Using Partition Manager to Create Partitions: Experience with Mac Mini Part 3

Before starting I would personally like to thank this utility  because of it me and my wife can spend more time together. Even we have decided not to use different Mac while at home. We can happily manage our works in single Mac.

As  promised, I am here with my experience with partition manager at my 10-12 days old Mac mini!!
I am sure you still remembered that I have to create two partitions of 250 GB each. But as we was working on boot volume we had to create boot DVD (which we had already created in my last post: Partitioning Boot Drive).  Now I booted my Mac with boot DVD (for which press and hold “option” button and select boot device).

As soon as I booted Mac welcome screen of partition manager appears in front of me welcoming and introducing the software.

At the welcome screen it tried to educate me about what the software can do. (No doubt it also showed whole information before creating the Boot DVD).  It said partition manager can:
Create new Volume
Delete  exiting volume
Resize exiting volume (without data loss)

with clicking “continue” the screen I landed upon is software initial process screen.

The screen showing the list of the drives present in my Mac and as soon as when I clicked one of the drive the screen in front of me was saying thousand of words about the drive. It showing drive information (Description, Size and partition map) and also educating me how to use perform next operation by saying select the volume to make changes. Also I saw some of the options present at the top of the screen as:

• Add                                       
• Format                                            
• Delete Hide Reveal                         
• Start                                                
• Stop                                                
• Roll Back                                         
• Refresh                                          

My common sense started working and I clicked on Add (as I need to do partition of drive) and I saw software asking me to decide the size and name of the volume which I wanted to add:

I adjusted the size of the volume and click on “Tick” and I have my drives listed in front of my eyes. What I saw was that software started making list of every operation which I love to perform on the drive.  As tried I reduce the size of one volume and add two new volume just to test. SO screen was saying exactly shown is screenshot:

After performing all the operation I wished to do what I need to do all is click on “start” button. The screen actually was showing me the preview before starting any operation. I liked this feature the most software clearly saying “Is it something you thinking to have” if yes go for it else rollback and do operations again.

Soon after the whole process complete I have two drive one for me and other for my wife I simply quit the software and my Mac booted again and with “option” key I manage to boot it via Mac hard drive instead of boot DVD.

Now, I got two partitions of 250 GB that I was expecting to do.  The experience was so nice with the partition manager. It actually made the task so much interesting that I could never even imagined!