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Well here is what happened... I restored my drive from a 160 gig external to an 88 gig partition and now the "Available" space is incorrect. The restore disk that came with my macbook will not allow for me to restore from an external drive, there is a glitch in disk utility. Because of this I made two partitions, 1 to install OS X, and 1 to restore to.... following me so far?

After installing OS X on one partition I used it to restore the image to the other partition. If it would have worked the way I had expected it I would just wipe the 1st partition and all would be well. It didnt work out that way.


I have 2 partitions...

60.41 is the 1st
88.20 is the partition I restored
(160 gig hard drive, 149 gigs formatted)

Both of them are bootable. Is there a utility I can run from the 1st partition to fix the restore? So far I have tried to verify both partitions and obviously the restore partition fails. Am I SOL or can this be repaired? (also thanks to proton in the IRC for helping me get this far)

[Randman]

Another reason why partitions on OSX aren't good. If you have something like DiskWarrior, you can try to do it but may just want to bite the bullet and do a complete clean install. As far as backups, get a cheap external drive and you can always clone your HD and boot from it/copy from it, if you ever need.

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I did clone my hard drive with carbon copy cloner. Then I used disk utility to restore that clone and this is what happened. I cant do it from my restore disk since disk utility is screwed up. This really sucks, I am going to have to reinstall..

[Big Mac]

Have you tried repairing the drive with Disk Utility?

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Originally Posted by Big Mac 

Have you tried repairing the drive with Disk Utility?

Many times, from the dvd, from the other partition, ect ect. Im about to give up.