Help, mistake made in Disk Utility

I hit Delete Free Space thinking it would do something else... It used all my free space up. I need help on how to get it back. It said something like It puts a 0 for each file so no hidden deleted files could remain on the HD. I now have 0 free space LoL

Using disk utility to change the size of the partitions on the hard drive results in all your data being lost. You can reformat with a free partition.
Please note you'll will not be able to use the free space at least with the disk utility. Disk utility will not allow you to reclaim the space with out the loss of all your data . You can use the terminal commands to reclaim the space or Linux tools.
From the point of view of disk utility, free space is a partition. So, if you want one data partition & one free partition set up on your hard drive. Choose to have two partitions. click on the second partition. Look at the format field. Click on the double arrow and select free space.
Robert

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The following Knowledge Base article as a great step by step instructional on how to change the password for the account:
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