Need to repartition HDD. No DVD drive available - what now?

Question

Hi. I posted this question here (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10691580#10691580), but was requested to start a new thread...
An Apple Authorized Repair facility installed my new drive yesterday. They were supposed to create 2 partitions for me, but failed to do so. Instead, they just cloned my old hard drive over to the new one. This really ***, because Spotlight and System Profiler say that my disk capacity is only 200GB and available disk space 40GB (same as original drive).
What do I need to do to create 2 partitions, one with FAT32 that is 25GB (for both Windows and Chrome OS/Ubuntu) and the other 615GB partition for OS X 10.6?
The important caveat is that my Samsung Superdrive is dysfunctional, as discussed in this long thread.
When I now try to use Disk Utility to Partition the drive, I get the error:
"PARTION FAILED Partition failed with the error: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed"
And when I try to use Bootcamp Assistant to partition the drive, I get this error:
"THE DISK CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED. Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Does this mean that Apple Computer has totally screwed me over? First they gave me a faulty Super drive, and then they install a hard drive without properly formatting the partition? What should I do now?

Answer 1

Got my MBP back again today. As described here, I have a new Matshita Superdrive and it works perfectly. Mac Gallery (the Apple Authorized Repair facility) also created the 25GB FAT partition I requested. However, they did not address the 640 GB HDD only reflecting the 200GB cloned old HDD size. I need to leave for 6 months tomorrow morning at 6am, so I need to trouble/shoot this on my own now
Following advice from Pondini, I went into Disk Utility. When I attempt to do a repair disk, I received the following error message:
{quote:title=Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD"}{quote}
This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
and then the following details are returned:
Verify Disk error:
Verifying volume "Macintosh HD"
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid key length
The volume could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
Verifying volume "Untitled 2"
The volume Untitled 2 appears to be OK
Booting into safe mode didn't solve the Verify Disk problem, as recommended in the Apple support article.
Now that my Superdrive is working, I did a boot from the OS X Install DVD by pressing C during restart. From there, I clicked on Utilities menu from above, when the "Install Mac OS X Select the disk where you want to install Mac OS X" HDD selection GUI. Both HDD partitions had yellow exclamation marks on them and the size was wrong.
Opening Disk Utility, I did a Verify Disk and got through the steps where I was told that the disk should be repaired, but when I clicked on repair disk, I was informed that "Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
Good thing I insisted on getting my original HDD back! Mac Gallery assumed I didn't want it and didn't give it back to me (don't know what plans they had for it!).
So, I am out another several hours of formatting, partitioning, re-installs, etc.
Anything in particular I need to heed as I proceed?
Thanks for the tip Pondini!