Failed Boot Camp attempt - Restore OS X to O GB?

I was installing Windows 7 from an ISO image on a USB when the install failed.
On retrying, I'm directed to 'Remove Windows 7 or later version', as before, when the install failed for a different reason. This one is worrying though - rather than seeing the Windows 50 GB partition that I expected, I see only the following:
"Macintosh HD" will be partitioned as:
OS X
0 GB
I'm not clicking that! Anyone have any ideas?

Sorted with persistance and a few restarts. Odd one though.

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Hi I have a friend who has the newest iMac and he attempted to install Windows XP through Boot Camp. He did the partitioning and installation, but when he booted he found out that WinXP has actually NOT been installed at all, while the installer said clearly that installation has finished.
Not only did he not have Windows to dual-boot into, he also seems to have lost his Mac partition! I tried to repair his disk using Disk Utility, but there's absolutely NOTHING showing that is available for repair.
This has haunted ME ever since because I wished to install Windows XP Professional through Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro now, but unlike my friend who did the Boot Camping while his Mac was brand-new and has no fear of reinstallation, I have like 100GB worth of beloved data which even my external harddrive does not have the space to fully back them up. I don't want to risk losing my own Mac partition in the process, so could anyone sort of tell me why do people lose their Mac partitions during Boot Camping?!
Thanks.

Some times the only partition people seem to see is their OS X partition, not the FAT one that BootCamp Assistant should have created.
End result is the partition tables and user partitions are shot and support for XP's Master Boot Record is gone (Vista is happy with GPL and seems safer to me in dozen installs).
Backup. Don't do anything without one. TimeMachine AND a bootable clone (SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner, even Apple Disk Utility's Restore). In BootCamp Assistant, there is an option to view, save or print out the pdf manual. Worth the read.
Maybe more online help? or even an on-screen "Do you want TimeMachine to update your files first before proceeding?" Always have two backups, one that is off-line. Use WinClone to backup FAT and NTFS. http://www.twocanoes.com
500GB drives and FW/USB cases are cheap enough and good investment.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire/
Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard, and from BootCamp 1.x, seemed to mangle more than a few. Why people don't see their BootCamp partition and only 130GB or something designated for OS X? no idea.
And a few tried to install and wiped out small 128 MB "EFI" partitions that need to be before and after each user partition.

Failed boot camp install - how to remove windows partition?

Hi There,
After a failed boot camp install, boot camp no longer sees (or can remove) a windows partition - Disk Utility can't seem to remove it and if I use:
$ diskutil list
It shows up as partition 5 "Microsoft Reserved"
I also have a portion of free space that I can't seem to incorporate back into the main OSX partition - how do I remove the windows partition and make the drive a single OSX drive again?
Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers
Ben
- New Mac Pro
- Installing onto internal 1 TB SSD
- 10.9.3
- Windows 8.1

Just incase others have this issue, this wasn't caused by using Disk Utility (Disk Utility couldn't remove the partition anyway) it was caused by repeatedly trying to format the Boot Camp partition using the Windows installer when Windows refused to install.
The solution is an Apple tech note (I can no longer find it sorry) that sates that no other hard drives besides the internal HD and the Windows USB flash drive can be connected while installing windows.
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2. Does your Highpoint raid management utility(Highpoint engineer also called WebGui)
provide any message for your broken raid?I am also a Highpoint user, I give you some suggestion:
A.(1)If your WegGui in Manage--Array show your broken raid status is "Critical"and your bad HDD, please replace bad HDD then select Maintenance items of upper right corner of the page
(2)This will open the Array Information dialog box, select Add disk button to choose the replaced HDD then press "Submit", you can rebuild your RAID array.
B.(1)If your WegGui in Manage--Array show your broken raid status "Disable", you just can use one of Webgui function--"Keep old Data"(But it still have high risks to lose your data, it is the final method to use, I suggest you try the A method best.)
(2) Select "Maintenance" items of upper right corner of the page, from the "Array Information" dialog box, select "Delete" button, and prompted a warning: the array of data will be deleted whether to continue, choose OK..
(3)Back to Manage--Array page, this time the array has been deleted, double-click the "Create Array"
button to display the page to create the disk. From the Initialization Method field select “Keep old Data”, the remaining arrays in strict accordance with the original set of parameters, the required attention parameters include: Number of RAID member disk, Array Type, Block Size, Sector Size.
(4)Click "Create", the initialization process will start automatically, RAID
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Slow boot after failed Boot Camp

Hi,
I have an iMac, where I installed a SSD in a Thunderbolt enclosure and booting OS X from it.
That made it insanely fast :-)
Now I tried Boot camp to install Windows on the internal HDD which failed. Seems to be a known problem when using Thunderbolt as bootdevice…
After this, when I boot, the system hangs about 20 seconds, before OS X boots (Apple logo with the line moving). Just black screen before the Apple logo comes.
Seems the system is trying to load a not existing Windows…?
Formatted the internal drive, but it didn't help.
How do I stop this delay?

Please run an SMC Reset and NVRAM Reset and test.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
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Hi Jbarber,
What is the Bootcamp installation disk? If you have the Leopard install DVD, everything needed for bootcamp is on that DVD. When you reinstall Leopard, Bootcamp Assistant will be there, and after you install windows, you just insert the Leopard DVD again to copy over the bootcamp drivers.

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I hope someone can help me please!
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Hi,
I am so glad I found your post. I tried to install Windows XP with BootCamp and was not successful. Anyway, I'm on a MacBook Pro with no no left mouse button. How do I eject the disk?
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Failed Boot Camp installation

Hi all,
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Hi there,
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Hi Steve1904,
So you have use the backup and Restore to restore your files from Windows XP to Windows 7 directly?
This should be considered not work.
If you would like to transfer files between Windows XP and Windows 7, you need another tool called Windows Easy Transfer.
See the article below if you would like to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7:
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If possible, follow the steps there, then things should be OK.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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