Bootcamp just messed up my HD

[1337z0r]

Hey,

I was just setting up bootcamp on my MacBook, while it was partitioning the OS X crashed. So I held the power button down, turned it back on and I am missing 20GB on my hard drive which is what I dedicated to bootcamp. I have also booted into the my disk by pressing alt at startup and the 20 GB partition does not show up under the windows installation. I've also gone into bootcamp setup utility and the partition is not there.

Any ideas on how to get the space back on my HDD

 

[J1234]

Boot up with your OS X install disk, then at the top go to Utilities > Disk Utility. Then, repair disk and repair permissions.

Then restart. (Utilities > Startup Disk > Select OS X, then restart.)

 

[1337z0r]

Hey thanks, just done that and it worked perfect. But went to setup bootcamp partition again and it crashed like before, might try it with a different patition size this time.

 

[J1234]

Hey thanks, just done that and it worked perfect. But went to setup bootcamp partition again and it crashed like before, might try it with a different patition size this time.

Happened to me too.

I just created the partition in Disk Utility from the install disk, then selected the partition when I set up Windows.

 

[Caged]

Mine did this loads until I gave up. Boot Camp assistant is a huge heap of crap.

 

[1337z0r]

I gave up and reinstalled OS X and its works nows, just installing the drivers for vista 64bit. Never happened to me before today, maybe they will fix it soon.

 

[Nitrojan]

What happened to the 'Macs just work' saying

 

[Simian]

What happened to the 'Macs just work' saying

They do unless you fiddle with em!!

 

[J1234]

Note he was trying to put Winblows on it.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Were you using the latest Boot Camp? Apple just released a new version

 

[Doug]

Dan, the update was for the inside Windows component, it didn't update the Assistant.

 

[RoleyBirkin]

Were you using the latest Boot Camp? Apple just released a new version

How do you get this windows update? What does it add?

 

[Doug]

Run the Apple Software Update inside Windows. It's just some updated drivers and prep for XP SP3/Vista SP1.

 

[Adrianr]

Note he was trying to put Winblows on it.

Sounds like he didn't even get to that part

 

[1337z0r]

Sounds like he didn't even get to that part

Lol, well I have got Vista 64bit on here now. And supirsingly it is very fast and stable considering its vista.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Lol, well I have got Vista 64bit on here now. And supirsingly it is very fast and stable considering its vista.

Well, a Mac was considered as the fastest Windows machine by PC Magazine.

 

[RoleyBirkin]

Just going off on a slight tangent....

I noticed there was a recent Bootcamp upgrade (219mb).

Does this require complete re-installation, wiping the old BC, or does it update leaving all your windows stuff intact?

 

[Will_3rd]

afaik you have to install it from inside Windows when your in Bootcamp should not change anything

all the latest updates are .exe files by the looks of it

 

[titchard]

I am going to bump this thread as I had a very similar problem and now my main startup disk has lost 80GB of space, just *poof* gone.

When I run the disk utility it says the disk has an error, but cannot fix the error, what do I do with this? Is it is a reinstall job?

Rich