Macintosh HD not Booting? How to Recover Mac Hard Drive Data?
Some data losses require more than just running the data recovery software and recovering files from Trash or from a formatted Mac hard drives. If Macintosh HD (your Mac startup drive) fails to start the Mac then surely you’re in the midst of one of the most unfortunate situations of data losses. Though painful but we advise you not to panic since our software ‘Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery’ can help you get access to the non-booting Mac hard drive in order to recover all files from it.
Normal booting through Macintosh HD
How Stellar Phoenix boots up your troubled Mac OS X?
Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software can be registered with the option of RECOVERY CD. This recovery CD is pre-loaded with bootable Mac OS files that start up a troubled Mac and Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software itself. Please note: When you start Mac with our Recovery CD then your Macintosh HD and other partitions remains in an idle condition. This rescue media becomes a primary source for running the Mac hardware and targets the Macintosh HD (startup drive, which is now a secondary source) for restoration of files.
Stellar Phoenix recover CD boots Mac computer and recovers data from Macintosh HD
Mac data recovery in bootable environment
As mentioned above, when Mac is booted with the Recovery CD, the Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software will launch to recoup files from Macintosh HD. The recovery process is now as simple as recovering files from deleted trash or a formatted hard drive.
- Through software select the Apple Hard Drive << << Macintosh HDD
- Choose an option for file recovery from available data recovery options i.e. RAW, Deleted, Advance, Quick and Lost Volume recovery
- Proceed the scan with the selected file recovery option on Macintosh HD
- Preview all recoverable files and prepare for recovery
Conditions that require Recovery CD alongside Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software
Condition #1)
OS X El Capitan (Or below version) is corrupt and you are not able to boot into Mac OS X. However, you are able to boot into Mac through Windows OS (Bootcamp partition). Also read Recovering data from Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11
Condition #2)
Your Mac startup drive has failed logically thus making all files inaccessible on Mac computer.
Note: Software doesn’t guarantee data recovery from a physically damaged Mac hard disk drive. In order to recover a drive damaged physically contact our data recovery services team.
Pre-requites for recovering data with the help of recovery CD
- You will need a USB DVD writer or Apple SuperDrive that will help you boot the Mac with the assistance of Recovery CD.
- You will also require a large external hard drive so that data recovered from Macintosh HD is saved on it.
If you have any query related to Mac data recovery on a non-booting Mac hard drive using our software & CD then please let us know through comment section.
About The Author
Vishal
Vishal is a Mac data recovery expert at Stellarinfo.Com. He has successfully recovered number of Mac hard drives, failed drives and even unmounted drives. Follow his post to know more about data recovery and Mac backups.
My External hard drive on Mac OS X 10.10.5 became inaccessible after I force ejected it from my Mac. I think I corrupted it’s partition table. This hard drive have all the important files onto it and I can’t afford to loose the files at any cost. Please let me know my data recovery chances with Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery?
Yes please connect your hard drive and scan with the software. Let me know if you have any issues scanning and recovering files from it. Thanks.
I was browsing Youtube videos on Safari and all of a sudden my Mac frozen to death. I forced shut down the system and tried to start but it failed on the blank screen. Then again it abruptly turned off before flashing a error Debugger called: panic” “Thread 0 crashed. My all data is lying on this hard drive and Mac is failing to boot. How can I get back my files?
Hi Zion, this seems to be a possible kernel panic. If you are unable to boot Mac then get Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery with Recovery CD that will boot up the inaccessible Mac and recover files from it.
My 2 year old MacBook Pro is not booting up from last night. It makes chime noise but stays on grey screen with Apple icon and spinning wheel. Is my drive or logic board failing?
Hi Jose, please go through this helpful link to resolve grey screen of death support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 Hope this helps
Should I use target disk mode to recover files from a Mac that won’t boot or using Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery is a better choice?
Moore, try to use the later solution, i.e. take the help of Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software. It will recover all your deleted files and along with it, you can recover your videos, photos and any other type of data in case you mistakenly delete them.