Format my partition without data loss

Can you create new partitions once it has been formatted and the operating system loaded?
Lastly, I looked for the solutions from internet, I found MiniAide Magic Partition can help me. It can create new partitions and format partitions without data loss. It totally helped me.
MIniaide Magic Partition Tool
Share it here and hope it can also help you manage your partitions/disks.

Windows has a capability to paritions without the loss of data. Refer the following weblinks:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2672-partition-volume-shrink.html
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
I am an HP employee.
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Vidya
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Friends,
I already had an iPad(1) and its full contents (not only the purchased items, applications from Apple, but my all own pics, videos, songs etc.) is normally syncronized with an authorized PC (Windows) computer.
Now, I've bought a new MacBook Air computer, and want to sell my PC. But I don't know how to transfer (or syncronize) all of the contents from my previous iTunes on PC to the new one on the Mac.
When I connected my iPad to my new MacBook Air, I promted, if I want to change authorization of my iPad to the MacBook.
But also got a warning, that the new iTunes will delete from my iPad all my previously syncronized items, pics, videos and music, with the previously authorized iTunes on the previous computer, expect the saved pics from the net.
What can I do just like that, simply to keep all my previous contents on my iPad, but have a new authorisation and a right syncronization, without data loss with the new iTunes on my new Mac?
Thanks a lot for your answer.
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Here are some instructions that I have posted several times that may be helpful to you as they have been to others. You can simply ignore anything that does not apply or that you have already done.
As Alan stated above - transferring the iTunes library is the best first step. If you can transfer the iTunes library to the Mac, most of this will be unecessary for you to do.
Very Important ....
1. Authorize the computer.
2. Turn off auto sync in iTunes
3. Transfer purchases
The text in italics is from the other thread - non italics are my words.
The following was copied from this thread. This is essentially what you want to accomplish.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11527071#11527071
1) Without connecting your iPad to your new computer, start iTunes. Click on iTunes. Click on Preferences. Click on Devices. Check the box next to "Prevent your iPod etc. from automatically syncing." Click OK.
2) Now connect your iPad to your computer and start iTunes.
3) When iTunes starts, right click on your iPad under Devices in the left column. Select Transfer purchases etc.
4) After it finishes transferring all your apps to your computer, right click on your iPad and select Backup your iPad.
5) After it finishes backing up your iPad, right click on your iPad and select Restore etc.
6) After it finishes restoring, left click on your iPad , then click on the Apps tab on top, and check the box next to Sync Apps, then click on Apply below.
If everything on your iPad looks good after the sync, go back and click on iTunes / Preferences / Devices and UN-check the box next to Prevent your iPod etc. The only other thing you may want to check is if your contacts, bookmarks, etc. are syncing correctly now. If not, go to the Info tab after connecting and make sure you indicate which features you want to sync with what sources.
Read this thread and the support links as well. There are apps that you can purchase that will allow you to transfer photos from the iPad to your computer. Look at Photo Transfer App in the App store and you can search for others as well.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/13016026#13016026
This support site will help you with transferring iTunes music to your new computer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
One final note - you may want to leave auto sync turned off - but that is totally up to you. I never did use auto sync.

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App won't update or load. How to fix without data loss?

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Marc Wilson wrote:
Do you REALLY think people want to listen to idiots whine about the disconnected data that's splattered around on the phone if your model was adopted? There are already enough cluebies who can't be bothered to understand "Other".
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(2.) If you know anything about data, it does not "splatter".
(3.) It's not "my model," it's the Macintosh way.
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Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk Witout Data Loss

