How and why should I Repartition Mac Boot Drive

Partitioning means dividing hard drive into logical separations in order to keep different category wise data. Partitioning is necessary in hard drive no matter what operating system you have. Here I will explain you Repartitioning Mac Boot drive. Repartitioning means partitioning your existing partitions again. Boot drive is that drive which has Mac operating system in it. By default all the applications of installed third party tools are also stored in Boot drive.

 

Need of Repartitioning:

Sometimes during initializing your new Mac drive, often you do not have the exact idea about how many partitions you actually require. And many times partitions we have are not enough to keep our changing diversity in data as time passes.

These situations usually leads to repartitioning of your existing partitions to create more number of volumes in your disk.

When you want multi boot system or we can say you need to install windows on your Mac it also require repartitioning of Mac drive. So implementation of windows on Mac world is posssible by repartitioning of drive(By creating partition on Boot camp you can install windows or any drivers).

Disk Utility is an inbuilt utility of Mac which is used to partition and repartition your existing Mac Drive. I will explain step by step process of partitioning in my next blog on Disk utility.

Risk in Repartitioning Boot Drive:

Suppose during partitioning of drive if your system is turned off due to some reason, this may cause a severe loss of data or you can lose your precious files and volumes.

Repartitioning of boot drive often cause severe data losses if precautions are not taken.

Precautions should be taken before Repartitioning Boot Drive:

However, as we know repartitioning involves disk initialization operation, so it is always suggested and if one who really cares his data must take complete backup of the original partition before performing or going through any partitioning or repartitioning operations.

There are plenty if software available in market for partitioning Mac drive. I personally recommend to get Stellar partition manager as I found many features in it and high performance.

How to Repartition our Boot Drive using third party software:

Being the prime storage location of your Mac machine, it is the hard disk that stores all important data in it. If we give attention to the internals of the hard drive, you will notice that there are various electro-mechanical components in it, including the Read/Write Head, platter etc.

Apart from this, hard drive is responsible for the conversion and storage of your data (documents, videos, photos, and other files) in digital format. On the magnetic platter of your Mac drive, there are tracks and sectors to store data systematically(in order). However, 'Bits'-­- it is the tiniest magnetized region of sector, which stores the actual data in digital form. 
 
The users new to Mac do not find Disk Utility easy to use. All such users can use Stellar Partition Manager, for enjoying friendlier and interactive graphical user interface(GUI). This Mac partitioning utility provides you options for partition creation, deletion, formatting, and resize your drive/volume. Along with these this reliable software is capable to hide/reveal Mac partitions to protect against unauthorized data access.