"Ghostly Partition" after un-installing Boot Camp

I used Boot Camp Assistant to delete the Boot Camp partition in which I had Window 7. I did it after re-installing Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine in Parallels. Although Boot Camp Assistant erased the partition, it couldn't return the Mac HD to a single full-size drive ---If fact, it couldn't finish the job; it got stuck, so I had to force quit---. Now my Mac HD size is equal to the physical HDD capacity less the size of the partition in which Boot Camp was. In Drive Utilities, a rectangle shows in grey the area used by Mac HDD, which is considerably lower than the full rectangle. The differece is in white. I seems like a "ghostly partition". Any advise?

Thanks Mende1, Probably I misread the chart, but definetively my Mac HD size has shrunk after unistalling Boot Camp. Here is the image I mentioned in my first post:

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Okay, after rereading a number of messages in this forum, I think that I finally understand what is going on. Namely, if I want to install MS Windows 7 on a drive other than #1, then I would:
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Hi All,
First let me apologize for this long-winded post and also for my lack of basic knowledge when it comes to mac computer skills.
I would like to install windows 7 on a brand new 500gb drive in a brand new mac pro.
I was reading through the installation & setup up guide for boot camp and was stonewalled on page 6 it says;
“If your computer has more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.”
Ok that makes sense but if I remove the first drive how do I install boot camp since the first drive contains boot camp on it?
The next question I have is; Can I make the whole 500gb drive one partition that will have boot camp, windows 7 and all the windows files on it or does it have to have just boot camp and windows 7?
Thanks
Mike

Shutdown - pull OS X drive(s) - continue with install.
You'll have to change to NTFS when you get to where to install.
At that point you can even format or partition.
As for the Assistant, well, some install Windows 7 on a drive without it (that can't be done with XP) and just leave one drive and boot from Win 7 DVD.
"that will have boot camp...."
There IS NO "boot camp." The assistant modified the partition table to include a standard MBR for booting Windows. And that would be on the #2 500GB.
Until you install the Apple setup.exe drivers and services after Windows is installed from your OS X DVD, there is nothing in or on Windows that is faintly about boot camp. Unfortunate term. It also gets to become a control panel in Windows to change the default startup OS (why not call it Apple OS Switcher / Apple Startup Disk).
There will be AppleTimeServices and AppleOSSwitcher services along with HAL and device drivers to enable them in Device Manager.
As for lowered numbered and first drive bay, they must think Mac Pro owners are locked into and only boot from drive bay #1. and that Assistant is a very limited not very smart partitioning tool is true.
So run Assistant but instead of restarting with the DVD and install, just shutdown. Pull all the other drives but 500GB. Then boot off the DVD.

How to create extra partitions for windows 7 after installing boot camp

hello
i am pretty new at imac so bare with me and i really need help.
IMAC
OS X version 10.9.5 ( i think its os X mavericks ??)
iMac 21. inch , Late 2013
iMac model identifier iMac 14,1
i installed boot camp windows 7 and it works perfectly, after i tried to create two partition using disk utility for windows 7 (ms-dos) format because i really want to separate my files on other partition instead of everything on Boot Camp drive. after i restart choosing windows OS i cannot go back to windows 7.
i hold option on the keyboard but does not show window 7 so i went back to Apple ox s , found my boot camp hd on the desktop with files in it. checked boot camp assistance showing
" The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. "
i read alot of article about but i don't seem to understand much about
i understand alot of people created these kind of topics
please if someone can help me solve this problem again
i only want an apple os , boot camp for windows 7 and 2 extra partitions for storage , my hard drive is 1TB
thank you

Last login: Mon Feb 16 16:11:46 on console
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ 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            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.0 GB     disk1s1
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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1952255592     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1953525128           7
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
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I'll assume you don't have a backup available that you made before your mishap, because you didn't mention it.
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I stopped counting how many times I have tried to get this up and running but I followed a whole bunch of 'how to's' on the net, including the official Appple guide, but I always end up with a black screen. I insytalled it from scratch using both, Apple drivers on CD and SD card and I can confirn that they installed correctly during my last try. That time I first installed Win Vista, then upgraded to Win 7. I took out the install DVD after first restart and left the SD card in its slot (correctly named, as suggested by Apple). the installation finished, the screen went dark for about 5 min, then the computer rebooted, the screen went dark again for another few min and after that the vomputer restarted again but this time all stayed dark and nothing happened for the better part of an hour.
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I presume that you've followed the instructions for sideloading the iMac Windows drivers into your install via USB stick? (wasn't aware the EFI recognized the SD slot as storage on boot. Now i know)
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL995
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Well, at least my Windows won't boot after renaming them to *.sys.old.
But anyway, these two drivers aren't the cause, instead it's actually BootCamp.exe and/or the trackpad or keyboard drivers.
This guy had the exact same problem and the 'solution' was to disable BootCamp.exe.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10301692#10301692
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After installing Boot Camp which I will never do again, my iMac (on the OS X side) no longer recognizes my stock Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse automatically, until I press a button on the keyboard and wait 5 seconds, click the trackpad and wait 5 seconds, or click the mouse and wait 5 seconds.
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B. I cannot hold Option to select a boot device (or choose Windows/Mac for example) because the computer doesn't recognize the keyboard until OS X boots and I press a key.
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I hade a small Windows 7 partition , so after updating to mountain lion , I wanted resize win partition .
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junihh wrote:
Thanks XNAV for your answer but i better get Parallels, because i love the option that i can use the windows from PC as independent window, like a Mac window.
Thanks again.
LATE post - for those who come after:
Boot Camp REQUIRES a single, JOURNALLED HFS+ partition (created after midnight on a full moon's wane...*grin*...It's very Particular...) as a starting point - so you better give it one.
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: I've been in this Industry a loong time. I know a lot of people... I will always disclaim/note any pecuniary interest(s) which I know of (or remember) that're *closely relevant* BUT, MY advice will always be based on whether I'd recommend to Product or Company to a good friend -never- on $ or other considerations (I may dislike a bloke intensely but his Company may put out great software. If it does, I'll commend it to you)
-simple example: I have some Apple shares. I could even own soft MircoSoft shares.. or other companies... I Don't manage all that and couldn't tell you so I'm not going to Iist them. with over 35 years in, in a very Busy Oz-based career in everything from Mainframes to Micros, I've encountered just about everyone some time *grin* - some grrls n Boys I knew way back are VIPs running multnationals... many, I've lost track of. You can trust the statement above: my integrity has never been for sale (any offers ? :]) If the product's good, I'll say so - for -that- reason. (I think I'll put this Epic in my profile and simply POINT to it... :))

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