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Force Shutdown during boot camp partition process. Left with no space on mac and no partition.

I opened boot camp assistant.

I clicked continue on the bootcamp introduction screen.

It asked me to select one:

a) Download the Windows support software for this Mac

b) I have the Mac OS X installation disk that came with my Mac or I have already downloaded the Windows support software for this mac to a cd, DVD or an external disk.


I selected b, and then partitioned as much as I could.

The loading bar reached approximately halfway.

My macbook pro then froze with the spinning rainbow of death as my cursor.

I force shutdown by holding down the power button.

I turned the computer back on, and I saw that my mac only has 9 GB left.

I check Disk Utility. It says 100% of hard drive is my macbook pro, no windows.


Any fix? Help me get my space back. thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 5 years old macintosh

Posted on Jan 2, 2013 12:10 AM

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Jan 2, 2013 12:12 AM in response to Gumile

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It could be that the space used for Windows is free space, so you don't see it on a volume.


1. Open Disk Utility, select the hard disk at the top of the sidebar and go to Partition bar.


2. Select Macintosh HD in the partition bar, click the bottom right corner, drag it to the end of the bar and press Apply to recover the lost space

Force Shutdown during boot camp partition process. Left with no space on mac and no partition.

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