Stellar Toolbox suite of twelve disk utilities - Macdirectory.com

By: Ric Getter, Senior Editor

Stellar, a company that has been building PC and Linux utilities since 1993, jumped onboard the Mac OS this year with its Stellar Toolbox suite of twelve disk utilities. The $99 application suite offers maintenance tools, secure deletion, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, diagnostics, repartitioning and secure deletion. A separate product, Data Recovery, provides intelligent (file-format-aware) recovery tools as well as an available in-house data recovery service.

Sunil Chandna, Stellar CEO told us, ""Stellar Drive ToolBox offers immense power to users to work safely and efficiently. Toolbox is very easy to use and remains effective in resolving so many everyday problems and save hundreds of dollars spent in technical support."

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Disk Image Gets Corrupted? Recover Data in Mac

The disk image is a file that contains all of the contents and the structure of your storage device. Creating disk image is the most convenient method of backing up your precious data stored on the hard drive. There are several different file formats used to create the image of hard drive in Mac and .DMG is the most popular among them.

A .DMG (short for Disk Image) file allows you to have safe password protection and file compression and thus serves both file distribution and security functions. When you open the .DMG file, it is mounted as a drive in Finder.

You can easily create .DMG files using tools that are included in Mac OS such as Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3. You can also manage the .DMG files through command line using hdiutil tool. Although, creating disk image is the best option to prevent data loss
but sometimes when you try to mount the disk image for accessing data from it, you might encounter the following error message:"The disk image you are opening may be damaged and could damage your system.

Are you sure you want to open this disk image?"

Mac OS X detects the damaged disk image before mounting it as the damaged image could results into the data loss. In such situations, you can not restore your data from the .DMG file and thus you need to go for Mac Data Recovery to fix the problem.

Mac Data Recovery is the process of scanning your hard drive for extracting the missing, lost or inaccessible data from it. It is potential in most of the data loss situations and helps you to save you business critical and personal data.

You can perform Mac Data Recovery in an easy, safe, quick and automated way using powerful and advanced Mac Recovery software Mac Recovery software is capable of fixing most of the logical Mac data loss situations.

How to Successful Mac Data Recovery

When you lost your critical business or personal files could be the worst situation for a general or professional computer user. If the lost data is business critical, the data loss may possibly put you out of the business. Although, the data loss is never a welcoming situation but there is a good new for you.

The lost files do not actually leave the hard drive and remain physically intact. It most of the situations, lost files can be recovered easily using proper Mac Data Recovery methods. To get the exact solution for your data loss case, you need to identify the cause of the problem. The Data Recovery Mac solutions are totally dependent upon to type and reason of data loss.

According to a study, conducted by a reputed Data Recovery magazine, more than 50% of the data loss situations occur due to hardware failure. Hardware failure is the most critical data loss situation that can take place due to head crash, motor stop, logic board burning and natural disaster like factors. To resolve the physical data loss situations, you are highly recommended to go for Mac Data Recovery services.

A single attempt of solving the problem on your own can make your significant data irretrievable. Data Recovery service is the personalized and sophisticated help delivered by highly qualified and experienced Data Recovery specialists.

It is performed in safe and proscribed surroundings of Clean Rooms using advanced tools and techniques. On the other hand, if hardware components of your computer system are intact but you can not access data, the problem could be due to logical failure.

It is possible that the file system of your computer is corrupted or you have accidentally formatted the hard drive or your system refuses to boot.

In all such logical data loss cases, you can get your data back easily using powerful and highly developed Mac Data Recovery software. These are commanding third party tools that can scan your hard drive systematically and extract all of the lost data from it.

Create Image of Your Mac Drive and Save Data

Create image option is a well know safety for your hard drive to save your data from any lost or deletion. The usefulness of creating an image is to save your hard drive or data partition in case of a catastrophic hardware failure

When you scan a bad sector affected Mac hard drive using Mac Data Recovery software, it takes long time to complete. To overcome this problem, use Create Image option of Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery.

If your hard drive fails you will lost your precious data or pictures,video,images,documents etc.
Stellar Mac Data Recovery allows you to easily create the image of your hard drive, that has bad sectors, and save it to another hard drive. Afterwards you can scan the image as a logical
volume and can smoothly recover data from it.

