer]
3 P Mac Boot               389653808 390923343    1269536 [Recovery HD]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
4 P MS Data                448946176 488396799   39450624 [Microsoft basic dat
4 P MS Data                448946176 488396799   39450624 [Microsoft basic dat
a]

You have been bit by the Yosemite/Windows resizing bug.
390923344   58022832
448946176   39450624      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
Have you used any tools to resize your Windows partition at any time prior to the Yosemite upgrade?
Here is a reference thread that you can follow - Missing Bootcamp Partition (with pastes!).
You are in Testdisk Quick Search, you will need to run Deeper Search to find your lost 'NTFS' partition.

Windows 8 woes on bootcamp/partitioning/help please!

So, I ordered a copy of windows 8 OEM edition 64bit. I'm on a late 2012 macbook pro 13 inch with mac os x 10 mountain lion.
I recieved it, started up bootcamp did as it said and then when i came to installing windows the partitioned hard drive I'd created (100gb) for windows wasn't useable. Windows 8 said "can't use *bootcamp partition I forget the exact name/perhaps partition 4*. Windows gave me the option to format the drive. So i did. And the drive was then obviously no longer boot camp and has turned into a standard NTFS drive (I'm not that clued up on this go easy on the terminology for me!). In short, I then continued to install windows 8 on a none bootcamp partition.
This installation doesn't have the drivers needed (probably from bootcamp) for use of the macbooks dvd drive or the volume/media/keyboard light buttons it doesn't recognise the wifi card or anything..
So i guess I need to know these things:
1) how do I uninstall windows 8 from that partition and then restore that partition to recreate the whole, original volume? Is there a way of uninstalling windows that means I can use it again (i.e. I don't want to be paying another £60 for the privilage of a new license)
2) how do I do the PROPER bootcamp installation? and what happens if I hit that bit where windows 8 doesn't like the bootcamp partition i created?(i know not to format the hard drive now!)
Thanks for any help guys, much appreciated!

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
First of all, Boot Camp isn't compatible with Windows 8 because Apple hasn't released Boot Camp drivers for it, so do it at your own risk. If you don't want to break the Mac, install Windows 7.
SlugsForBrows wrote:
1) how do I uninstall windows 8 from that partition and then restore that partition to recreate the whole, original volume? Is there a way of uninstalling windows that means I can use it again (i.e. I don't want to be paying another £60 for the privilage of a new license)
If you didn't erase OS X, press X key while your Mac is starting to start into OS X, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to erase the Boot Camp volume.
SlugsForBrows wrote:
2) how do I do the PROPER bootcamp installation? and what happens if I hit that bit where windows 8 doesn't like the bootcamp partition i created?(i know not to format the hard drive now!)
Thanks for any help guys, much appreciated!
Open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to install Windows. When you are on the partitioning screen, format only the BOOTCAMP volume and install Windows on it.
Boot Camp Assistant will ask you to download the drivers, but now they are useless for Windows 8

Can I install Windows 8.1 as Bootcamp partition from OSX Mountain Lion using a USB stick?

I have the following:
Bootable USB stick with Windows 8.1 - 64 bit
MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8.5 - it's probably 3-4 years old.
The Bootcamp partition currently has Windows 7 installed.
I want to know whether I can install Windows 8.1 from a USB stick into a Bootcamp partition. Apple's article on the topic refers to Bootcamp 5.1, but my OSX install has Bootcamp 5.0 - I am assuming 5.1 comes with the Mavericks version. I don't want to upgrade to Mavericks because I am running out of space as it is on the OSX partition.
Thus my question. So can I?

Your laptop has a DVD drive, right? If so you need to burn your ISO to a disc, will not work off USB

Cannot delete bootcamp partition/free space on HD (OS X Mavericks)

I am having trouble removing a bootcamp partition made a while ago. I thought removing this partition would be as simple as using disk utility to delete the partition, and extend the Macintosh HD partition back to its original size.
However, after clicking the minus sign using disk utility I am now left with 51.24GB free space where the bootcamp partition used to be and cannot seem to do anything to bring the hard drive back to one single partition.
I have tried using boot camp assistant, which is useless. I have to tick either "Install Windows 7" or "Download the latest Windows support software from Apple", and when I click to install windows 7 (which below says it can be used to remove an existing windows partition), it only lets me re-size the Windows partition to a smaller 20GB size. It does not give me the option to remove the partition like it says it does on the first page and like I have seen on examples online (which I am sure are from previous OS X versions).
I have tried going to disk utility when booting from the recovery disk, however this does not give me the option to erase the entire disk then start again from a time machine backup; it only gives me the option to erase my current 268.48GB Macintosh HD partition, which wouldn't be any use.
I have verified the disk and all seems ok. I am running OS X 10.9.1 on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Memory.
Any help appreciated as I am running low on HD space on my mac and the extra 50 GB that I can't seem to free up would be very useful.

Give this a try:
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your external hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
            if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This will install the default version of OS X that came with your computer if it came with Lion or later. If it came with Snow Leopard, then you must do this instead:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Free space not showing after shrinking BootCamp Partition

I gave a lot of space for the windows 8 bootcamp partition because I thought I am going to install Lots of stuff on it.
After 3 months I found out that my lion partition is almost full! And I have 100 GB of free (Unused) partition on my bootcamp partition.
So I shrunk my bootcamp partition (in windows) by 60 GB. I plan to expand my lion partition in OSX so then I restarted my mac.
Next I went to disk Utility and found out that I can't expand my lion partition with the free space. Until then I realized that lion and windows have different file systems (oops.) so I decided to expand my windows partition back to normal.
Then I went back in windows and found out that the free space is not showing in disk management! What should I do next??
The free space is showing on top but when I right-click the windows partition the "Extend volume" option is greyed out.
PS I dont care about the mac partition now. Did some cleaning with CCleaner and freed 10 GB

you should have asked first to get some ideas? I would have recommended Paragon CampTuneX which is designed to resize those partitions for you.
You want to have 20-30GB free space for any OS. If you were using an SSD, at least that much or even more.
I have no idea if iPartition or gpart can help you now.

I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition and it got deleted now I have 217 GB of free space that I cant use and I want to rejoin it with my macbook partiton.

So I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition with Paragon and it was taking forever so I decided to use iPartition the Paragon started doing something and it was almost done when my macbook began to shut down. It was shutting down becuase I though the paragon wouldnt work. Anyway it shut down and I wasnt able to boot to the iPartition CD, so I decided to just screw it and just stick with Mac osx. Then while in the iPartition app once I booted up back into OSX it said I had 217 gigs of free space and my hardrive/mac os partition can only use like 270 gigs. But I desparetely need these 215 gigs back becuase I do things that require alot of memory. Does anybody have any idea how I can rejoin this free space with my mac partition. I already tried it in disk utility and it kept failing with a couldnt unmount disk error everytime I tried to resize back to its full size! PLEASE HELP! Heres a pic of what iPartiton shows me.

You need an external disk that is formated as HFS+ with a GUID partition map.
You can use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to create the clone.
Once ypu have the clone you can boot from my holding down the option key ater power on.
Once booted from the clone open Disk Utility.
Select the internal drive.
Click partition.
Select single partition.
Once drive has bee formated, restore the clone nack with the application used to make the original clone.
Boot from internal drive.
Allan

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