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Common Problems |
The most common problems encountered when using iPartition are:
The problem is that you are trying to work with the disk from which the system booted (or a write-protected disk). It is not possible under Mac OS X to gain direct access to the disk from which the system booted, even if the operations you have asked to perform do not require access to the boot partition itself.
The solution is to boot your machine from a different disk, or (for write protected disks) disable the write protection so that iPartition can gain access to the disk.
For Windows to see the partition the disk must either use the MBR partition scheme, or use the GUID partition scheme and have the “Visible in Windows” partition property checked. In the latter case, iPartition can only make up to three partitions on the disk visible.
The problem is that you haven’t formatted the partition. Formatting and creating partitions are separate operations in iPartition; to format a partition, you must either click the “Format” checkbox when creating the partition, or choose “Format” from the Partition menu.
Note that iPartition can only format HFS, HFS+ (Mac OS Standard and Extended), with or without case sensitivity and/or journalling and FAT16/32 partitions. If you wish to format a different type of partition, you must use tools appropriate to that partition type.
We don’t recommend Disk Doctor, either as a disk repair utility or for checking disks. Apple Disk Utility is much better and if that doesn’t work, we suggest Alsoft DiskWarrior as a last resort. (The reason we say to use DiskWarrior as a last resort is that Apple may update their volume format, at which point they will release updated versions of their disk utilities, whereas third-party utilities must normally catch-up after the event.)
A lot of the things Disk Doctor reports as “major errors” are in fact not incorrect at all, and worse still, Disk Doctor has an unpleasant habit of making changes that cause the disk to become inconsistent, then reporting all the inconsistencies that it created as further “major errors”.
We have done our best to eliminate problem reports from Disk Doctor, but we advise customers to use other products to check or repair their disks wherever possible. If you do see a problem reported by Disk Doctor, by all means let us know, but be aware that the program is often incorrect.