How To Recover Lost Data After Formatting Mac Hard Drive?

Mac OS X hard drive is a reliable and non-volatile storage media to store your data permanently. The drive holds your valuable data, even after power failure, until you delete it. The drive comprises of numerous data structures to store, access, organize, and manipulate your valuable data. In such situations, the critical disk data structures may corrupt and you need to format the hard drive to replace them with new data structures. However, this process also removes all the data from hard drive and causes data loss. In such cases, you need to opt for Mac data recovery solutions to extract lost, missing, deleted, and inaccessible data from problem hard drive.

The Mac OS X hard drive formatting process restructures entire hard drive to store new data. It fixes a number of problems, such as bad sectors, resource conflicts, cross-linked files, serious virus infection that cannot be fixed using an anti-virus software, file system corruption, and catalog file damage. You can format your Mac OS X hard drive using Disk Utility. Go through the underwritten steps to format Mac hard drive:

·     Open hard drive and then Disk Utility program.

·     Select a volume to format. You cannot format startup volume of your Mac OS X computer, unless you boot the system from installation disk.

·     Click ‘Erase’ tab and select appropriate option for formatting the disk.

·     Enter a name that you want to set a label of your hard drive.

·     Click Erase button to start the formatting process.

Although, formatting is able to fix most of the hard drive related logical problems, but it also removes all the data from the disk and puts you in need of file recovery Mac solutions.

When you format a Mac OS X hard drive, the file system of disk is replaced with a new empty file system. Thus, the entries of all the files and directories stored on the disk are erased and they become inaccessible. It causes data loss and require Mac recovery to be sorted out.

Recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as Mac hard drive recovery software. These software posses high-end scanning techniques to carry-out thorough scan of entire disk to extract all lost data from it. Such tools are pretty safe and easy to use.

Recover Your data in case of Desktop DB file corruption in Mac

In a Mac system,the Desktop DB or Desktop DF files are invisible files which can not be located by normal users. The files were originally created by the Desktop Manager to maintain the information in addition to the Finder's Desktop file at that particular time. Finder's Desktop file contains information about virtually everything on your Mac system including applications, hard drives, files and folders etc. These files were designed to be acted as high performance databases to support faster access of information in Apple Share servers.

However, if these files get damaged, you won't be able to access your data. Whenever you try to access a file or start an application, the process will halt with an error message stating that the desktop database is corrupt and you need to rebuild it by deletion and recreation. Hence, to get back your valuable data, you need any good and effective Mac data recovery software.

The Error message may read like:

“-1305 desktopDamagedErr The desktop database has become corrupted - the Finder will fix this, but if your application is not running with the Finder, use DTReset or DTDelete”

Cause:

These kind of errors arise due to the corruption of Finder's Desktop DB file. Following are some of the reasons behind the corruption of the file:

· Improper system shutdown

· Virus infection

· Conflict of system data structure

· Grown size of database etc.

Resolution

You have to rebuild the Finder's Database file to fix the above issue. Follow the steps to carry out this task:

· Restart the Mac system and press OPTION and COMMAND keys and hold them throughout the time of startup.

· When startup process completes, a confirmation dialog box with the message “Are you sure you want to rebuild the Desktop file” will pop up. Release the OPTION and COMMAND keys and click “OK” button in dialog box.

· If the above method fails, you need to use DTDelete command to delete the database and recreate it.

The above process will definitely resolve the issue by recreating the database files, but all your valuable information from the hard drive will be removed causing severe data loss. The situation demands only Mac Recovery to help you retrieve all your lost data.

These Mac Data Recovery tools use high-end scanning algorithms to carry out in-depth scan of the hard drive and recover back all your lost or inaccessible data. These software are risk free and with their interactive graphical user interface, quite easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is one of the best known Mac data recovery software in the market. The best part of this application is that it can deal with any type of Mac data loss instances with edge. It supports recovery from almost all file system volumes in Mac and obviously a worthy choice to make.