Hard Drive Recovery from Macbook Air

Mac OS X is one of the most advanced operating systems introduced by Apple. It is enriched with several useful features and designed using UNIX. It uses HFS, HFS+ file systems in order to arrange files or data on its hard drives. The Mac operating system has evolved with a number of different versions from a decade some of them are Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard etc. Hard drives are otherwise called non-volatile storage devices which have extra storage capacity and higher data transfer rate than other disk drives. Each hard disk has a spindle which can hold more than one flat circular disk that are called platter. They are basically employed for storing and accessing of digital information. They are also known as Hard Disk Drive (HDD). SATA, SCSI and IDE are some commonly used hard drives. Hard drives are one of the popular storage devices now-a-days. They are commonly used for storing valuable files and folders. Data loss from hard drive on Mac OS is as common as that in Windows operating system. Even though Mac OS system provides different safety steps to protect private data, still data loss instances are taking place in the Mac system. Hard drive recovery software helps you to recover Mac data from your system.

Some common data loss situations in Mac operating system are described below:

• Data loss due to unintended actions: Data from the Mac volume can be lost due to human errors like deleting any data instead of any other data by using Shift + Delete keys, formatting wrong Mac volume while trying to format some other volume, by third party application, losing data due to failed defragmentation, data lost due to unexpected conditions like improper turn off of computer or power failure problem.


• Improper Formatting/Reformatting: Data can be lost from Mac volume because of improper formatting/reformatting i.e. formatting hard drive without proper data backup. Upgradation of the Mac operating system without proper data backup can be the other cause of data loss in Mac hard drive. However, a good formatted hard drive recovery tool can solve the issue in such a scenario. Visit this link to know more.


• Crashed Hard drive: When Mac volume fails to boot or is damaged physically, the data stored in it becomes inaccessible giving rise to data loss.


• Error in File System Conversion: Error in file system conversion on Macintosh operating system could be another cause of data loss in Mac volume.


• Partitioning Error: Error occurred during partitioning in Mac OS X could be one of the reasons for Mac data loss. Data from Mac OS may be lost because of Apple partition map corruption. Journal corruption is also one of the causes for data loss in Macbook Air.

Apart from the file loss scenarios you need to take some precautionary steps, in order to avoid further data loss from Mac hard drive in future.

• Ensure that you have taken proper data backup when you are going to reinstall the operating system or formatting any partition. As a result you wont be losing any data in both of these cases.
• Try to avoid deleting any data using Shift + Delete key combination. First delete then using Delete option only and if you feel that the deleted data is not necessary then delete them from Trash Bin.
• If you have already lost data from hard drive in Mac operating system then stop using that hard drive. This is because if the same hard drive is used for saving new data then the lost data might get overwritten with the new data. Once the lost data gets overwritten then it can never be restored using any data recovery software.

Mac hard drive retrieval software is most suitable data recovery tool to come out of such data loss situations in Mac OS. The features of this software include lost data recovery from Mac OS X partitions. This software has advanced scanning algorithm to perform hard drive recovery on Mac. This software restores data from volumes which refuse to mount. It recovers data from formatted and re-formatted volumes or drives. It recovers all the media files from external hard disk & you can know more about this on http://www.myharddriverecovery.net/how-to-recover-data-from-external-hard-drive.html. It supports Intel and Power PC Mac platforms. Different files types can be recovered and identified based on their unique signatures. Data deleted from Trash can also be retrieved by this software. It also supports data recovery from HFS+, HFSX, FAT partitions. Click here to know about hard drive recovery of files of different types. Steps for using this software are described in details below.

Steps to perform hard drive recovery from Macbook Air:

Step 1: Download and launch the free demo version of "Mac hard drive recovery software" to recover hard drive data. Select "Recover Volumes/Drives" option from the main screen as shown in Figure 1 and proceed.

Figure 1. Main Screen

Step 2: Next window comes with two options i.e "Volume Recovery" and "Formatted/Reformatted Recovery". You need to choose between them according to your need as shown in Figure 2 and proceed to the next step.

Figure 2. Select Appropriate Option

Step 3: After clicking your desired option you have to select the affected volume from which you want to recover data as shown in Figure 3 and click "Next".

Figure 3. Select Volume

Step 4: When you click on "Next" scanning process starts. The selected volume will be scanned thoroughly and you can view the recovered files both in "Data type view" and "File type view" as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Recovered Files

Step 5: After successful recovery you can use the "Save Recovery Session" option. To save the recovered files you can choose the destination location and click on Save.