| In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the Disk Utility tool is able to | | | | It is quite possible to lose access of your business |
| resize your hard drive partitions or repartition a hard | | | | critical data in case of disk repartitioning process failure. |
| drive without erasing stored data. Mac released a new | | | | So before performing the disk partitioning operation on |
| version of Mac OS X operating system, namely Mac | | | | your Mac OS X hard drive, you should make sure that |
| OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. You can upgrade to it from | | | | your backup is valid and updated. If you repartition the |
| your Leopard system. However, some beta software | | | | hard drive without an absolute backup, it can be very |
| does not work in Snow Leopard. Thus, disk | | | | risky. |
| repartitioning may be required to create a new partition | | | | How to Repartition a Mac Hard Drive? |
| and install Snow Leopard on it. For perfect functioning | | | | To repartition a hard drive using Disk Utilities, follow the |
| of your system after disk repartitioning, the process of | | | | underwritten steps: |
| disk repartitioning should complete successfully. In case, | | | | Launch Disk Utility. |
| the process is terminated due to any reason, like low | | | | Select the hard drive to repartition, in the list it shows. |
| disk space and system crash, you may not be able to | | | | Drag corner of partition box for resizing it. |
| access existing partitions and data. This behavior leads | | | | Click '+' button to add new volume. |
| to significant data loss and calls for Mac data | | | | It prompts for confirmation. Confirm it. |
| recovery. | | | | This way, you can easily repartition of your Mac hard |
| Backup Your Data Before You Proceed for Disk | | | | drive. But, what if you do not have a backup and the |
| Repartitioning | | | | process fails? It causes serious data loss and Mac |
| You are highly recommended that you should not | | | | recovery becomes need of hour. |
| mess up with actual partitioning structure on your Mac | | | | Recovery is possible using powerful and advanced |
| OS X hard drive without creating a valid backup of | | | | third-party applications, known as Mac Disk recovery |
| your valuable data first. The partitioning process may | | | | software . They are powerful enough to perfectly and |
| go wrong in some situations and problems may take | | | | safely recovery all lost data from Mac OS X hard |
| place, calling for data recovery Mac to be fixed. | | | | drive. |