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Missing part of my storage on my hard drive, bootcamp install failed.

Earlier today I was trying to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro Retina (Late 2012)(El Capitan), and after my computer restarted to go to the windows page so I could install it, i found that there was no "BOOTCAMP" partition for me to select to install the windows program on. My computer had 128GB of storage capacity so i used 32GB for the Windows partition and kept 88GB for my Mac OS side. When i logged back into my mac os user, i found that i only had 88GB of storage. I went into disk utility and there is no BOOTCAMP partition. it only brings up my mac user with its 88GB of storage. Its like the other 32GB just vanished. I have tried everything I could find online, but it was no help. If you have a solution on how to get my storage space back that would be great and also if you had a fix for what i was doing wrong when i tried to instal windows 10, that would be great also.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Dec 14, 2015 2:17 AM

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Dec 14, 2015 10:58 PM in response to Loner T

Last login: Mon Dec 14 23:56:28 on ttys000

Colemans-MBP:~ colemanmerrill$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Untitled 120.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Coleman's MacBook +88.1 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

20511ACB-75A2-4D70-BC5B-4EEBDE6335D5

Unlocked Encrypted

Colemans-MBP:~ colemanmerrill$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 8A552094-B059-4446-A7AF-407164D86502

=========================================================

Name: Untitled

Status: Online

Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

Free Space: 32012705792 B (32.0 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume B437CB24-2EB1-4403-96F7-AE53B60F25B5

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family A7459A88-B8C7-4526-B6F2-36EAC00C500E

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Type: AES-XTS

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Conversion Status: Complete

High Level Queries: Fully Secure

| Passphrase Required

| Accepts New Users

| Has Visible Users

| Has Volume Key

|

+-> Logical Volume 20511ACB-75A2-4D70-BC5B-4EEBDE6335D5

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 88108040192 B (88.1 GB)

Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)

Revert Status: Reboot required

LV Name: Coleman's MacBook

Volume Name: Coleman's MacBook

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Colemans-MBP:~ colemanmerrill$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 235298960 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

235708600 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236978136 7

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

Colemans-MBP:~ colemanmerrill$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0








Is this what you were talking about?

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User profile for user: Loner T
Loner T
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Dec 15, 2015 1:13 PM in response to colemanfromtexas

Yes. (and you did swimmingly. 😎).


colemanfromtexas wrote:


Colemans-MBP:~ colemanmerrill$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 8A552094-B059-4446-A7AF-407164D86502

=========================================================

Name: Untitled

Status: Online

Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)

Free Space: 32012705792 B (32.0 GB)

This is where your "stuck" space is hiding.


A. The less-labour-but-more-time method...


1. Backup OSX using Time Machine - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support . Please see Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support for types of disks that can be used with TM.

2. Use Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R) - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support. Erase your whole internal disk.

3. Restore the system from the backup in step 1 - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support


B. The more-labour-less-time method is shown in this link - Lost storage space on my mac .

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Loner T
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Dec 15, 2015 3:47 PM in response to colemanfromtexas

The second part is considered an 'atomic' operation from a user perspective. You only see that the disk is being partitioned. You have no visible control over it directly. This has happened in several cases, especially on El Capitan. It could have been prevented by verifying/repairing the disk, but the console messages indicating the possible causes of failure may be lost by now.


Run Applications -> Utilities -> Console and put disk in the search box and check the messages for any errors.

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