I think I goofed somewhere and am in need of some advice.
This Windows 8.1 home server had two identical 160GB drives that at one point were mirrored. One of the drives failed but so I added a larger replacement hard drive (Disk 0 = 160GB, Disk 1 = 250GB) and was able to recover. However now, not only
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See:
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Thanks for the reply.
I've seen that post, among others, and they all require buying an application. None of the product pages, like the one you linked indicate that a purchase is required. It wasn't until I downloaded the aplications, (and I've tried several) that
I discovered a purchase was required. Really disappointed they weren't upfront about that on the guides.
So maybe a different approach can be taken:
Disk 1 just contains the System Recovery partition - the rest of the disk is blank (not partitioned)
Create a new partition
Copy the OS data from Disk 2 to Disk 1
Update the System Recovery and/or the Boot Configuration Data file to point to the OS that's now on Disk 1
Once updated, reboot
The system should boot properly from Disk 1 and the OS should also be running from Disk 1
Convert Disk 2 to a basic disk
Once Disk 2 has been converted back to a basic disk, can I just do the opposite?
Create 2 partitions on Disk 2: one for System recovery and another for OS
Copy the System Recovery partition (partition on Disk 1) to partition 1 of Disk 2
Copy the OS partition (partition 2 on Disk 1) to partition 2 of Disk 2
Update the System Recovery and/or the Boot Configuration Data file to point to the OS that's now on Disk 2
Once updated, reboot, the system should boot properly from Disk 2 and the OS should also be running from Disk 2
Convert Disk 1 to a basic disk
This is bonkers, believe me, but I feel silly shelling out $40-$50 for a single feature of an application. If I were going to use it regularly, or even periodically, I would do it.
I'm not very comfortable with bcdedit and bootrec so I need a little help with steps 4 in both sections.

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Anyone know how to do this? I've opened up Disk Utility and clicked on the Partition tab and have tried to use the re-size corner to change the size of the current partition, but it is greyed out and I can't sem to get it to work.
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John C Lin wrote:
I'm using OSX Lion and have an external HD, which is about 40% full. I'd like to add a partition without reformatting it or deleting data if that's possible.
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Thanks for all the comments recieved. V.K. made me re-evaluate what I had proved or not. I was fairly certain (not 100%) that the drive mech was OK, because the psu had failed, but should have proved drive mech was actually OK. So I removed the mech (as USB abd firewire can't do SMART etc.) and hooked up to an old G4 Powermac. I then found that the SMART verified, but had forgotten the 128GB limitation on older macs. So removed and got a PC to hook it up and run latest IBM_Hitachi drive fitness and other diags. (its a Deskstar HD and I have had almost zero issue with these drives over the years.) It checks out fine, so I was correct in my initial thoughts, only the PSU was faulty.
So back to my initial suspicions that Snow Leopard or disk utility has screwed things up, maybe a bug, maybe not. And I did run verify first and it said it was OK, only when I re-ran the repair did it then do a "partition update" (or whatever it said - should have done a screen capture - searched apple but can't find listing of all mesgs avail. must be in developers site I expect). So I am back at looking at how to recover, if at all possible, but as Alsoft have said this is not something Diskwarrior can do directly. Files must still be there just partiton map is now in a ... needs to be initialised mode. Not that I will do that.
So I guess summary is possible bug/funny in 10.6 and/or disk utility.
sounds like I will be contacting Alsoft now
may read up on partition map damage first, so I get a better picture of whats involved.
Cheers and thanks for all the help/ideas.
BTW - been using macs_pcs for decades now and helping friends & family fix things as and when. This is first time needed to post on forum as always found answers to questions I had previously. Must remember the old adage of not jumping onto new technology until it has bedded down I bet if I had hooked up to the old G4 Powermac I wouldn't be in this position. Thanks again.

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Hi everyone,
I guess the question pretty much speaks for itself. My Imac is running very slow these past few months and I would like to reinstall the whole OS.
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Formatting a drive is a destructive process, so you cannot format a drive without losing everything on the drive. But it is possible to reinstall OS X without reformatting the drive.
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You can resize partitions without losing data but you won't be able to boot into Windows after that. That was a bad experience I had. My first bad experience was to repartition a dual-partition (Tiger+Windows) drive, ignoring the warning. Guess what? Lost everything and had to reinstall both OS.
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