Failed Repartitioning Process Causes Data Loss In Mac OS X
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Failed Repartitioning Process Causes Data Loss in Mac OS X

In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the Disk Utility tool is able to resize your hard drive partitions or repartition a hard drive without erasing stored data. Mac released a new version of Mac OS X operating system, namely Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. You can upgrade to it from your Leopard system. However, some beta software does not work in Snow Leopard. Thus, disk repartitioning may be required to create a new partition and install Snow Leopard on it. For perfect functioning of your system after disk repartitioning, the process of disk repartitioning should complete successfully. In case, the process is terminated due to any reason, like low disk space and system crash, you may not be able to access existing partitions and data. This behavior leads to significant data loss and calls for Mac data recovery.

Backup Your Data Before You Proceed for Disk Repartitioning

You are highly recommended that you should not mess up with actual partitioning structure on your Mac OS X hard drive without creating a valid backup of your valuable data first. The partitioning process may go wrong in some situations and problems may take place, calling for data recovery Mac to be fixed.  

It is quite possible to lose access of your business critical data in case of disk repartitioning process failure. So before performing the disk partitioning operation on your Mac OS X hard drive, you should make sure that your backup is valid and updated. If you repartition the hard drive without an absolute backup, it can be very risky.

How to Repartition a Mac Hard Drive?

To repartition a hard drive using Disk Utilities, follow the underwritten steps:

Launch Disk Utility.

Select the hard drive to repartition, in the list it shows.

Drag corner of partition box for resizing it.

Click '+' button to add new volume.

It prompts for confirmation. Confirm it.

This way, you can easily repartition of your Mac hard drive. But, what if you do not have a backup and the process fails? It causes serious data loss and Mac recovery becomes need of hour.

Recovery is possible using powerful and advanced third-party applications, known as Mac Disk recovery software . They are powerful enough to perfectly and safely recovery all lost data from Mac OS X hard drive.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most efficient and useful utility in all data loss situations. The software recovers data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper , and FAT file system volumes. It is designed for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.

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