How do i recover disk space after deleting windows partition?

I have a macbook pro running on maverick. I removed the windows partition using bootcamp assistant, but I did not gain the disk space back. The disk space is 500gb but it's still showing 250gb?

Yes, that matters. So your partition map looks something like this:
You see one single space surrounded in blue with the disk name in the center, sort of like the above. But, you say that this space is only 250 GBs of your 500 GB drive. In other words the space in the Size field reads 250 GBs, mol? Am I correct in my understanding?
I suggest you might give this a try: repair the hard drive using Disk Utility. Then restart the computer. See if that recovers the space. It would also help if you could send me a screen image like mine but of your Disk Utility display on the same settings.

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Disk space after deleting partition

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I had partitioned my 500gb HD into two. One was used for osx (~400gb) and another ~60gb for Bootcamp to run windows.
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The top Macintosh HD says 499 GB and the bottom HD says 400GB
My question is.... Is there a way to have bottom HD combine with the above? does it matter?

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