Partially Partitioned Hard Drive Cause Data Loss In Mac Os X
On Intel-based Mac computers, you can also install Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system
, by making it dual-boot. This is possible through Boot Camp utility, which is included in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard. It guides you through safe re-partitioning of your Mac hard drive and to install Microsoft Windows drivers. However, sometimes you may come across some strange errors while using this tool and may face data loss situations. To retrieve lost data in such circumstances, you are required to opt for Mac Data Recovery solutions to extract lost data.
In a practical scenario, when you try to repartition your hard drive using Boot Camp application, you may encounter below error message:
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 X Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again
Additionally, when you look into the /var/logs/system.log file for more detail, the error message sounds like the below one:
Sep 1 14:55:30 chmac kernel[0]: hfs_truncatefs: couldn't reclaim space on Macintosh HD
When this error message occurs, repartitioning process gets halted. This behavior of Boot Camp utility renders all your hard drive partitions inaccessible and lead to data loss situations. In order to extract lost data in such cases, you need to perform
Data Recovery Mac by sorting it out.
Cause
You may come across this problem, due to any of the below reasons:
Parallels VM marked unmovable
Insufficient Disk Space
Sharing Options turned on
Operating system installation faults
External drives connected
Resolution
You can try out following things to fix this problem:
Reinstall operating system
Removing parallels VM files
Removing unwanted, useless or large files from hard drive
Disconnecting external hard drive
Turning off sharing options
If none of the above things work,
Mac Recovery Software come for your rescue. These are powerful and advanced applications, which use commanding scanning methods for absolute recovery of all your lost data. With simple and interactive graphical user interface, they allow you to have Mac Data Recovery on your own. The applications preserve integrity of your data as they have read-only and non-destructive conduct.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most comprehensive application for absolute recovery. It recovers data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes. The software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.
by: Allen Sood
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