Thursday, April 15, 2010

Mac file recovery: A layman's guide to recover lost data

Hard drive failure and data loss is a like a nightmare for most of the computer users around the world every one of us has faced this kind of situation because Even the most stable and reliable operating system have to face failure at some point of time and - Mac OS X is not an exception either. System failure is basically of two types.

• Logical failure

• Physical failure

In both cases, you lose access to your precious data and data loss situations arrives. The most viable option left with us is to restore data from an updated backup to save you from lot of troubles. However, if the backup is not available or updated, you need to carry out Mac data Recovery to get your valuable data back.

In order to do recovery of lost data from Mac OS X hard drive the following steps are to taken:

• Check the type and cause of problem .

• Check hard drive consistency and integrity - Use Disk Utility or ‘fsck’ to detect and fix hard drive errors

• Format the hard drive and reinstall OS.

• Restore data from backup

And if the back is not available or updated then third party Mac file recovery applications or softwares are to be used to carry out data recovery operations

Such utilities are specifically designed to carry out in-depth scan of whole hard disk using powerful scanning algorithms and perform
file recovery mac in a perfect manner. They have interactive GUI.