Best software to recover deleted partition files on Mac book Pro
Macintosh or Mac is the operating system designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. There are a series of operating systems such as Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, etc. They support file systems like HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS5, etc for storing and manipulating data in organized manner. All the data is stored on the hard disk of the Mac OS X. Hard disk is a critical part for storing digital data. You can store huge amount of valuable data and different applications in your hard disk. For proper utilization of your hard disk space, it is being segmented into several logical drives known as partitions or volumes.
Hard drive stores data on an electromagnetic disk. The hard disks are partitioned to efficiently organize the critical system files and user data. Partitioning improves the system performance and speed. Many users partition their drives to install different operating systems on each volume or partition. The Mac OS X operating system permits the user to make logical division either to HFS+ or HFSX partitions. If your operating boot volume gets corrupt then the disk partition prevents data loss as it loses data from system file partition without affecting your data present in user partition. Common problem in hard disk is partition getting corrupt due to various reasons resulting in huge loss of data. To recover deleted partition files from Mac book Pro you can make use of some efficient Mac data recovery software. This partition recovery software helps to external hard drive deleted partition data restore from all the versions of Mac OS X.
Some common causes for deletion of data from Mac Operating System are as follows:
- Improper method used during backup: Taking back up over a network or connecting an external drive using the AirPort Extreme which is not compatible with Time Machine may results in data loss.
- Third Party Applications: If some third party application corrupts the volume header, which stores all the details of the volume like creation date and time, size of volume, location of volume structures, etc, then if this corrupt the volume is inaccessible and there is huge loss of data.
- Data loss due to re-formatting a partition: Sometimes you may feel its necessary to change file system on Mac for which you need to reformat the hard drive volumes. Errors during the file systems conversion can result in corruption of the partition.
- Data loss due to re-partitioning the hard drive: When the size of an existing partition needs to be changed or a new partition needs to be created, re- partitioning needs to be done. Improper re-partitioning process or errors while repartitioning might corrupt the existing partitions and results in loss of data.
- Virus Attack: If Apple Partition Map gets corrupt by some harmful virus or malware, then also all the data is deleted and lost. If the Master Boot Record gets corrupt or damaged then also data is lost and deleted.
These were some of the prominent reasons, which cause huge loss of data. In case to avoid data loss you need to take precaution in backing up files present on hard drive. If you fail to have backup then you need to make use of the appropriate Mac data restoration software that can perform Mac deleted partition recovery. Mac data recovery software has some divergent features in recovering data from Mac OS X. Recovers files that were deleted from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 partitions or volumes. It can restore deleted partition files from formatted and re-formatted partitions or volumes. It supports recovery of files from external hard drives, USB drives, memory sticks, FireWire drives, etc. You can download the free demo version of the software and check its ability of recovering deleted data. It helps to retrieve partition data on IDE hard disk drives and other types of hard disk.
Steps to undelete partition files from Mac book Pro:
Step 1: Download and install the demo version of the software. Start the program by double clicking the desktop shortcut. The main window is displayed as shown in Figure 1. Select "Recover Volumes / Drives" option from the main window.
Figure 1. Main Screen
Step 2: When you select "Recover Volumes / Drives" option, a new window is shown. Select "Volumes Recovery" option and proceed to the next step. When you select "Volumes Recovery" option, the software detects all the physical volumes and displays it as shown in Figure 2. Select the drive from which you want to restore lost volume and click on "Next"
Figure 2. Select Drive
Step 4: When you click Next you get an option to search for a particular file based on its unique signature and scanning process starts. Select the file types ehich you want to recover. You can also skip this step by clicking "Skip" option. When the scanning process is completed the software displays the recovered files as shown in Figure 3. You can save the recovered files using "Save Recovery Session" option.
Figure 3. Recovered Files
