The app also provides sector-level backup, which provides speedy back-up and recovery. Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac allows users to move, resize, undelete partitions (recover deleted volumes) and modify their properties. Mac users have limited options for modifying the partition table after it’s been created, and are unable to resize file systems other than HFS+ or change partition properties. Most OS X-based computers already come with integrated partitioning features, but they’re limited to basic partitioning tasks. Also, Hard Disk Manager does install some “auxiliary components,” which offers the possibility of compatibility issues when the next upgrade of OS X arrives.Īpple may not like you tinkering with the “innards” of Mac OS X, but the company dumbed down its Disk Utility with OS X El Capitan. In other words, it tinkers with things that Apple doesn’t really want you to tinker with. However, Hard Disk Manager and other low level or system applications require root access to have access to hard drives. SIP was introduced for the first time in Mac OS X 10.11 and designed as a foolproof to prohibit user operations in Mac OS X under the root privileges (such operations were allowed in all previous versions of Mac OS X). According to the folks at Paragon, it has to otherwise the disk management operations that require changes on a system disk would be possible from a bootable media only. Okay, back to SIP (System Integrity Protection). I removed the drive, re-inserted it, and everything worked fine. The Bootable Media Builder works reasonably well, though the first time I plugged a flash drive into my iMac to use with the app, it informed me that the drive wasn’t Mac compatible even though I’ve been using it for weeks. Also, the data on the disk you select will be lost. If you don’t have it, the wizard won’t work. The native OS X Recovery HD partition is used as a basis for the prepared media. The Bootable Media Builder creates a bootable flash stick or external disk to boot your Mac for maintenance when OS X fails to start up or SIP (more on that in a moment) restricts writing to disks. My favorite feature of Hard Disk Manager is its ability to create recovery media to get your Mac back on track in case of a disaster. It’s a solid release for a version 1.0 app.
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