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Q: Removed Boot Camp but cannot recover partition space

I removed Boot Camp from my MacBook Pro today and now am unable to reclaim the partition space (60 Gb) that was allocated to it. I was at 3% available space on the MBP partition.

 

I had originally been trying to reallocate the space using Camptune, but was getting an error message:

 

Mac OS X filesystem verification failed. Please, repair MAC OS X volume and try again.

 

I tried repairing the disk, but was not successful during several attempts earlier in the week.

 

Today, after doing some research here, I tried using Bootcamp Assistant, following advice from Altier499 and Niel (Open the Boot Camp Assistant in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and return the drive to a single partition setup.) I got the following message:

 

Your disk could not be restored to a single partition. An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partion.

 

When I clicked <OK> and then <Go back>, I got the following message:

 

The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned. You must have at least 28 Gb of free space available.

 

I deleted some files (got to 30 Gb free space) and after doing some research here, attempted a couple of other things. And now I must confess I'm not sure exactly what steps I took. Now, I'm left with:

  1. No Boot Camp showing in the MacBook Pro drives list (only Network, and Macintosh HD).
  2. Only 690 Gb of storage on my 750 Gb HD (of which only 31 Gb are still free)
  3. No ability to use Boot Camp Assistance to remove Boot Camp (I guess I did that somehow somewhere along the line), just to install Windows.
  4. No ability to access Camp Tune (I assume because I no longer have Boot Camp on the HD).

 

So… what do I do from here? This whole exercise was to restore the HD to a single partition so I would have all the space available for my Mac programs and files since I have a Toshiba laptop for the programs I need that aren't available on the Mac platform.

 

I was hoping not to have to wipe everything clean and restore everything. If I have to go that route, could someone point me to some instructions? I have Time Machine backups, the latest from last night, before I started this fiasco and comedy of errors.

 

Thanks so much for any help you can offer!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Dec 20, 2013 10:59 PM

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