Having extra space in your Mac is like a boon. You can easily store your downloads and other files without worrying about space. If you ever wanted to create extra space, then do checkout the best Partition manager software for Mac mentioned below. These Partition managers for Mac allow you to cleverly edit, delete or merge extra spaces. You can control the division and have planned partitions in your Mac to give you an orderly hard disk.
#1. Disk Utility
Disk Utility is the perfect choice for creating a partition of your Mac’s hard drive. It is a built-in app on all Macs and straightforward to use. When you make a partition, you will be presented with easy to understand pie chart of your hard disk space. Visually it shows a friendly graphical interface that even non-techies can understand.
This partition manager has useful features like the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without first erasing the hard drive. The app also has options like First Aid, Erase, Restore and Unmount.
Using this, I have created partitions on my MacBook very quickly and effortlessly. You can see the easy steps along with screenshots here.
Price: Free (In-built)
#2. Stellar Mac Partition Manager
Stellar Partition Manager is safe and reliable software, allowing you to create partitions in your Mac. The formatting option allows you to either join two spaces or edit earlier space for creating a new one.
Signed up got GFN months ago to try it on my 2017 15in MacBook Pro - since then I resorted to gaming in a Bootcamp Windows 10 Partition on the macbook, and even purchased an exxternal 144hz Freesync monitor to use as the display when gaming. Bootcamp is the best solution for running power demanding games even on modest hardware. I remember i friend running Need for Speed at full setting on a 2013 MacBook Pro with only a dual-core i5and it was smooth and nice to play (the laptop sound. How to Remove the Boot Camp Partition. Back up all the data that you need from the partition. Start the Mac in macOS. Quit all open apps and log out of any other users that are currently logged in. Open up Launchpad, click Utilities, and then Boot Camp Assistant. Click the “Continue” button.
With this software, you can create, delete, resize and hide partitions. You need to run the software and then you can do the above commands. The best feature is that you can hide the partitions you do not wish anyone else to see.
Price: $39
Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7 & 10.6
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#3. iPartition for Mac
iPartition for Mac allows you to make your partitions, intelligently. The software provides a graphical format to highlight, edit and delete your partitions. You simply have to use the resize tool for changes. iPartition software’s flexibility allows the users to queue their tasks, edit flags in the partition table, edit the type of partition and resize them, directly.
Price: Free
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 to macOS 10.13
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#4. Partition Magic Mac
Partition Magic Mac has all latest techniques that keep your drive safe and secure. The software allows you to make, resize or mix the existing partitions. You can create distinct storage space, arrange data, allows multitasking of operating system, modify partitions, preview, delete or opt for automatic partition option.
The software is reliable enough that if you have a power cut in the middle of your partitioning, it will save your work and the partitions will be as you set them before the power cut. It has a really user-friendly UI.
Price: Free (Trial)
Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7 & 10.6
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#5. Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Paragon presents an advanced partitioning manager for your Mac. This software is equipped with a new backup and recovery feature to secure your valuable data. The boot camp management feature redistributes free space between macOS and Windows OS volumes.
This software supports the last five operating systems viz. Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave. When you plan to sell out your old Mac, you can make a clone of your old disk.
Price: Free (10 day Trial) $39.95
Operating System: macOS 10.14 Mojave
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That’s all folks!
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Summing up…
Creation of disk partition on Mac allows you to use a separate operating system; thus, you get the best of both world. Apple’s built-in disk utility feature enables a common user to break the hard drive into two or more pieces.
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I'm taking a bit of a break from the Microsoft posts. Well, I'm sort of taking a break. In this post I want to demonstrate the best way to use Bootcamp on a MacBook Pro Retina to run Windows and OS X side-by-side.
First off, a gripe. Apple, why wouldn't you provide a simple process or a simple step-by-step guide for getting Windows on your hardware using Bootcamp?
SmarterTools is a Windows development company that runs primarily MacBook computers because the hardware is incredibly solid. We build every computer with a Bootcamp partition because our developers spend most of their time in Windows. However, it shouldn't be this difficult to get Windows running! On the other side of the office, the Customer Service team works primarily in OSX and this gives us a good balance of testing across all platforms. As I've mentioned in previous posts, we also have a few employees using Microsoft Surface devices.
Knowing all of this, and having the experience with the process, I thought it would be very helpful for people to understand how to get Windows on a MacBook Pro. A majority of our MacBooks are late 2013 models and we run Windows 8.1 Pro. So, here is our configuration and the steps we use to get this all set up. It may also apply to other MacBook models, Windows versions, etc.
First off, what you'll need…
- A DVD player (use a USB version if your MBP doesn't have a physical drive) and DVD with Windows on it. Install off a USB drive doesn't seem to work. Believe me, we've tried.
- A 4GB USB stick for the Bootcamp drivers.
- On the Mac, start Bootcamp assistant. The easiest way to do this is use Spotlight (command + space and type 'bootcamp'…it should highlight). Choose whether you need to make your USB drivers, etc. This is where you'll use the USB drive if you actually need to create/get drivers. If you're lucky and have the drivers already, you can skip this step.
- Once the drivers are ready, choose your partition size and then your computer is going to reboot when done.
- Hold down the 'option' key on boot up.
- Choose EFI Windows or it may just say EFI with a disk and start the Windows setup process.
- When you get to the disk and drive options, delete the partition that was created for Bootcamp. It should be the last one the list.
- After deleting the Bootcamp partition, hit 'shift + f10' and type in the following information:
diskpart
Select disk 0
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick - Hit 'alt + tab' after this is completed and then hit the 'X' on the list of disks
- You now need to re-start setup.
- When your computer reboots, hold down the 'option' key again and choose the EFI for Windows again. (It may just say EFI.)
- Now you can choose the last partition / drive in the list and Windows will install.
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After Windows finishes installing, you'll want to go through and do ALL of the Windows updates. Gotta love Windows…Imac Pro Bootcamp Gaming
Once you're ready to go, all will work as normal: You'll have 2 separate partitions on your disk, one for OS X and one that allows you to enjoy Windows on your Mac!