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Hard disk space lost when Bootcamp failed

Hei guys,


I've Late 2011 MBP with High Sierra 10.13.

I tried to install Win 7 and during the process, things went wrong and finally lost 75 GB (out of 1TB) space on my HDD.

The discussion at Lost Space After Removing Bootcamp Partition is similar to mine. However, some info provided by the user in that post is different than mine. So, I'm posting the problem here again.

The info requested for in that post is as below:


Output of diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS MacbookPro-1TB 924.3 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 75.7 GB disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GSP1RMCNPRXVOL_EN_DVD *2.8 GB disk1


/dev/disk2 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.2 GB disk2

1: DOS_FAT_32 WIN7 8.2 GB disk2s1

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Output of diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

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Output of sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

Password:

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Operation not permitted

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Output of sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

fdisk: /dev/disk0: Operation not permitted

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Screenshots of Disk Utility are as below:


User uploaded file


User uploaded file


Please note that the first screenshot shows only 924.35 GB while the second one shows 1 TB.

User uploaded file


In page no 2 of the above mentioned discussion, it was discussed that OS has to be reinstalled. So, related info from my side is:


No backup of any kind (manual, time machine etc).

MacOS backup - downloading of High Sierra in progress at this moment.

FileVault turned off.


If I try to install Windows 7 in the current state of things, and with Windows partition size as 75 GB, I get the following error.


User uploaded file


If I keep the partition size as 100 GB, Bootcamp spends a lot of time at "Status: Partitioning disk..." and finally throws an error as above.


Please suggest further action.


My ultimate destination is Windows 10. When I tried to install Windows 10 via Bootcamp, I got a message that Windows 10 can't be installed. So, I am planning to install Windows 7 first and then upgrade to Windows 10. Is this right way or something went wrong during Windows 10 installation?

Regards,


Babloo

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Nov 11, 2017 4:41 AM

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Hard disk space lost when Bootcamp failed

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