Partitions messed up

A few hors ago, I was trying to install Ubuntu along side my Mac OS. After making a bootable drive and everything, I decided to make a partition to install and boot Ubuntu into using Disk Utility.
I allocated 60GB as a partition and made it free space. After taking around 20-30 minutes, the partition failed. But the free space still shows up in Disk Utility but now as 260GB! It won't let me drag Mac HD into the free space either! When I click verify disk this is what I get
Verifying partition map for “APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384 Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
Checking storage system
Checking volume.
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Invalid Disk Label @ 499231322112: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499235516416: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499239710720: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499243905024: I/O error, invalid field value
Logical Volume Group 6F040A78-D178-4575-A6B0-9ADD413E6404 on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 16 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4170: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4169: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4168: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4167: invalid extent
No valid commit checkpoint found
The volume 6F040A78-D178-4575-A6B0-9ADD413E6404 was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking storage systemChecking volume.
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Invalid Disk Label @ 499231322112: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499235516416: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499239710720: I/O error, invalid field value
Invalid Disk Label @ 499243905024: I/O error, invalid field value
Logical Volume Group 6F040A78-D178-4575-A6B0-9ADD413E6404 on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 16 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4170: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4169: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4168: invalid extent
Continue scanning metadata for an older checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 29C13D02-30B0-49DC-A09E-2CB117AF204D
Load and verify EA098A5C-9910-4877-88ED-C47443AA8542
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Unable to bootstrap transaction group 4167: invalid extent
No valid commit checkpoint found
The volume 6F040A78-D178-4575-A6B0-9ADD413E6404 was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
I try clicking Repair Disk and it shows me an error saying this disk needs to be repaired!
I booted in using Recovery HD and it still won't let me repair disk! What do I do?? I'm very confused and can't understand!
^^^ My Partition status
^^^ On clicking repair disk
PLEASE HELP!!!!!

A couple of follow up questions.
1. Does this external hard drive have to be completely blank? I have an external hard drive but it has stuff on it.
2. Say I manage to clone and boot in, do I just erase Macintosh HD entirely? And this will keep Mountain Lion etc. all intact?
3. And how does one boot in from a USB external? I've done it with bootable pen drives but never with files on an external.
Sorry if some of these may same idiotic and rather simplistic but I still can't figure out how a simple dual boot went wrong and so I'm a bit nervy and don't want to mess anything up further.
Thanks!

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I resolved the issue. I re-installed the card reader. It would then 'see' the card, but still wouldn't let me write anything to it... Though the card was showing by the amount of data available that data was actually going onto the card, the palm still wasn't seeing it. I did not think to take the card out of the Palm when I did the hard reset and somehow the SD Card got corrupted or the partitions messed up. I could not reformat the card while in the Palm since the Palm was not able to recognize it at all. I took it out, used Disk Utilities and wiped the SD card, put it back in the Palm and was them able to reformat the card. It has worked fine after that.

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Hi Everybody
I have this Iomega external hd formatted to use with Time Machine but I would like to also use it for storage...I suppose that I'll need a partition for that but can I add it now and leave the existent backup volume untouched? Could you kindly explain how can I do it?
Thanks a lot
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Sorry if my English is not always clear, it is a second language for me. Be glad you do not have to hear me try to speak English!
What I was trying to say above was that your TM backup is a critical piece of data. It is the only other copy that you have mentioned of everything of value to you on your HDD. Since you are determined at this point to use the ext HDD for both TM and another storage, then you need another partition.
A program such as iPartition says that it can create a new partition on your ext HDD without affecting the current partition, in this case TM. But there is no guarantee that the will be the case. While making the other partition an app such as iPartition could mess up the other partition and at some point in the future when your int HDD has perhaps bailed on you and you loose the data and then you check the TM backup and find that that has also bailed because creating the new partition messed it up, why take the chance?
Just use Disk Utility and erase the ext HDD and create your two partitions the size you want and then make a fresh TM backup onto the TM partition.
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I have an HP pavillian G6 that I have totally messed up.
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I have tried loading a windows 8 recovery disk, but it stops halfway through loading. Interestingly enough, it will load all the way if I have the hard drive out, but that doesn't do me any good.
I have tried running a repair with a Windows 8 Install disk, but it cannot find the OS.
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I currently get the Recovery screen. A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Error Code: 0xc0000225
I could format and reinstall Windows 8, but I want to use the license that was preinstalled (no discs came with the laptop) instead of the license with this disc. I would not mind ordering a recovery CD from HP, but I am not sure if it will work, considering the state my partitions are in. This is a brand new Laptop, so I don't mind starting over from scratch, there are no personal files, just a few apps that are easily replaced.
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It appears that resizing the partition has interfered with how the notebook was configured to boot.
To get around this, the HDD will need to be restored using the recovery disks themselves. You can use the recovery disks you made if you made them before the issue occurred. If not, they will need to be ordered from HP. The number for the U.S. and Canada is 1-800-474-6836. The recovery disks will work regardless of the partition configuration as long as the hard drive was not converted to a dynamic disk. If it has been converted to a dynamic disk, then the drive will need to be revered back to a standard disk. I do not believe that is the case.
It may be best to start with wiping the hard drive free of any changes that have been made. This guide for KillDisk should help with the process. Page 10 lists how to get the free version to accomplish the task of wiping the hard drive.
Once the hard drive is wiped, it should be ready to be recovered using the recovery disks.
Let me know what happens.
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Have I messed up my partitions?

