LT. Cerqueira
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Q: HD space lost after disk utility froze.

Hey guys, I have a little problem and I think you guys can help me with it.

Yesterday I was trying to install windows 7 and while I was partitioning my HD, Disk utility froze and I was forced to quit it.

When I opened the app again, I noticed 222gb were gone! I tried googling a solution but couldn't find anything that would help me.

diskutil.png

I honestly don't know what to do anymore, so if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 9:20 AM

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Q: HD space lost after disk utility froze.

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 20, 2016 9:22 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 20, 2016 9:22 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    Please post the output of

     

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

  • by LT. Cerqueira,

    LT. Cerqueira LT. Cerqueira Sep 20, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 20, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Loner T

    Here you go.

    diskutil2.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 20, 2016 10:21 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 20, 2016 10:21 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    Can you use Disk Utility and convert this Free Space (the entry after GPT entry 3) to a FAT32 partition? If you can, BC Assistant will be able to coalesce it and create a single OSX. If this does not work, there are other methods.

     

    DU is not designed to create Bootcamp partitions, but BC Assistant is.

  • by LT. Cerqueira,

    LT. Cerqueira LT. Cerqueira Sep 20, 2016 11:02 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 20, 2016 11:02 AM in response to Loner T

    I could not use Disk utility to convert the free space because it didn't give me the option to select the free space, but I used another software called Paragon Hard Disk Manager and with that I was able to convert it to FAT32.

    BC assistant then gave me the option to remove the partition and restore it to 500gb, but at the end it gave me this message:

    diskutil3.png

    But when I checked Paragon Hard Disk Manager it showed me this:

    diskutil4.png

    Disk Utility however, still tells me that I have only 277gb available.

    diskutil5.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 20, 2016 12:09 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 20, 2016 12:09 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    Can you post the output of the GPT command again? The Paragon HDM may cause more issues. Can you avoid it for the time being?

  • by LT. Cerqueira,

    LT. Cerqueira LT. Cerqueira Sep 20, 2016 4:30 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 20, 2016 4:30 PM in response to Loner T

    Sure thing, here you go.

     

    diskutil6.png

     

    Sorry about Paragon hdm, didn't think it would make a difference.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 20, 2016 4:58 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 20, 2016 4:58 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    Can you boot into Internet Recovery (boot holding Command+Opt+R), and click on Utilities -> Terminal and run

     

    diskutil repairDisk disk0

     

    Copy (Command+C) the screen output, exit Terminal, start Safari, Paste (Command+V) the screen output as a reply.

     

    This should correct the difference between the GPT and Disk Utility.

  • by LT. Cerqueira,

    LT. Cerqueira LT. Cerqueira Sep 23, 2016 1:22 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 23, 2016 1:22 PM in response to Loner T

    Hi, sorry for the late reply.

    Recovery mode is taking forever to load. It gets stuck at the apple logo screen. Is this normal? Should I just leave it for a couple of hours until it boots up?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 23, 2016 2:02 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 23, 2016 2:02 PM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    If you are using a wireless connection, please try a wired connection to the network. It should not take very long, but depends on the speed of your connection. You are downloading about 2GB of a disk image.

  • by LT. Cerqueira,

    LT. Cerqueira LT. Cerqueira Sep 24, 2016 12:19 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 24, 2016 12:19 AM in response to Loner T

    Thanks, the problem was indeed the wi-fi.

    Anyway, here's what I got after running RepairDisk:

     

    -bash-3.2# diskutil repairDisk disk0

    Repairing the partition map might erase disk0s1, proceed? (y/N) y

    Started partition map repair on disk0

    Checking prerequisites

    Checking the partition list

    Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required

    Checking for an EFI system partition

    Checking the EFI system partition's size

    Checking the EFI system partition's file system

    Checking the EFI system partition's folder content

    Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces

    Checking booter partitions

    Checking booter partition disk0s3

    Repairing file system

    Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume

    Checking extents overflow file

    Checking catalog file

    Checking multi-linked files

    Checking catalog hierarchy

    Checking extended attributes file

    Checking volume bitmap

    Checking volume information

    The volume Recovery HD appears to be OK

    File system check exit code is 0

    Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required

    Reviewing boot support loaders

    Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions

    Updating Windows boot.ini files as required

    The partition map appears to be OK

    Finished partition map repair on disk0

    -bash-3.2#

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 24, 2016 6:19 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira
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    Sep 24, 2016 6:19 AM in response to LT. Cerqueira

    Can you post the output of

     

    diskutil list