When I was partitioning the hard drive to install Windows, the Disk Utility changed the size of the partition to all the space left. I cancelled the partition, but now my hard drive is missing that space. Is there a way to fix this without completely wiping my hard drive?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
First, run Disk Utility, select the device and the Partition tab and post a screenshot here so we can see what we're dealing with. For example, I have two partitions and it looks like this:
Here's the screenshot of my partition. I'm able to adjust the Macintosh HD partion to make it as small as the blue area, but that's as far as it goes. Earlier today before partitioning, I had roughly 300 GB free, now I'm down to about 85 GB.
I was able to fix it by going to the Recovery partition and running the Disk Repair on the Macintosh HD. Thanks for your help!
Good show. When you cancelled, free space got erroneously marked as used. Excellent that the error was correctable with no data loss.
Hi! I've ended up with this exact problem and I've tried disk repair from disk utility in the reboot screen but it didn't work! How do you run disk repair from the recovery partition?
I'd really appreciate some help, I'm down to only 50gb because 200gb is marked as "used" when it isn't!
Missing space after partitioning
