Power Outage During Bootcamp Set-up

I was creating a windows partion in the bootcamp assistant, when the power went out. Now the bootcamp assistant doesn't show a windows partion, and it won't create a new one. Bootcamp appears to want to remove teh partion it didn't create.

You are in a really tough position. I would suggest for the moment to back up all your personal data in the eventuality that you need to reformat your HDD. But before we do all that, would you mind posting screenshots of the message that your are seeing in bootcamp (If you don't know how to take a screenshot look at this web article)?
Those screenshots would definitively help me and other community members to better assist you.
Let us know!

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hhaammrr wrote:
I copied each track and pasted it into a new file. I saved each new song file, and thought it would be safe to delete the tracks I had copied from the original file.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#saveasarchive
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Message was edited by: Bchubak

Bchubak wrote:
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No Internet during power outage - Isn't the battery in the NTU supposed to keep the circuit up?

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Vuser wrote:
During yesterday's power outage in Northern Virginia I lost all Internet connectivity; yet my NTU battery was up but my Verizon router was saying the cable wan was down. Why?
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Why, Why, Why
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