Creating drive partitions on your Mac whether you are engaging in word files recovery or office auto recovery for restoration purposes can help you start over again with your Mac. The good news is that creating such partitions is fairly simple and straightforward to do when you have the right programs.

All you will need is your Mac that features the OS X 10.11 El Capitan or later system, at least one storage device to partition, and a few minutes to get through the process.

Steps

To partition an external drive, it will need to be connected to your Mac. So, once it is connected just do the following;

• Launch Disk Utility

The left pane will contain the drives and volumes associated with the hierarchical point of view. Plus, it provides the ability to device the current storage space into different types.

• Select the Storage Device

You can now partition the drive and not any of the associated volumes. The drives will usually have names associated with the manufacturer. In addition, it’s possible for the drive and volume to have the same name, so be careful before your selection. The selected drive will appear on the right hand pane and offer some details such as the location, connection, and partition map. You’ll also see how the drive is currently divided, although it may appear as one single drive.

• Click Partition in Disk Utility Toolbar

You’ll see a drop-down sheet that shows a pie chart of the drive, the partition name, size, and type of format. A single drive may have no partitions present and appear as one volume.

Adding a Volume

To add a volume, simply click the “plus” or “+” button found below the pie chart. Each time you click the button, you are adding another volume. You can then adjust their size, format type, and provide names. To make things as easy as possible, start with the first volume and work from there. Once you are in the Partition field name the volume.

From there, you will use the dropdown Format menu so that you can format the volume. Your Choices are as follows;

• OS X Extended (Journaled): The most common type
• OS X Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled) or (Journaled, Encrypted) or Case-Sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted)
• MS-DOS (FAT)
• ExFat

Size of Volume

Simply go into the text box and enter the volume size or you can actually grab the pie slice anchor and drag it to where you want it to be. You can do this with all the pie slices so you can set them the way you want. If you accidentally create a new volume, you can always use the “minus” or “-“ and remove it.

Once everything is set, you will simply need to verify the new partitions and click the Done button. Now you have a brand new set of partitions which can be most helpful in reformatting your Mac and helping it to run more efficiently. In addition, this can help with any office auto recovery or word files recovery when you use the right program such as uFlysoft. By having the right tools in place, you can make changes to your Mac in just minutes.

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