When I restore my mac in time machine, does it restore drive partititions

OK so heres my story.
I had XP on a partion on my mac running through boot camp. I didn't have any vital information so I decided to just delete the partition and start over with windows 7. I deleted the partition with disk utility instead of the bootcamp assistant. I guess thats a no no! The partition is now gone but I didn't gain the extra 20 gb of storage back. I tried sliding the box in disk utility to gain more hard drive space but it says it failed do to some file error. I was told I have to restore my entire drive.
I just backed up my computer after this happened so my question is this: If I restore my laptop with the most current backup, will I still have the same problem on the hard drive or will it automatically give me my 20 GB back. How should I go about restoring my computer safely and not having any partitions on my primary drive?
Thanks,
Caleb

Caleb Kingston wrote:
OK so heres my story.
I had XP on a partion on my mac running through boot camp. I didn't have any vital information so I decided to just delete the partition and start over with windows 7. I deleted the partition with disk utility instead of the bootcamp assistant. I guess thats a no no!
yes, it is.
The partition is now gone but I didn't gain the extra 20 gb of storage back. I tried sliding the box in disk utility to gain more hard drive space but it says it failed do to some file error. I was told I have to restore my entire drive.
I just backed up my computer after this happened so my question is this: If I restore my laptop with the most current backup, will I still have the same problem on the hard drive or will it automatically give me my 20 GB back. How should I go about restoring my computer safely and not having any partitions on my primary drive?
you should do the following. boot from the snow leopard DVD, start disk utility and reformat the whole internal drive. select the whole drive (model, not name), click on the partition tab. set the number of partitions to 1 and hit apply. once3 the partitioning is done quit disk utility and slect "restore system from backup" from the Utilities menu. proceed with the restore. this will restore your system onto the full drive.
Thanks,
Caleb

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