There may come a time in every Mac user’s life when he/she needs to install second version of Macintosh on same machine or need to separate operating system files from user documents. In case you did default Mac OS X installation or have pre-formatted Mac, you might have only one volume that stores all the data. In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later versions, it is possible without losing your data in nondestructive way. Here you can save yourself from need of Mac Data Recovery solutions, if everything goes fine.
Backup your data first
Before trying to resize the Mac OS X volumes, you need to create complete backup of all your data to be on safe side if anything goes wrong. You can use either tar or Time Machine utility to create backup. As you open applications and programs may be writing data to hard drive while creating backup, you need to reboot the system in Single User Mode to ensure perfect backup.
Resize hard drive
After creating backup, the disk resizing process is completely safe and you can proceed for it. After booting the system in single user mode, collect hard drive information using ‘diskutil’ command. It would provide you complete information of all hard drive volumes of Mac.
Now identify the volume that you need to resize. You can see the properties of Mac OS X volume under size and name column. The entries, which use GUID_partition_scheme, could be ignored as they are not entries of user volumes.
Consider the new volume layout at this point. You can split your volumes in two or more parts as you like. Once you define the partition scheme and structure and proceed for resizing, you should make sure that the process is not interrupted. If it gets interrupted, serious situations of data loss may occur and you need Data Recovery Mac to extract lost data. Data loss problems may also occur if your drive is larger than 75 GB.
In all such cases, Mac Recovery Software help you to retrieve lost data. The applications perform in-depth scan of whole hard drive and retrieve all of the lost, missing and inaccessible data from it. The Mac Data Recovery tools safe and easy to use due to read-only conduct and graphical user interface.
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