How to recover data from unmountable volumes on Macintosh OS X?

 

Author Creative Team on January 27, 2012 | Print Email |

 

Logical volumes act as independent partitions in your Mac hard drive and are helpful in storing different categories of data separately. While booting, the Mac OS X mounts the local file system and learns about the Mac volumes in the hard drive. In Mac, to access data from a volume, the corresponding volume must be mounted. But, sometimes the Mac volumes get unmountable, following any instance of virus/malware infection, file system corruption, OS malfunction etc and all your precious data in them become completely inaccessible.

For such situations, Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery has come up with an innovative solution and to easily perform data recovery from unmountable volumes. With the 'Quick Recovery' option of the software, you can recover all your data from the 'No Mountable Volumes' quickly and efficiently. Below steps will give you a clear idea on the easy recovery process of the software:

Data Recovery From Unmountable Volumes or Drives

Run Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery and click the 'Quick Recovery' icon under the 'Drive Recovery' tab.

 The 'Select Volume' window opens, which lists all the mounted as well as unmounted volumes in your Mac system. The volumes which were not mounted earlier will be shown as different icons (not so prominent), along with the other mountable Mac volumes. Select the 'No Mountable Mac Volume' and click the button.

 The software scans the selected volume and lists all the recoverable files and folders in a tree view. While scanning the volume, the software shows preview of the recoverable files. Also, after completion of the scanning process, you can click any file from the tree and see the preview, using Mac preview.

 Select the files or folders to be recovered and click the 'Recover' button on the bottom right corner of the interface.
 Provide the destination location and the software will save all the recovered data at the specified location.

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Category: Mac Data Recovery

Last updated on January 27, 2012 with 854 views

3 User Comments

kp.gores
May 3, 2012 11:45 am

Hi, i di use stellar phoenix version 4 on my powerpc mac. It run about 1 1/2 days and came up with results. I saved the scan. The applications documentation promises that one can resume restore from a saved scan. I shut down my mac and later wantedt to c ontinue with restoring using the saved scan file. THIS DOES nOT WORK. AM i doing something wrong or does the software simply does not have this feature?

kp.gores
May 6, 2012 11:24 am

found the solution myself:
the disk in question is external. so it may mount at different mount point after unmount/restart etc.
In my saved scan file the disk was expected at /dev/rdisk2, but when I resumed the restore it was mounted at /dev/rdisk3 - thus the saved scan file was useless for stellarphoenix4.
Simply editing the file did work - resuming a restore is possible.

If the current version of stellarphoenix behaves the same, dear developers. please fix this. You cannot expect to find a disk at the same mount point when using a saved scan.

regards
kp


Amit Pandey
May 10, 2012 10:18 am



Thanks Kp.gores,

We will definitely work on the suggestions.

Thanks & Regards,
Amit Pandey

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