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apple macbook pro partition problems

Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by masterchef341, Jun 13, 2007.

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ok - a while ago i had crossover, parallels, and vmware, and bootcamp installed attempting to play cs:s within osx.

it was not a good thing. somehow, those programs destroyed not only my windows installation, but then i couldnt boot into osx.

no worries- i have installation disks for osx (and i literally just got this machine) no big deal, no big data loss.

but after i reinstalled osx on my machine, i only have 97 gigs of space available. i have a 160 gig hard drive in there.

obviously- something is not right. the "capacity" for the "Macintosh HD" says 117 GB, with 97.61 available, and 19.39 GB used.

the disk utility shows a 149 GB hard drive!

i dont know enough about osx to fix this yet! help!

edit: Please!

masterchef341, Jun 13, 2007

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What if you format the drive? and re-install osx?

If someone formats the drive, is it still possible to install OSX?

Edit: The used disc space is probably the space you set for bootcamp, even though you reinstalled OSX, you probably didn't format the drive, or perhaps didn't format both 'Partitions'

PR0DiGY, Jun 13, 2007

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