Canceled Boot Camp Partition half way, and lost storage space

I was trying to create a 75 gig partition on my hard drive, but i canceled boot camp before it could complete. Now, I have 75 gigs less free space than I did before, and i can't find the partition to delete. How can i fix this so that i get back my lost space?
( I know this post probably shouldn't go in this section, but no one looks at the boot camp section)

What/how are using to find and delete the partition?...Boot Camp Assistant or Disk Utility?....don't know if I can help...

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    qcpharaoh wrote:
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    -I ran the snow leopard CD's disk utility and thought that I had fixed the problem.
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    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    It could be that the space used for Windows is free space, so you don't see it on a volume.
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    2. Select Macintosh HD in the partition bar, click the bottom right corner, drag it to the end of the bar and press Apply to recover the lost space

  • Cancelled Boot Camp Partition, Now Disk Capacity Reduced

    Hi, i was partitioning my MacBook Air to install windows 7, but after an hour it just froze, so I force quit Boot Camp and the space was gone. I tried the SL/Lion solution and the space is still GONE! What can I do to recover it? Disk Utility won't work :C

    I call it nuked and only a slim chance of retrieve or survival, so my vote is to use the backup you made and go ahead and erase the drive and restore it to how it was, or clone your Mac volume and boot from there and restore, maybe even zero the drive to help check for disk errors.
    If you need help cloning, Disk utility Restore or Carbon Copy Cloner can do the trick.

  • Boot Camp partition deleted but still taking up space?

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    Restore:
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    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!
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  • Boot Camp Partition no longer shows in StartUp Control Panel

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    Message was edited by: colmiak

  • Expand Boot Camp Partition to Existing HD Space

    Ran out of space in my Windows 7 64-bit Boot Camp partition (was 35 GB) but now that I expanded to 80 GB and restored, Windows Explorer (and Disk Utility) says it's still 35 GB. I downloaded Acronis and it says Boot Camp is 80 GB, but FAT32. Tried converting to NTFS in the admin command prompt, it said it was already NTFS. Not sure what to do now to get the Boot Camp partition to take up the available space, any ideas?
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    Extend volume is greyed out.
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  • Resized Boot Camp partition; now I have "disk0s4"

    OK so i was following this tutorial on how to increase your boot camp partition from this website.
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    I resized my Boot Camp partition to give Windows 7 more space.  In Disk Utility on OS X ML, I reduced the size of my OS X partition. So then i clicked apply and now that partition says disk0s4. I tried to verfiy and repair it through disk utitlity but It wont let me as there are problems. I have reiszed my parition before and never had this problem before. What did I do wrong and will I be able to fix it?

    As you have found out, those instructions do not work, so.
    If you can you still boot to OSX, you can Use Boot Camp to remove the Windows partition and return the Mac to normal, then start agin.
    Next time you need to resize an NTFS partition use Paragon Camp Tune, which can do it without borking things.
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  • Changing boot camp partition size

    How do I change the Boot Camp partition size? I need more space on the Mac side and less space on the Windows side. Thanks.

    Just posted this yesterday -
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  • Any way to reduce the size of Boot Camp partition?

    I made my Boot Camp partition way big and now I'd like to smallify it by about half, down to 60G or so (it's 130G now). Is there any EASY way to do this?
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  • Parallel runs slow on Boot Camp partition and other questions...

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    I've tried a search of previous posts and can't get a bulletproof answer. Here goes:
    Using XP SP3 in a Boot Camp partition on my iMac running Snow Leopard. Only one complaint (the metal keyboard Option key issue for boot up -- really lame).
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    Mike Bombich, the author of Carbon Copy Cloner (another cloning app for OSX) is to my knowledge working on an addition to CCC to clone or backup a BootCamp Windows.
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    Regards
    Stefan

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    AceNeerav wrote:
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