Hi,
Just wondering if any of you can shed some light on an issue that's bothering me. I think I might be missing an old partition from my HDD (a 512gb SSD).
I installed Windows 7 last week under bootcamp, giving it a measly 25gb. This proved to be a massive mistake and I'm certainly paying for it now. Realising the problems this caused I decided to try and extend the partition.
So in OSX I lowered the Mac partition and booted windows, where I used mini tool partition wizard to expand it to 80gb. This, did 'work' but somehow I ended up with less space. In Windows my bootcamp partition was indeed flagged as 80gb BUT it was all instantly used up by seemingly nothing, giving me a remaining 1gb. Something was amiss.
I decided to restart windows, thinking it may clear some temp files or something. As it was shutting down, Windows updates started and got stuck midway through. I hard booted the macbook.
This completely frazzled the 25gb/80gb partition and I was no longer able to boot into Windows. So using this tutorial:[url]http://nerdr.com/tag/fix-bootcamp-partition-not-booting-mac-and-macbook-pro/[/url] I managed to have Windows show up again and booted into it.
As I expected Windows needed repairing. So in the absence of a recovery drive I decided to just wipe the partition and start again.
Back in OSX- I went to Disk Utility just to check the partitions. There was an unidentified gap between OSX and Bootcamp- so I tried to expand OSX back into this space- it wouldn't work. The partition was unsuccessful each time. so I created another OSX partition in this space, which worked fine- no more gaps.
I then started up the bootcamp assistant again to try and remove Windows. The assistant got stuck on re-partitionng. So I went back to Disk Utility and noticed I could use the little minus symbol to remove both Bootcamp and the extra OSX partitions- which I did. I then quit out of the useless bootcamp assistant.
Success! I was now back with no bootcamp, and a full 500gb OSX partition.
SO now I used the Bootcamp assistant again to create 100gb of space for installing windows. Which all went well.
Upon completion I booted into Windows- where the Bootcamp partition is showing as 92gb (8gb is acceptable to be missing in some mysterious windows filesystem) fine.
However, under Windows- my OSX partition (and 'macintosh HD' under My Computer) is showing as 372gb. Confused, I installed Partition Wizard again, which states that the total HD capacity is 465gb, and that OSX is indeed on a 372gb partition.
I rebooted into OSX. In OSX, everything worked out perfectly, my Mac partition is at the correct 400gb and the Bootcamp partition is at 99gb.
Strange then, that in Windows it shows up at 372gb- which possibly accounts for the 25gb parition I messed up when I first installed Windows?
Can you guys boot into Windows 7, if you have it, and tell me if your hard drive is missing 30+gb from the 'Macintosh HD' drive capacity. The partition you allowed OSX?
I'm mainly worried about using up 372gb in OSX and reaching an invisible limit.
Thanks, hope this one isn't too long winded.
Also, an interesting sidenote, the partitions are labelled with start and end LBA's as such:
1: 1 - 409639
2: 409640 - 782476111
3: 782476112 - 783745647
4: 783747072 - 977104895 (Bootcamp)
Note that the numbers follow on from each other, until we reach the end of 3 and start of 4- could this be my missing space?

As long as the hardware is the same you won't have a problem with Windows re-installation.
And as long as the drive is formatted before you re-install OSX there should be no repercussions.
Just make sure that you give Windows enough space this time I for one have done the same thing as you - exactly the same thing (except that I bought Camptune X first and used that), and had to re-install everything.
It's a shame that the restriction on further post-Bootcamp partitioning isn't more prominently displayed. It's a tough lesson to learn (and seems so needless!).
But at least you get a sparkling new installation

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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.

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