Resizing of main Mac partition taking a while

Hi,
Recently, I removed the 450 GB partition I had for Windows 8 (Boot Camp) in order to get a full terrabyte of space on my main OSX/iMac partition. It's the only partition that's left on the hard drive. I selected the hard drive via Disk Utility, went to Partition, and resized the Macintosh HD partition back to the default amount (999.49GB) in the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.
For the past couple of hours, it's been stuck at "preparing to partition disk." Is this normal? I couldn't find any other questions similar to this one online. This is the iMac 27" late 2013 model (i5 processor, 1 TB SATA HD [not fusion]) running the preseed version of OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 for general reference.
Thanks for the help!

Try doing it from Disk Utility in the Recovery Volume.
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I recently brought a MAC RMBP (Late 2014) model which has OSX Mavrick 10.9.5 installed.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3293948?start=0&tstart=0
How ever its still not working for me.
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   2          409640       724013271   345.0 GiB   AF00 Macbook HD
   3       724013272       725282815   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
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