Your computer hard drive may encounter problems at any point of time, nevertheless of the operating system and hardware resources you are using. Most of the operating system provides inbuilt disk repair tools to overcome such problems.
Mac includes Disk Utility and fsck commands to fix these issues. These tools work in most of the situations of hard drive errors and can easily find the errors and can even fix the minor problems. But sometimes, these tools may report you the following error while performing disk checkup and trying to fix the errors:
“Overlapped extent allocation.”
This error message occurs when these tools can not resolve this problem.
Overlapped Extent Allocation errors means that two Mac files occupy same memory space on hard drive. Although, this situation does not occur so often but it results into the loss of your precious data.
In case of such errors, you should not install any software on your hard drive. In such situations, for successful completion of disk checking process, you need to resolve this problem as quickly as possible.
To resolve this problem, backup as much data as possible and then start you Mac with Installation DVD and perform ‘Erase and Install’ installation. It will possibly resolve all your disk related errors. If it is not ideal solution for you, then you can delete that particular file and restart the disk checking process.
Though, these methods can resolve the issues of overlapped extent allocation but can not recover the lost data. To get your data back, you need to go for Mac Data Recovery.
Mac Data Recovery is best possible using third party Mac Recovery software. These tools are capable of systematically scanning whole hard drive and ending up at perfect and safe Data Recovery Mac.
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