Please Help! Lost 60GB deleting Win XP using BootCamp!

[MacMacWhosThere]

Hi,
My hair is turning grey trying to get My 60GB back which I lost while restoring my HardDrive back to Mac using BootCamp. I originally had a 120GB Harddrive, then partitioned it using bootcamp, giving half to Win XP)

Yesteday I had Win XP running on my Macbook. Then I set the time/date back so I can use BootCamp Assistant. I Clicked on Restore. And I rebooted. When I rebooted, It booted in OSX and when I checked my HD space, it said 60GB OSX, and that was it. When I check the Total HardDrive Space, it says 111.4GB on the harddrive, but only 60GB shows as OSX. The other 60GB is invisible. IT doesnt even Show that the other 60GB (FAT32) exists! I tried different programs like iPartition to try and format the "invisible 60GB" and it just shows me a HD with 111.4GB (from the 120GB) that I cannot format or partition.

I posted some screenshots of what I get using Disk Utility (a few posts below) .. and evidence that my harddrive is a 120GB... and not just a 60GB.


Any Ideas?

Thanks a ton in advanced!

[MacMacWhosThere]

anyone? if you give me a script, i can type it in... going into single user mode i there is a way... ?

[MacMacWhosThere]

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[nixgeek]

Have you tried using Disk Utility to see if it will recognize the FAT32 partition? If so, then you can possible mount the partition to backup any files that you have on that partition and then wipe it. As for trying to resize the Mac partition to use up the remaining space, the only thing I've found so far is by using the command line in Terminal and using the diskutil command. You can follow the instructions on the following pages.

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/n...sizing_volumes
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?st...60405181503909
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/ap...rtitioning.php

Here's a video that discusses the process on doing the above procedure with Tiger:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?vid...WoyHnR3-9Vj-LD

Mind you, this is the only free way of doing this to my knowledge. I haven't been able to find anything commercial that would make the repartitioning easier through the GUI, but I'm sure i might have missed one. I'll keep looking, but I do suggest you give Google a try as well.

Hope this helps.

[MacMacWhosThere]

thanks dude! will try... this is what I am getting with Disk Utility:

[nixgeek]

Have you tried highlighting the "111.8 FUJITSU..." list (as you have highlighted in the picture above) and then clicking on Partitions? It's possible that it might list the missing partition as "unallocated" and you could probably find out the disk partition there. Then you could proceed to resize non-destructively using the links I provided above.

[MacMacWhosThere]

yup tried that too... i actually highlighted it and then selected "APPLY" to make a current partition, but about a minute into the process it says "Partition Failed"....

I just did the following.... and got an error at the end when I tried to partition... its in Order..:

[MacMacWhosThere]

Ok... I clicked on Verify Disk for the Macintosh HD and Here are the Error Messages I received... I mean I knew something was wrong,.. but maybe this will help anyone reading this to figure out what to do next. By the way, it wont let me Click on Repair Disk.
Thanks.