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Recovery of photos from a Mac machine

Admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:24:49 +0000

Photos are very precious items, which we cherish throughout our lives. This is because, the photos would have captured a special moment, or a funny incident which we might never have the opportunity to see again. Such photos are usually very close to our heart, and losing them would bring about great sadness. But all is not gone, and we can still get back what we lost or deleted, by taking certain quick but careful steps.

Mac does offer an in-built tool for preventing data loss known as Time Machine, but this is just a quick backup tool, and not a recovery tool. In cases, where the necessary backup has not been taken, or the backup file is not updated, critical situations may arise, leading to permanent loss of data.

The first thing to do, is to stay calm, and avoid trying any “Do it yourself” methods, as this may lead to more disastrous consequences. The next precaution that you must take, is to make sure, that you stop using the camera, remove the flash memory card from it, seal it, and store it separately. Now, get yourself a good photo recovery software, that lets you recover digital photos.

Download and install REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software on another healthy machine, and connect the affected drive as a slave to this machine. Recover digital photos from the affected drive using this healthy machine.

Deleted file recovery from SD card

Admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:33:40 +0000

Now-a-days everyone owns a digital camera to record their memorable moments. But the fact is the digital pictures are lost easily than traditional film cameras, as digital cameras have a useful but dangerous delete button or feature. If that button or operation is used by accident then one or almost all pictures might get deleted instantly. At that moment we think those deleted pictures are lost enduringly. But it’s merely incorrect; in most of the cases those deleted pictures can be recovered using an appropriate recovery tool. But bear in mind once the deleted files get overwritten by new files then data recovery becomes extremely unfeasible.

Whenever you take a photo, digital camera stores the picture as separate files in flash memory card. These memory cards are just like hard drives that act as a storage to hold pictures. When pictures are deleted from camera, what camera does is, first it locates the picture files on memory card and mark them as deleted and also marks the space they take as useable. In most of the cases, camera does not delete the picture file body but they just leave them as is, which make data recover deleted files sd card possible.

In order to proceed with the recovery process, camera should be connected to the computer. If camera cannot appear as a drive letter in ‘My Computer’, then an external USB card reader is required. It is mandatory that the memory card should be recognized by the system for data recovery software to access data on the memory card.

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery can recover data from all camera flash memory cards including Compact Flash Card (CF), Smart Media Card, Secure Digital Card (SD), Multi-Media Card (MMC), XD Picture Card (XD), Micro Drive, Sony Memory Stick (Duo, Pro), as well as removable storage including Zip disk, USB drives and Hard drives.

This software has got new attractive features. They are:

Recovered data can be saved on to a CD/DVD
Ability to preview files before recovery
Recovers data in compressed form i.e., in zip format. In order to unzip, software like WinZip or similar product should be installed.

It’s always recommended to try the demo version which will give you first hand experience to try and test before purchasing full version of the software.

Recover deleted emails just like that!

farheen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:40:57 +0000

PST is an Outlook database that stores all the offline copies of your email messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, journal entries, notes, RSS feeds, settings, E-mail accounts, message rules, junk e-mail lists and signatures. When the items are recorded in the database there is an index that points to each item. When you delete an email or any other item in the outlook, it doesn’t actually delete the items; it just deletes the items listings from the index. The email is still in the PST file but not accessible because Outlook has no idea where it is without the pointer in the index.

When you delete an email in Outlook it really isn’t deleted; it’s only marked for deletion. It’s only until you compact your PST file that your email is permanently erased, and the empty space is reclaimed. Once the PST has 20% empty space, Outlook begins compacting the PST automatically. If the Deleted Items folder contains lot of messages, Outlook may begin compacting the PST immediately and the items will be deleted forever within a few minutes.

PST files are stored on your hard drive because your hard drive is constantly overwriting files to make space for new information you put into it. If your hard drive is full and there is not much space or memory available it is highly probable that the email has already been overwritten and deleted permanently. Thus it is very important to act instantly to recover those accidentally deleted emails. To recover deleted emails from outlook PST the sooner you will act the better will be the results.

To recover deleted emails you need a specific email recovery program that will scan your system for deleted emails and recover them all. The best bit of using email recovery software is you can preview the deleted files and emails before recovering them. With email recovery software you can get your deleted emails back. Disk Doctors Outlook mail recovery locates the database file (PST) that controls all of these functions, restores it to original condition and quickly puts your lost/deleted messages back.

The obstacles of Mac file recovery

Admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:56:26 +0000

Apple Mac data recovery is simple… provided you can get past three little obstacles known as disk formatting, disk verification, and disk zeroing. Disk formatting on Mac computers is just like that on Windows based PCs. The operating system places on the recordable media a file structure that serves as a grid for the OS to navigate the hard disk with and to plot the placement of files. If all that was required to recover deleted Mac files was to read past the formatting and scan for file extension data Mac recovery would be a snap. But… Mac file recovery entails more.

Getting through Mac disk verification to recover files

Admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:52:34 +0000

The next obstacle to recover Mac files is disk verification. When Mac computer hard drives are set up the entire drive is scanned for errors. If any segments show non written data then basically an error message s presented and access to the rive is denied. This creates an interesting dilemma for if the your objective is to recover Mac files stashed away on the drive that have become damaged or corrupted, and disk verification blocks access to the area. How then can you get to the files?

This brings us to a digression to the solution stage of our article. In order to bypass the errors and subsequent blockage caused by disk verification we need a powerful Mac data recovery tool. We need Mac recovery software designed to either repair the damaged block as identified by disk verification or to leapfrog that process and reach the missing files. The recommended software for this purpose is Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software.

The last hurdle in recovering files from Macs

Admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:47:38 +0000

The final obstacle in the way of an effective procedure to recover Mac files is Disk Zeroing. Disk zeroing is a further stage of hard drive formatting the deeply defines the inner file structure of Mac computer hard drives. Ever wonder why Mac computers don’t crash? …Disk zeroing. When one needs to find lost Mac files the process can be either almost impossible or basically easy. The choice of difficulty is totally dependent on which tool you attempt to use for Mac recovery. If you try to recover Mac data with a simple Linux based tool you will most likely fail as while it can read files in general on a Mac hard drive, it will not be ably to read a corrupted block hidden behind a disk verification error or damaged disk zeroing. You need the right tool for the job and that is only Disk Doctors Mac data recovery software. The instructions replete with the program will assist you in first determining the nature and the severity of your issue. Then, you will be guided as to whether to download the recovery program to the computer missing the files or to a separate ‘technician” PC. Once downloaded you need only follow the simple step-by-step instructions in the wizard type interface.