Why Is Data Recovery Expensive? Is There Any Alternative Way to Recover My Data?
Summary: In this blog, we’ll share the reasons for the pricey nature of data recovery and provide an alternative way to recover your lost data on Mac. You’ll learn:
1. Reasons for High-Priced Data Recovery
2. Free Software Method to Recover Mac Data
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When you go for data recovery software for Mac, you’ll always find it quite pricey. Do you know the reason, why data recovery is so expensive? The next section lists a few common reasons.
1. Reasons for High-Priced Data Recovery
- Involves state-of-the-art technology and software to get back lost data from a drive
- Takes hours to scan a high-storage capacity hard drive and recover data
- Uses Class 100 Clean Room to open a damaged hard drive
- Replaces damaged components of a hard drive from a donor drive
- Requires cloning of damaged hard drive to avoid further data loss in the recovery process
- Includes transport charges to send and receive the drive to and from its owner
This justifies the high price for data recovery from a reliable service center. But do you think you always need to send your drive to a specialist for data recovery? The answer is no. In the next section, we’ll share an alternative way that can help you recover your lost data on macOS.
2. Free Software Method to Recover Mac Data
If your Mac hard drive doesn’t have any physical damage and works perfectly, then instead of taking help from a service center you must first try out a free Mac data recovery software to scan the drive and recover lost, deleted, formatted, encrypted, or inaccessible data from the drive.
Steps to recover data from Mac hard drive:
- Download & install Stellar Data Recovery Free Edition on your Mac.
- Launch the software to interact with its easy-to-use graphical user interface.
- From ‘Select What To Recover’ screen, select the required file types then click Next.
- From ‘Select Location’ screen, select the drive, click Deep Scan, and then click Scan.
- When the scan is complete, double-click a file to preview. Save the scan information.
- Select critical files (up to 1 GB) then click Recover.
- Click Browse to specify a different volume then click Save.
- When the recovery is complete, visit the save location to test the recovered files.
Stellar Data Recovery Free Edition for Mac provides unlimited free drive scanning and file preview plus 1 GB of free file saving. To save all the recoverable data, you need to activate the software.
Why spending on a data recovery software is worthy for recovering your precious data?
The cost of purchasing the activation license for a data recovery software is trivial compared to the cost of recovering your data from a service center. So, if you value your precious data and wish to get it back at an affordable rate, then get the best Mac data recovery software for a limited period to recover your lost data from all logical data loss situations.
Affordable editions of Stellar Data Recovery Software for Mac
Stellar Data Recovery Free Edition for Mac software can be activated to Standard Edition at a nominal 1-year subscription plan. Plus, you can unlock advanced features of the activated software, anytime, by upgrading it to a higher edition (Professional, Premium, or Technician) by paying only the difference amount. Further, all Stellar software has a 30-day money-back guarantee in case you aren’t satisfied with the product. So, activate the software with full confidence.
Read More: Edition Comparison of Stellar Data Recovery Software for Mac
Conclusion
Now you know why data recovery is so expensive and how you can recover your data from your Mac or Mac-based storage drive at an affordable rate. But, if your Mac hard drive, be it internal or external, has a physical failure and your data is critical, you’ve no choice other than sending it to a data recovery expert.
For all logical data loss scenarios, Stellar Data Recovery Free Edition for Mac is what you need to salvage your data without paying heavily on data recovery from a service center. The do-it-yourself software is compatible with macOS Catalina 10.15 and earlier and supports APFS, HFS+, HFS, NTFS, FAT, and exFAT file systems.
About The Author
Vishal
Vishal is a data recovery expert @Stellar. He addresses data loss scenarios on a Mac. He intends to help people solve their macOS problems. Besides, Vishal prefers to read autobiographies, and his personal favorite is of Steve Jobs.
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I searched so many data recovery software and found stellar data recovery much reasonable prices.
Hello Alexander,
Thanks for your valuable comments.
