Apple Mac Data Recovery

Mac is a series of personal computer designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple™ which uses its own designed and developed operating system called MAC OS. The original Mac used “Motorola” and “IBM” processors, however recently they have launched their new hardware based on Intel x86 processors. The Mac OS which is used natively on Mac hardware was originally known as “System Software,” the current version of Mac OS is Mac OS X which has been code named like puma, jaguar, panther, tiger and leopard.

Mac OS X saves data using HFS and HFS+ (Extended and Journaled) file system; like all other platforms, Mac users also face data loss, some of the most common causes for data loss which are supported at Disk Doctor Labs have been indicated below.

What are the Symptoms of a Data Device Failure?

Your data device might be displaying any one of the symptoms listed below. This can be due to physical damage to the storage device or logical corruption to the file system or operating system. Below, we have listed many of them.

  • Mac Machine won't boot
  • Clicking sound heard from device
  • Hard disk drive not spinning up
  • Electronics controller card is damaged
  • Smoke was observed / smelled
  • Virus attack has corrupted the file system
  • Accidentally deleted files / directories
  • Accidental reformatting of partitions
  • Missing or deleted partitions
  • Applications are unable to run or load data
  • Device firmware has become corrupt
  • Hard disk drive components failure
  • Fire or water damage
  • Inaccessible drives / partitions

What are My Data Recovery Options?

Disk Doctors' has been serving Mac users as well as printing, graphics design, animation, and entertainment industries that mostly use Mac platforms.

If your device has displayed any of the symptoms listed above, then you may consider any of the following recommendations.

DIY (Do It Yourself)

Although data storage devices in most of the Mac laptops and desktops are not easily accessible, but if one is technically savvy and comfortable in handling the data storage devices, and sure about physical fitness of their data storage device, then they can download demo versions of recovery software to determine whether the issue could be addressed using a recovery utility before spending money to purchase the software. If this helps, then more power to you.

Note: Data storage devices in most Mac machines are not easily accessible; and any attempt trying to get the hard disk drive out may result in unnecessary damage to the machine itself. Therefore, we do not recommend this solution to most; as we have observed the situations getting out of hand while attempting DIY quite often mostly due to inexperience. And often destroying any chances of future recovery attempts.

Get Professional Help

If your data is vital, then seeking professional help to recover is the only way to go about it. Professional help includes only well established and reputed data recovery companies with a proven track record.

Taking your disk drive to a computer store for data recovery purpose equates asking a nurse for brain surgery; as 99% of the computer stores' recovery capabilities are quite inadequate as data recovery services is not their core business.

How Much Data Recovery Would Cost?

The recovery cost for a single Mac hard disk drive with HFS or HFS+ can run a wide range (anything from $350 to $3000 depending upon the nature of problem). It may not be possible for us to offer an exact recovery cost without diagnosing the data storage media. The best thing would be bringing or shipping the problem drive to our lab. We will perform a free evaluation of your device and give you an exact dollar quote based on the challenge on hand. The diagnosis process takes 2-6 hours and is performed as soon as we receive the faulty data storage media. So, we prefer to offer free diagnosis (a saving of $150) before we give you a no-obligation firm recovery quote. At that time, you can decide whether to go ahead with the recovery process or decline it. Upon your quote approval, we will try to fix the drive problems, recover the data, and a list of files and directories of recovered data will be emailed to you for verification. The recovery cost is independent of the size of recovered data. No recovery results in zero charge except return shipping.

Why Should I Select Disk Doctors?

When individuals and enterprise users need a dependable, quick, technologically superior, and yet reasonably priced data recovery services; they have chosen “Disk Doctors” repeatedly, as our services and success rate has been second to none.

Rescuing data from Mac hard disk drives, XServe & XSAN RAID arrays, tape backups, CDs, DVDs, and flash memory sticks is a daily routine.

At Disk Doctor Labs, we have the best Mac recovery technicians having thorough technical knowledge on MAC OS, MAC platforms and file systems, thus empowering us to provide the most specialized Mac data recovery services than anyone else in this field. Let's see what our customers have to say about Disk Doctors?

How to Contact Disk Doctors?

Disk Doctor's support options include online case submissions, phone consultation, and live chat services. Familiarizing your data loss situation is pretty important; and this is why we highly recommend you to call our customer service representatives. Our dedicated data recovery services support team is highly trained and will answer your questions in terms you will understand. Our support team is always there to help you in the best way that we can. To make things smoother, we offer a number of contact methods for you to select.

Your Data Recovery Starts Here

At Disk Doctors, no project is too small or too big. We treat them all with the same dedication. Wether you are an end user, government agency or business enterprise we can always help.

To place your failed drive in recovery gear, please do not hesitate to call us or request a free recovery quote.

Call us at 1-800-347-5377 Click here to request a quote