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        <title><![CDATA[Managing partitions on Mac drive]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Having separate volume for different kinds of data is always appreciated. Its a nice effort towards optimizing Mac drive since it reduces the access time data and keeps the data synced. Although, managing volume with disk utility (an inbuilt application of OS X) is easy but users need some advanced features which are available in third party applications like:1. Stellar partition manager2. iPartition]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[stuartbell]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:50:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hard Disk Toolkit was great, back in the day...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[William Jones remarks are well made with regards FWB, hidden partitions and indeed bootcamp.I would merely in response say:-1.  My comments were intended to promote thought.2.  With regards hidden partitions he is spot on. The intent of my remarks was to highlight a warning for when reformatting and repartioning - watch out - I learnt this advice the easy way from a collegue who learnt it the hard way - he nearly lost his job as a result.3.  Whilst a partition is required for Boot Camp, since I find VMFusionware better for my clients, it never arises as an issue.4.  As field engineers, our job is about system reliability. Partitioning is just one more thing to go wrong. When it does go wrong it makes it harder to recover the data. On that basis I tried to avoid it like the plague.All of the above are value judgements based upon my own experience. It doesn't mean I am right or William is right but merely that we have come to different conclusions based upon our experiences.The key element that these are serious issues that need to be considered by all of us when confronting the issue to partitions or not partition and reformatting.We should always remember in IT we have two common enemies - one is called the client and the other is senior management.On which note in good conscience I am required to add that it is clear that William's Employer has chosen extremely wisely in him as IT Manager - he is clearly switched on and knows his trade very well.As I said, I merely come to a different value judgment.RespectfullyWilliam Jacomb]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:48:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hidden dangers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hmm.. let's hope those hidden partitions have acquired immunity from crashes on the rest of the drive - as, if their friendly administrators don't spot those partitions, then those friendly administrators won't be backing it up for them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MWRMWR]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:30:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hard Disk Toolkit was great, back in the day...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...but I'm surprised that you still find use for it. FWB was never so great about updating their products to support Mac OS X. As far as I know, there was never a version HDToolkit that could be run natively on OS X, and now the product has been abandoned. For its time though, FWB's product was cutting edge. But without SATA support, and no OS X or Intel compatibility, it's pretty useless except on legacy machines.You absolutely right about custom partitioning making things more complex, but sometimes advanced users need more than the default configuration or the basic tools. Wanna use Boot Camp on a new Mac to boot Windows? Sorry, but you're going to be re-partitioning.Funny story about your research users exploiting hidden partitions! Usually that type of thing is used for less lofty, and more 'not-safe-for-work' purposes. In my opinion, your users are at fault for using custom configurations that they didn't disclose to their support team. Sure, every tech should measure twice before cutting, but would you expect your doctor to come up with the right diagnosis if you lied to him about your symptoms?Thanks for your thoughts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[williamjones]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:47:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Advanced partition management on your Apple computer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been supporting Macs and PCS for about 20 years, I have found in my own experience that the best partition software is FWB Hard Disk  Toolkit.It also provides outstanding utilities for fully testing the drive both mechanicially and data encoding wise.Also these days with OS X, in my mind there are very few technical reasons why I would want to partition a hard drive because it adds an extra layer of complexity - just one more thing to go wrong.However, watch out for Medical Researchers, I have worked at one AIDS research facility where the researchers all want to scoop the others so they have hidden partitions where they hide their real data. One cannot blame them. But what it does mean is in such a situation:-1.  Use Apple System Profiler to id the real capacity of the drive before you reformat. - If You don;t you may wipe out the Hidden Partition and end up in a real RDDD (Real Deep DO DO) situation.Finally whilst the remarks in the Article are well made you should always consider Apple Made the OS so they know it best - in other words using the current OSX formatter is probably the best choice (in previsous versions when it was HD SETUP) it was pretty bad.Therefore, you best choice might be well to stick to it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wjacomb]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:44:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ask and ye shall receive...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In response to one of my previous posts, TR user  robertmro pointed out that we have Mac users who read the blogs, too. He's absolutely right, and as a Mac owner and an enterprise support tech who works in a mixed environment, I should be pulling my weight more on that front. I'll be trying to post items of interest to Apple users more often. So, proof in the pudding that we listen to your comments! Chime in if you'd like to see us cover something in particular.In this most recent post, I cover my favorite partition editor for Apple machines:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=229Do you have a better program than iPartition that you use with your Macs?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[williamjones]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:22:06 -0700</pubDate>
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