The current versions of Mac OS X operating system lets you install Windows operating system on your Macintosh machine, by making it dual-boot. It is possible through a specially designed tool, called Book Camp. The configuration is pretty easy and safe for the Mac files. After completion of the installation, you can boot your computer either using Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. however, sometimes, the Boot Camp process may fail halfway and make your system unusable. This behavior calls for hard drive formatting, which eventually causes data loss. In such situations, you need to opt for Mac hard drive recovery solutions to get your precious data back.
When the dual-boot confirmation fails, you may not be able to boot the system if you use Mac OS X operating system. At the time of failure, you may encounter error messages similar to the following:
“The Disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a Single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.”
Similarly, if you try to remove the Boot Camp volume, the below error occurs:
“The startup Disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.”
Cause
You may encounter this problem if your Mac OS X hard drive is corrupt or inaccessible by the Boot Camp program. In case you try to remove the Boot Camp partition, the error occurs if Windows partition is set as active.
Resolution
Try using the below mentioned steps to carry out hard drive recovery and resolve this behavior:
· Format the Mac OS X hard drive and install both the operating systems from scratch.
· Reboot your system using Disk Utility and then remove the Windows partition.
· Restore data from the most recent and clean backup.
In case you go for hard drive formatting and do not have a clean backup, Mac data recovery software becomes need of hour.
Mac hard drive recovery programs are incorporated with highly-advanced scanning mechanisms to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and salvage all lost data from it. These programs are capable of handling all data loss situations.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the best data recovery software that ensures perfect recovery of lost Mac data. The software is designed to retrieve data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.
