I messed up while installing Boot Camp and now I can't restore my drive to a single partition.
Hey all, I have a late 2013 iMac on 10.9.4. Just got it a few days ago and tried to install my copy of 8.1 on it.
After taking a while to create a bootable USB disk, I partitioned ~470GBs through Boot Camp Assistant to use as a Windows partition. Long story short, during my install, I ran into some problems while choosing the drive to install Windows onto. Now I remember when installing Windows 7 on my MBP, deleting the partition and reformatting did the trick, so I tried that. Windows gave me a prompt saying it will create new partitions for system files. I didn't think much of it, so I said sure. After all that, still ran into some problems.
Was about to give up to I rebooted into OSX to restore my drive, but was met with this error:
I checked my disk utility and I had 2 extra partitions--disk 1s4 and 1s5 or something similar. Managed to get rid of one, but the other one was impossible to get rid of, despite my efforts. Now I have my main partition, a disk1s4 partition I can't get rid off, and and 478.09GBs of free space that I can't get back at the moment.
So. I messed up. What are my options now?
Here's what it says in diskutil list:
Thanks guys, any help is appreciated.
I tried to restore the previous session as I've done so several times before, but I was not given the option. It simply did not show up on my browser history. I also tried to restore a previous version of the sessionstore file, but it did not do anything except erase my browser history from the restoration point. Also, after i restored the sessionstore file, the ability to see my "ghost" tabs that were open is now gone, so I assume it's lost forever. I deleted the sessionstore file before restoring it, and put it back into the folder, but that did not restore my history. What am I doing wrong?
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