Where does boot camp put the partition space?

I tried doing bootcamp, partitioned 100GB, but was taking over an hour, everyone says a few minutes, so i quit, and now that 100GB is somewhere, but not partioned because disk utility just shows the 1, I want to know how to get it back, when I look at storage in about this mac, it says i have 27 out of 500, which is fine because that should be it, but that 100 is somewhere, please help

Unfortunately no, I just have the one, theres no partition, idk what it did with the 100, I am stupid and quit out before it finished not realizing this could happen.

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