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:
- No Boot Camp showing in the MacBook Pro drives list (only Network, and Macintosh HD).
- Only 690 Gb of storage on my 750 Gb HD (of which only 31 Gb are still free)
- 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.
- 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