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Open Disk Utility (type it in spotlight, or find it under applications/utilities Select your drive from the left hand column. On the right hand part, select the "Partition" tab. Options to partition are found there. Usually you cannot partition a boot drive, and beware that you may lose all data when partitioning. There may be third party software available that can partition boot drives and also keep your data semi-safe (there is always the risk of data loss, backup first).
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Can you format a mac hard drive and make it a windows machine only?
Providing the Mac is a recent model with an Intel processor you could make a Mac into a Windows only machine or you could partition the hard drive and have both Mac OS X and Windows as options.
How do you recover lost mac partition with minitool mac data recovery software?
You can try MiniTool Mac Data Recovery ,This free Mac data recovery software boasts of convincing free data recovery modules to recover accidentally-deleted data and data from formatted partition, deleted partition and damaged partition. In addition, hard disk, external disk, flash drive, memory card, memory stick and iPod are all supported by this Mac data recovery software.
How do you get a hard drive that works on version 10.6 mac on 10.7 mac?
Most brands of hard drive will work with a Mac. If you want to run both Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 you will need to partition the drive and install a separate operating system into each partition.
How can you access your mac hard drive through your bootcamp partition?
Illegal.
How do you recover Mac hard drive data from damaged partition with MiniTool Mac data recovery?
As an easy-to-use Mac data recovery software, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery 2.3 was specially developed for Mac OS data recovery. This free Mac data recovery software boasts of convincing free data recovery modules to recover accidentally-deleted data and data from formatted partition, deleted partition and damaged partition. In addition, hard disk, external disk, flash drive, memory card, memory stick and iPod are all supported by this Mac data recovery software. Specific to the web have steps can also contact technical support.
What is boot camp on iMac?
Boot Camp allows you to install Windows on your Mac and dual boot. Your Mac will look just like a Windows PC when you boot into the Windows partition. You will also have to install Windows Security on that partition to be safe.
How do you make a Non-DOS partition using MS-DOS?
MS DOS partition is always a DOS partition.. You can not make a Non-DOS partition using DOS..
If I download Windows 10 on my mac will all of my files get deleted?
You cannot just download and install Windows on your Mac. To install Windows on your mac you will have to partition your hard drive and then install Windows on that new partition. This will have no effect on your existing OSx. To do this you can use Boot Camp already installed on your Mac or Parallels which you must purchase.
How can a Mac remove a partition on external hard drive?
Built into Mac OS X is an application called Disk Utility, which can format and partition any internal or external volume. It's located in /Applications/Utilities/. Additionally, there are some third-party utilities that can work with partitions on-the-fly: iPartition, DiskWorks, and VolumeWorks all claim to do this.
What is the difference between Hard partition and Soft partition in Mac OS X?
A hard partition restructures the disc and each partition is recognised as a separate disc. A soft partition allows the operating system to recognise the partitions as separate discs but without changing the structure of the drive. Remember to always backup the contents of a disc before partitioning - even with a soft partition.
What is the partition that contains the files that load the initial components of the operating system?
This is dependent on your OS. Windows: 'C:\, C:\system' *nix:; /, /bin, /root, or /boot Mac: ?dont know? Usually this will be in the first physical partition(boot partition).
If you install Windows 7 on mac with bootcamp can you transfer your mac files to windows if so how?
Yes you can. I am currently using a 2010 iMac, and on my bootcamp partition I have windows 7. When you are logged in the mac partition you can see the bootcamp partition and copy and paste files. I m not sure if you need to install NTFS-3G on mac. Anyway it's free and I suggest you to install it. From windows 7 you should see your machintosh hard drive ( mine is called machintosh) from there you browse usr/username/ ... there you'll find all your folders ) ;)
