Mac data recovery from crashed MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro by Apple is a line of portable computers based on Macintosh operating system. The MacBook Pro has almost replaced the PowerBook G4 and is placed at the high end of the MacBook class. Irrespective of its technological advancement, it is quite possible that it can crash at times and you need to run the general Disk Utility or the fsck command to repair. However, failing to the above may put you in trouble accessing your valuable data and you need an effective Mac recovery software to recover them back from the troubled Mac drive.

The problem:

While working, hard drive of your MacBook Pro crashed, leaving all your data in the drive inaccessible. In normal start-up, the drive didn't even appear on the desktop. However, through Disk Utility, The disk appears, but fails to mount. Moreover, sometimes, while booting and holding down the OPTION key, the drive shows-up, but doesn't boot either in Mac OS X or in Windows.

Cause:

There can be enormous reasons, for which the hard disk of your MacBook Pro has crashed. However, here it may be any file system error due to a power surge, excessive heat, virus, or malware intrusion.

Resolution:

The above told situations propel users to do something wrong in haste, as they used to feel that they have seen the hard drive appeared and are nearly at solving the issue. However, any wrong step can cost the whole data. So, it is always advised to have a try with the Disk Utility or the 'fsck' command first.

1. Try booting the the Mac system in safe mode by pressing down the SHIFT key. Check, whether you can be able to see the hard disk and able to mount it.
2. If you fail in the above process, try running the Disk Utility. For this, restart your Mac OS X from the system disc by pressing down the key 'C'.
3. Under Disk Utility, click on the 'First Aid' tab.
4. Select the Mac OS X disk and click on the button 'Repair'.
5. Try running the 'fsck' command by typing /sbin/fsck -fy at the command prompt.
6. If you still fail to mount the hard drive, then you have to recover the data from the updated backup and make a fresh installation of the Mac OS X after formatting in order to resolve the issue.

However, if you have not taken backup of your data or failed to restore it from the backup server, then a Mac recovery software will be a worth purchase for recovering the inaccessible data. These Mac recovery utilities are capable of recovering any lost, deleted, formatted Mac data with ease.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is a wonderful utility that can recover your almost every lost/deleted/inaccessible Mac data including documents, files, folders, images, multimedia files etc. This Mac recovery application is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9.