In computing, data recovery is a process of salvaging inaccessible data from computed or damaged secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data they store cannot be accessed in a normal way. Recovery may be required due to physical damage to the storage device or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from mounted from the host operating system. The best data recovery software for MAC OS is:
The advanced data recovery utility, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery – Professional salvages deleted or lost data from the internal hard disk drive or solid state drive of Mac family of computers and even from external/removable data storage devices such as Time Machine Backup, USB flash drive, memory card, and CD/DVD.
- Recovers files and folders permanently deleted from Trash
- Restores data from inaccessible, encrypted, or unmounted volume
- Provides option to recover data from a non-booting Mac
- Recovers data from MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro
The utility is easy to use and provides complete data recovery functionality to make it suitable for novice as well as advanced users. Beginners can quickly recover data by using the default selection, specifying a drive for scanning, and recovering the entire data set. While professionals can use advanced settings, customize, perform deep-scan, preview scanned items, and recover precise data.
The tool is versatile enough to recover any type of data (email, documents, folders, video, audio, or photos) from any kind of data loss situation (accidental deletion, formatting of a storage drive, corruption in Boot Camp partition, or volume encryption). The software acts as a savior against data loss disaster for corporates and a means to get back lost memories for individuals.
Users need a basic Mac computer with Intel processor, internal secondary storage unit with free space of 50 MB, random access memory of 1 GB, and Mac operating system version 10.6 or above to fully utilize the power of the software.
Wondershare Data Recovery Software
Wondershare data recovery tools lets you to restore the lost, deleted or the formatted data from our computer and removable storage device as well as it is easy and fast. While installing the trial version; there are certain limitations like we can recover up to 100MB of data for trial versions and though we searched for the lost items we were able to recover 100MB of the total lost data. While installing the full version; there are certain benefits like you can recover unlimited data and we can restore multiple files using registered software. Recovery modes consist of several types such as Lost File, Partition , Raw , Resume.
• Lost File Mode: The process of restoration is done in the following steps:-
1: Launch Wondershare
2: Click lost files recovery
3: Select the path of the lost files and decide whether to enable a deep scan or not.
4: Start to scan
5: Preview the founded files and select the ones you want to recover.
6: Click” RECOVER” to select the lost files.
• Partition Mode: The process of restoration is done in the following steps :-
1: Launch Wondershare data recovery.
2: Select “PARTITION RECOVERY”.
3: Select hard drive
4: Select partition to scan and decide whether the raw recover is needed.
5: Start to scan
6: Preview the founded files and select the ones you want to recover.
7: Click “RECOVER” to get your lost files back.
• RAW Mode: The process of raw recovery is done in the following steps:-
1: Launch Wondershare data recovery
2: Select raw recovery
3: Select the logical drives and decide whether to scan all files or the deleted files.
4: Start to scan
5: Preview the founded files and select the ones you want to recover.
6: Click “RECOVER” to get the lost files back.
• RESUME option: This process can save the scan info, so it will be possible for you to access the information in future just click the save info and select the directory and when you want to resume the restoration, simply launch the software and click the resume recovery then select the generated file of Wondershare, you will simply get the scan information to the point we saved.
2. Cisdem Data Recovery for MAC
It provides a platform for MAC OS x10.8+ with a price of $49.99, is the most easy to use tool and fast data recovery option for MAC. It also provides free trial to scan and preview the entire lost file. We can download and test it if it is what the provider says. Whatever crashed, corrupted or reformatted hard drive, or deleted, damaged files, this is the best restoration software for MAC can make it. Wildest file types are supported to recover, any format of photo, video, audio or document, archive, etc or we can use it to recover data from our hard drive or external.
PROS:
• Intuitive interface
• Easy to use
• Powerful and flexible
• Safe to use
• Preview before recovery
CONS:
• No version for Windows users.
It provides a platform for MAC OS X 10.7.5 or later for a price of $99 and is an exclusive hard drive restoration software that lets us find and restore files lost occurred with an accidental deletion or because of damage to the drive they are stored on.
PROS:
• Comes with intuitive interface
• Offers Paper Byte as low entry level pricing options for those in need of just recovering a few files or a small hard drive.
CONS:
• Scan and restoration speeds are slower.
• For free trial version we need to fill up the application form.
It provides a platform for OS X 10.6.8 or latter with the price of $89 which can be extremely intuitive while recovering all types of photos from all types of file systems and drives. It is able to protect all files from accidental deletion with recovery vault and recover lost data from MAC disks.
PROS:
• Scan and preview files for free without buying.
CONS:
• Interface complicated and difficult to navigate.
• Scan result comes out with original names and folder addresses.
