Cannot read partition created by Boot Camp in Disk Utility
Ok, so in trying to get a larger Boot Camp drive, I used disk utility to make a back up og my previous drive onto USB, and then removed the Boot Camp drive from OSX. This afternoon, I tried using Boot Camp Assistant to create a new partition to install windows onto, hoping to restore from the disk image on the USB drive.
HOWEVER, when restarting the computer when Boot Camp Asst. told me to, and it booted to WInXP sp2 disk, I can see 3 partitions on my drive. 1 partition being most of the 160g drive, 2nd partition being 116g of the mac drive, and the 35g of the 3rd partition (what I asked Boot camp to make) However, it doesn't say boot camp partition. I cannot install XP onto any of the partitions I see in the startup disk.
After spending nearly two hours on the phone with a very nice and helpful tech rep from Apple, my cell phone died, leaving us knowing that there is more space reportedly being used on my Mac HD than i have folders using space (only using about 73gigs of space before any of this partition work, now reports using 116 GB). I went back into the XP disk and deleted the 3rd partition, and now there is no gain in space on my Mac HD. We're re-verified and repaired disk permissions, and used the Leopard disk to repair the disk itself. Restored from Time Machine, and still no regained HD space.
Essentially I'm missing 35G of hard drive space now, and I can't install Windows.
I can only see the Mac HD partition on my hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion?!?!
Reinstall Leopard, but first use the Leopard install DVD Disk Utility to reformat the HD to one partition. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
It's for Tiger, but applies for Leopard as well.
WARNING, you must have your data saved somewhere else.
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