40GB missing on Harddrive?

[znoopy]

Hi.


After an unfinished install of BootCamp Windows I seem to be missing 40GB of space on my hard drive, that I can't manage to recover...

Pls see screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/54vj7ofz7r0g9yr/Screenshot 2017-05-26.png?dl=0

I have a 256GB drive but system HD is only 200GB.

Anyone knows how I can reclaim the missing 40GB? Revert through Bootcamp Assistant doesn't work, since it doesn't recognise it.


Thx

 

[AmazingHenry]

Go into Disk Utility, click your main drive, and click "Partition". Is there any "empty space" or "unused space" or whatever in the pie chart?

Feel free to share a screenshot.

 

[Fishrrman]

Chances are, the only way you're getting that space back will be to do this:

1. Use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to create a bootable cloned backup of your internal drive (the Mac partition, that is) on an EXTERNAL drive.

2. BOOT FROM the cloned backup.

3. Use Disk Utility to re-initialize the internal drive to HFS+ with journaling enabled, ONE partition.

4. Use CCC (or SD) to RE-clone the backup BACK TO the internal.

This WILL do the job, and do it right.
Takes a little time, though...

 

[kohlson]

Did you mouse over the line-graph elements? This may be "Purgeable" - try a google to understand more about this. (That is, it may not be "missing"
What does a cmd-i on the disk say?
Try something like Disk Inventory X to see if there is some blob someplace, such as a log file.

 

[znoopy]

Did you mouse over the line-graph elements? This may be "Purgeable" - try a google to understand more about this. (That is, it may not be "missing"
What does a cmd-i on the disk say?
Try something like Disk Inventory X to see if there is some blob someplace, such as a log file.

Thanks all!

I ended up doing a complete reinstall of OS.... :/

 

[KALLT]

It probably would have been fixable using command-line tools. Just for future reference.