Prospecting Data

Anyone who has ever accidentally deleted an important file knows that it takes only around 5 seconds before you realize you have made a mistake. Nevertheless it always seems that we realize we need to rescue a lost, damaged or deleted file just after we inadvertently throw them away. Powerful programs to undelete trash on Mac computers are now available from Remo Software. Unlike lower quality programs for Mac file recovery that must be operated from a Windows platform and connected to your Mac by means of cables, this new powerful suite of tools from Remo Software downloads directly onto your Mac and from that vantage point can both scan the existing and deleted files on your computer’s internal hard disk drive and look through any digital media connected to that Mac.

Long considered a leader in the data recovery industry based on the phenomenal success of their programs for Windows recycle bin recovery, the Remo Mac data recovery tools are proving to be equally user friendly and effective. As with all of the Remo Software products the Mac recovery tool is designed with a wizard style user friendly interface. This allows even the most inexperienced computer owner to follow a few prompts, check a few boxes and very quickly find and restore lost files.

Did you know that in 95% of all cases where a Windows blue error screen shows on startup of your computer that the only problem lies in a simple logic crash. A logic crash merely means that important files needed for your computer to start up Windows have gone missing. More precisely these files were corrupted just enough during shutdown or startup of your PC so as to make them unreadable. Replacing these files will immediately return your computer to full operational status.

However before you replace your operating system files by reloading Windows you will need to access all of your important stored files on your computer’s hard drive and save them to a new temporary location. After you save these files you can reinstall them onto your hard disk drive. This process of copying from a failed hard drive stored files is generally referred to as data or file recovery. Software is available to make data recovery of this kind is very simple task.

I was just looking at a great free data recovery tool called Recuva. As free tools go this is probably one of the best. However in a true case of you get what you pay for Recuva has several limitations. One of these is that the program cannot recognize deleted files where the hard drive boot sectors have been damaged. What this means is that the program uses certain aspects of Windows to find certain types of deleted files.

Another problem with this free program is its ability to recover deleted photos. The program is perfectly adept at finding common image file types on a computer hard drive or connected peripheral device such as a USB flash drive. But this program fails in any attempt to locate specialized unique format camera manufacturer files known as RAW files. Considering that 90% of all situations where we need to recover digital photos involve these special files the free program will simply not suffice.

Very often people write to me and ask if I can recommend a general purpose data recovery tool that will work equally well to recover lost data from Mac and Windows based computers. There are available a few data recovery tools that claim to be able to accomplish this feat, however in my experience these claims prove to be false. To recover data from a Mac computer you will need to use a program specifically designed for this purpose. The main reason for this is that the operating systems for Mac and Windows based computers are completely different and cannot recognize their opposite applications.

Another issue that sometimes arises is that certain models of Mac computers actually use processors that are incompatible with even the most universal applications. Those programs that purport to be able to recover Mac files and Windows files online are generally Windows data recovery tools that have been semi adapted to allow access to a Mac hard drive when connected by means of cables. This is hardly an acceptable solution. The best way to recover Mac data is to download the Mac recovery tool from Remo Software. Within just a few minutes even those with zero computer expertise can easily use this software to locate damaged or deleted files on their Mac and recover them to a safe location.