Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Mac Data Recovery via FireWire

Mac laptops are extremely powerful and popular among users due to their combination of power and reliability, but the data loss is an unforeseen event which could happen with any system at any point of time and same is true with Mac laptops also.
Data recovery from laptop computers is somewhat different as compared to desktop. In order to recover lost data, you need to install Mac data recovery software on a healthy computer and have to attach your affected hard drive to the same.

If you are having data loss from desktop computer, then you can easily detach the hard drive and can attach it to a healthy computer, which have data recovery Mac software installed and can carry out easy Mac data recovery. This process doesn’t require any sound technical knowledge and general Mac users can perform it very easily.

When it comes to data loss from laptop computers, detaching the hard drive becomes very sophisticated for general computer users. In such situations, they have to fetch their laptop to hard drive service, which is very expensive and time consuming.

Now, apart from sending your laptop to hard drive expert, there is an another solution- attaching your laptop to another Mac through FireWire. You can install Mac data recovery software on a healthy Mac computer and attach your affected laptop to this computer, without detaching the hard drive from it.

FireWire is a high performance Serial Bus, usable with Mac and Windows computers. It is used for connecting devices to the computer. It has a single plug-and-socket connection on which you can attach up to 63 types of devices. Also known as IEEE 1394 and i.Link, FireWire is a plug and play hardware connector. For connection through FireWire cable, it is required for
both devices to have FireWire connector.

Not all Mac data recovery software supports recovery through FireWire, so you should make sure before purchasing one. In the process Mac data recovery using Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery, when you attach the computer via FireWire cable and run the Mac data recovery software

The software will show you the list of hard drives in the left pane including of the attached computer, you need to select the hard drive of your laptop computer and start scanning of the same. Using this Mac data recovery software is quite easy and fast. This Mac data recovery software is also able to recover data from Lacie hard drives.

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