Let us now explore some of the third party software available in the market that can add a new dimension in data recovery from a Mac Operating System. Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is one of the most efficient recovery tools available. The tool is capable of recovering lost data from a variety of file systems, such as HFS, HFS Plus, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes. It is compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther. This user-friendly tool can recover all kinds of corrupted data like documents, music, videos, pictures, emails etc. Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery can recover deleted files, a complete drive or just one or more specific files that you wish to recover. The tool is empowered with multiple features like Mac Style Find option, fast scanning and searching facilities.
Kernel Data Recovery Mac Software is another data rescue tool for an affected Mac OS. This advanced tool is capable of recovering corrupted, deleted, and formatted partitions from crashed drives. It can recover data from HFS and HFS Plus systems. The tool can recognize and preserve long file names during data recovery. It extends full support for IDE, EIDE, SCSI and SATA drives.
Data Rescue 3 is one of the most popular and versatile data recovery tools for Macintosh operating system. The latest version has a user-friendly interface and refined search algorithms. Data Rescue 3 can recognize more than 100 popular file types and provides high-class data rescue results. The user can easily be acquainted with the tool. The scanning algorithm of Data Rescue 3 scans only the free area of your drive and speeds up the search process.
Data Rescue 3 can recover files that are corrupted, are unable to mount, or those that do not show up in the Volume List. Those who are technically sound, can enable advanced features of the tool and attempt data recovery for difficult cases.
The tool is highly safe. It never makes any alterations in the drive from which you are trying to recover data. The restored files should be saved to a separate drive - say an external hard drive, or a network drive. You can cut down your data recovery costs by relying on this tool as you can operate on your own in most cases. Only for the complicated cases, you may not be able to recover data on your own and seek professional help. Professional data recovery houses also rely on Data Rescue 3!
Be Cautious!
Before we end this article, here are a few words of wisdom for you. Remember one of the fundamental rules for data recovery. You should not ever write to the disk that contains the files that you wish to rescue. This is because, if you write on to the affected drive, chances are that your lost files will be overwritten by the new files.