Monday, March 4, 2013

How to Recover data from Unbootable MacBook Pro

Mac computers are best known for their reliability, efficiency, and performance. MacBook Pro is one of the most widely used portable Mac systems. While enjoying working on a quality graphical user interface, at times, you might come across boot up issues when you start your MacBook Pro. You may face the problem even if you have configured your Mac.

Symptoms
When you press the power switch to boot your Mac, a gray screen is appeared along with an Apple logo and a spinning wheel.

Cause
You will surely want to know what actually caused the problem. The boot up issue generally occurs when the system preferences are changed before you shut down your MacBook Pro.

Consequences
As you know well that if you are not able to boot your computer, all the data stored in it goes to an inaccessible state. It is a kind of data loss, because you just cannot access data at the time you want it, until unless the problem is resolved.

Whether you use Mac personally or at work, in both the cases, it halts the task you are going through if the system refuses to start. Especially in work environment, the situation is full of fear as you are worried about the loss of data. At work, even a bit of information is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to find a solution as early as possible.
Resolution
Data loss is one of the greatest problems, particularly in professional environment. To get rid of it and to perform MacBook Pro Recovery, you are suggested to do the following:
  • During startup, start the system in safe mode by pressing the ‘shift’ key
  • Press ‘command + s’ in order to boot the MacBook in Single User mode
  • Press ‘command + v’ to boot your system in Verbose mode
  • Verify the drive using Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Install disk
However, you cannot be very much sure about recovery of data after carrying out the above given steps. Just imagine, you have performed the given steps successfully and you are now able to boot your MacBook Pro. After analyzing deeply, you find that some of the data is missing. Shock! Yes, it is possible. In a nutshell, there may be 3 possible cases as follows:
  • Missing data after booting the system
  • You are not able to boot the machine after performing the given steps
  • You experience problems while carrying out the steps
You still have an effective solution that can solve the purpose successfully. A Mac data recovery software program is able to recover all the data stored on your system. Such software are developed by professionals, hence offer great results. You can get it on the Internet.

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