Hi – I’m wanting to recover .wav files that were among many intentionally deleted. I’ve used your free software and am looking at the “deleted” list, and it is quite long, with unrecognizable titles. Is there a way I can “preview” to make sure I’m not bothering to recover a bunch of files I don’t need? Do I need to purchase the pro software for this? Thanks!
To clarify – I only want to recover 2 or 3 files, and there is a long list here…
Hello Julie,
Thanks for writing to us.
Your query is forwarded to support team and they will connect with you soon.
Regards
Vishal
As far as my experience is concerned, I don’t really care if all my important data is recovered back. Data is new age Digital Goldmine.
Good to know Pete that you value your data.
I have imac which had SMART defect on hard drive and I got to apple recommended CORE team near my home and they were not able to recover pictures , can they be recovered from my hard drive which was given to me after putting a new one
thanks
mohan
Hi dhramionder,
Data recovery depends upon the your hard drive’s condition and importantly the deleted files which yet are not overwritten. Data recovery in your case is possible if the deleted files still exist on the blocks of your drive. I recommend you connect your storage drive to Mac and run Stellar Mac Data Recovery Professional. After scan completion you can preview your data. Free try the tool and let me know.
Hello vishal,
M using high Sierra after updating From store.
before some days I had problem in my Mac book while starting it.it shows login window and after entering password It won’t started and showed error your computer has restarted because of a problem.
So I saw on Apple support An article on this and I re installed OS via Internet recovery.but in disc utility by mistake I chose an option restore from os x on Macintosh hd after that I re install OS x and now my hard disk name has changed to os x and it shows empty.
I had 560 GB data out of 750GB capacity and now I want that data.
Please help me out Sir.
Thanks.
Kalpesh.
Hi Kalpesh,
Looks like you don’t have the backup with you. Still, you can recover your formatted data using Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac. I advise you to start the scan on your MacBook without much delay. Once the scan is completed, the software will show you all the recoverable files. You can purchase (register) the software once you are satisfied with the demo. Thanks
Hi Vishal
I have got locked Samsung hard drive, due to Bitlocker. the short storey is: I had plugged in win 7 pc at work and i pulled the usb as seen there was nothing happening for the whole day, I thought it hanged, there was no recovery key or setting up opportunity given to me. Now I cant access my files.
Is there anyway to recover them from the hard drive.
Please let me know.
thanks
Raj
Hello Raj,
Please let us know whether the Samsung Hard Drive is visible in device manager?
I had my hard drive die and unfortunately the backup system I was using did not update the last time I used it. I’ve lost some very special photos and important papers. I’ve already changed out the hard drive. Is there anyway to still recover the photos and paperwork?
Hi Beth,
Your best bet is to try Stellar Mac Data Recovery demo on your hard drive. Download it and run a free scan as early as possible. Do let us know.
Hi Vishal,
I have lost my Photo library and searched everywhere with no luck. Could you get me the free data recovery for Mac application? If I will dine it suitable I will surely upgrade. Thanks.
Hi John,
You arrived on time.
Here is the free Mac data recovery registration page.
Good Luck.
Thanks,
Hi Vishal, I was having windows 7 on bootcamp in macbook pro (mid2012) and recently I wanted to increase bootcamp size. To do this, I created a separate partition in mac using disk utility and merged the new portion with bootcamp partition using a third party boot disk. Since then, my bootcamp partition is lost. In the disk utility, I can see mackintosh HD (200GB) and untitled (300GB). Can you please suggest me the best way to restore windows as well as to recover my files in bootcamp. Thanks.
Hello Rao,
Try this tips to make your BootCamp available on Mac BootCamp restore. If this doesn’t work then, you have to format the entire HDD and reinstall Mac and Windows separately. But you must have to take a full backup of your data. Otherwise, you can use Stellar Mac Data Recovery software to recover lost/deleted BootCamp partition.
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Does Stellar offer some discount options for buying a Mac data recovery software?
No, Stellar doesn’t provide any discount just for buying a single Mac file recovery software, However, if you are buying a toolkit which consists of Windows, Mac and Linux software for data recovery, then you will get some discount offer. Please visit the below link to know more about it: https://www.stellarinfo.com/data-recovery-toolkit.php