I have less space than I should

I recently deleted my 50 gb parallels partition, but I didn't get any space back. My Macintosh HD says that it's size is 171.15 gb, and If I try to make a boot camp partition, It only says 80 gb left (250 gb ssd). But If I go to more info, It says 60 gb used. When I used super dupe rto back it up though, It backed up 171.15 gb. Any ideas? I had 125 gb before I installed windows with parallels 5 days ago.

> I recently deleted my 50 gb parallels partition
Unless you were using a physical partition created by Boot Camp Assistant so you could dual boot and run Windows natively, all you did was remove a file.
And the way to remove Boot Camp Assistant partitions is, from BCA again.
If you used Disk Utility, you should try Lion Recovery or your OS X DVD to "stretch" the main HFS volume to the full hard drive (SSD) space. But Disk Utility is not how you properly want to 'delete' a partition.
And based on SD, it sounds like you still have Parallels.
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