Hard Drive problems

So, last night i decided I to make my Vista partition on my MBP bigger. Boot Camp assistant got rid of the partition in like 20 sec. I was surprised at how easy that was.

So, I start the Assistant up again and choose my partition size. It starts and then mid-way through it asks me to restart (by holding down the power button, which is how you force a power down). It reboots and I get in and it says that Mac OSX has unexpectedly closed and does the error report thing.

I check my drive and the space that was going to the partition is gone, or rather 'used up' somehow and there is no partition. I called Apple and their final verdict was to reformat the entire thing. I kinda don't want to do that, even though I probably should, but does anyone know some things I can try before I wipe it? I've tried using TechTool and the Drive Utility (it recognizes that there is an incorrect number of free blocks, but gets an error after verifying it. Maybe because it's my system boot drive).

Any suggestions?

 

Can you format the damaged partition using Disk Utility?

 

I ran into that same problem with my MBP and trying to install Vista via Boot Camp. This was after several installs and wipes of Vista. I figured there had to be some corruption on the drive once I started getting the same symptom you are describing, so I finally just nuked it and havent messed with Boot Camp on the MBP since

 

Hmm. That doesn't sound too promising.

I can't really do anything with it using the Disk Utility. I think I'll try repair it using the OSX installation disk.

 

UPDATE: I ran the repair function using the install disk and it worked!