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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:
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Apple OS X Recovery For Corrupted HFS File System Volumes in Mac
HFS (Hierarchical File System) is a popular and powerful file system, originally developed for hard drives and floppy disks on Mac OS X computer. It is the predecessor of HFS+ (Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended) file system. Though, it is not used as a standard file system for earlier versions of Mac OS X operating systems, but it is still used on hard drives, optical disks, and removable storage media-supported by Mac OS X operating system. In some situations, the HFS file system volume may become inaccessible on Mac OS X operating system-based computers and you come across critical data loss situations. At this point, Apple OS X recovery becomes need of hour to get your valuable data recovered.
HFS file system divides your total volume space into several equal-sized pieces, known as allocation blocks. The file system employs 16-bit fields for identifying particular allocation blocks and thus the number of allocation blocks must be less than 65,536. A non-empty fork should occupy an inherent number of the allocation blocks. As the size of volume and number of allocation blocks increases, amount of the allocated but unused disk space increases.
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