Apple Hard Disk Data Recovery

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Apple Mac data recovery

The HFS and HFS+ file systems used by the Apple Macintosh to reference data stored on their hard drives are very different to the FAT and NTFS file systems used by Microsoft operating systems. Due to these differences, HFS & HFS+ data recovery methods and techniques follow a unique path that is quite different to that of Windows systems.

For these specific reasons Data Clinic have created specialist software enabling us to recover data from many Mac data loss situations. This software has been developed in house to address the complications of Macintosh data recovery.

Examples of errors where we can perform a full recovery of data are:

Cannot access <drive> because a disk error occurred.
This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize the disk?
The disk <drive> cannot be accessed because a disk error occurred
Segment Loader Error
No such volume
Bad file name
not a Macintosh disk
bad master directory block
drive not installed
r/w requested for an off-line drive
Directory not found
Not an HFS volume
Internal file system error

This list is by no means exhaustive there are other error messages that you may encounter.

Recovery possibilities: Data Clinic can recover data in practically all cases of corruption to a disk formatted with both HFS and HFS+, running operating systems OS 8 up to the most recent version, Mac OS X 10.4.

Specific Mac data recovery links:
Recovering lost / corrupt data from Mac OS X systems
Data recovery on X-Serve / RAID configurations
Data recovery and conversion from Apple 'Classic' (pre OS X) systems
Repair and data recovery from broken iPods

Please note that Mac systems are equally as prone to hard disk faults and hardware failure

What should I do?: Call the Data Clinic and talk your problem through with us on 0870 140 2525, or fill out our auto-form and we'll call you back

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Above: An Apple Mac G5

External hard disk problems? - read our common failures on external hard disks page

iPod problems? - read our iPod repair and data recovery page

Further reading:

OS X: File system background & data recovery