Partitioning went wront, lost 32GB on my HDD

Hi,
Today I tried using Boot Camp assistent to partition my HDD on my iMac. During this process I got a Kernel Panic. The partitioning went wrong, and now I lost 32GB of my HDD space. Any idea how I can get it back?
In Boot Camp assistent I can't recover it and also Disk Utility is not able to see the partition. I also used Disk Inventory X to check where the 32GB are, but it can't find it... Anyone? Please?

You know, every day there is probably at least one or more that have the same situation.
Short answer: backup, you should have done so before beginning, I think that is spelled out in the pdf with BootCamp (it was with the Betas from last year). Because you likely need to use Disk Utility: Partition: to set it from "current" to one volume.
BootCamp Assistant tries to find a single unfragmented free chunk of space, in your case, that would be 32GB. After a failure, highly probably there won't be 32GB now that is free and unfragmented.
Drives that originally were formatted with Tiger and upgraded to Leopard more often have kernel panics but may be other reasons as well.
Leopard format seems to resize and divide better. Every new OS version does have underlying changes to partition map and tables.
I would install OS X to an external drive, a smallish partition, and use the rest of the drive for a 2nd backup partition, so you can boot from that, rather than use the DVD Leopard or your system came with.
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