Partially Partitioned Hard Drive Cause Data Loss in Mac OS X

On Intel-based Mac computers, you can also installand lead to data loss situations. In order to extract
Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system, bylost data in such cases, you need to perform Data
making it dual-boot. This is possible through BootRecovery Mac by sorting it out.
Camp utility, which is included in Mac OS X 10.6 SnowCause
Leopard and 10.5 Leopard. It guides you through safeYou may come across this problem, due to any of
re-partitioning of your Mac hard drive and to installthe below reasons:
Microsoft Windows drivers. However, sometimes youParallels VM marked unmovable
may come across some strange errors while usingInsufficient Disk Space
this tool and may face data loss situations. ToSharing Options turned on
retrieve lost data in such circumstances, you areOperating system installation faults
required to opt for Mac Data Recovery solutions toExternal drives connected
extract lost data.Resolution
In a practical scenario, when you try to repartitionYou can try out following things to fix this problem:
your hard drive using Boot Camp application, youReinstall operating system
may encounter below error message:Removing parallels VM files
“The disk cannot be partitioned because someRemoving unwanted, useless or large files from hard
files cannot be moved.drive
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as aDisconnecting external hard drive
single Mac OS X Extended (journaled) volume.Turning off sharing options
Restore your information to the disk and try usingIf none of the above things work, Mac Recovery
Boot Camp Assistant again”Software come for your rescue. These are powerful
Additionally, when you look into the /var/logsand advanced applications, which use commanding
system.log file for more detail, the error messagescanning methods for absolute recovery of all your
sounds like the below one:lost data. With simple and interactive graphical user
“Sep 1 14:55:30 chmac kernel[0]: hfs_truncatefs:interface, they allow you to have Mac Data
couldn't reclaim space on Macintosh HD”Recovery on your own. The applications preserve
When this error message occurs, repartitioningintegrity of your data as they have read-only and
process gets halted. This behavior of Boot Campnon-destructive conduct.
utility renders all your hard drive partitions inaccessible