This Mac Data Recovery is fully automated tool and thus does not require much user interaction to end up at perfect Mac Recovery. You can use Mac Data Recovery tool to create image of HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system based Mac hard drives.

This comprehensive Mac Recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.5 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther.

iMac G5 Does Not Boot Up and Data Loss Occurs

Apple offers a wide range of desktops and laptops to fulfill your personal as well as business requirements. Among all desktop series, iMac is the most popular and widely used one. It has a bunch of features and stylish look. This computer is designed for both home and office users.

iMac has four major modes, such as iMac (Intel-based), iMac G3, iMac G4, and iMac G5. However, in some situations, iMac G5 may crash and make your precious data inaccessible. At this point, you need to opt for Mac data recovery solutions to retrieve your inaccessible data.

iMac G5 employs PowerPC process architecture. Other system specifications of iMac G5 include V .92 modem, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port, and video-out port. However, under some situations, iMac G5 might stop responding at startup and cannot boot up. This problem usually occurs due to issues with operating system and put you in need of Mac recovery solutions. The problem may also occur due to hard drive or external hard drive issues.

Find out cause of this problem-

To check out whether the problem is caused by external hard drive, you are required to first disconnect all Ethernet, USB, and FireWire devices. Then reconnect all devices one bye on to your iMac and reboot the system. If you face the same problem after connecting a specific device, then it has to be replaced. The problem can be due to faulty cable as well.

Corruption to system software can also lead to this problem. At this point, boot your system using Mac OS X installation disk. If your computer starts properly, then the problem is caused by corrupt operating system and fresh installation of Mac OS X is required.

If your system is still unbootable and hard drive is invisible, the disk might be damaged. In such situations, you can try repairing the hard drive using Disk Utility to perform data recovery Mac.

If none of the above methods work, then you will have to replace the hard drive. But in this case, Mac recovery is required to extract data from damaged disk.

You can easily perform file recovery Mac using Mac file recovery software. Such Apple OS X recovery applications are designed to recover Mac data in all data loss situations. The HFS+ recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use.

Stellar Mac Data Recovery with Bootable DVD

When your Mac does not boot up due to any of the following situations?

MBR Corruption
Root file system corruption
Boot volume header corruption
Boot loader corruption
Operating system corruption

In this case, you can use boot DVD of Stellar Mac Data Recovery software to directly boot your system from it and retrieve your important data.

It will let you get into your system, scan the hard drive and retrieve lost data from it. With Phoenix Boot DVD, you can simply boot your system by following these simple steps:

Insert Stellar Mac boot DVD in DVD drive and restart your computer.

Press C key to boot your system from DVD.

The screen of the software will appear. Click ‘I Agree’ button and you will get into Recovery Options screen of the software so simple. After booting your system from DVD, follow on screen instructions of software to scan the drive and recover mac data.

To save your recovered data in this case, you need to have an external hard drive or USB drive attached to your system.

How to retrieve files deleted from Trash?

While working on the Mac system, we create many copies of a single file and this eventually kills the system space. In order to organize and part of a system maintenance operation, many times we delete files without even verifying them. All these files reside in the 'Trash' after being deleted from their respective locations and we can restore the files from Trash, if we want to do so.

However, for permanent deletion of files, we need to empty the 'Trash'. After emptying the 'Trash', there is no option with Mac to restore the data back. If after emptying 'Trash', we realize that the files, which we emptied from the 'Trash' were the only copies and extremely important, then we need to look for any powerful Mac data recovery utility to recover the files back.

Whatever functionality your system may have, whatever be the cost associated with the computer, you are using, it is the data stored in it that holds the center stage. Therefore, measures are suggested to safe-guard valuable data against any instance of data loss or inaccessibility. Along with many unexpected sudden incidents, loss of data can happen by your own mistakes like that of emptying the 'Trash' without verifying the deleted files.

However, in any instance of data loss in Mac, you can always have a chance of recovering your seemingly lost data with the help of any Mac recovery software until the data is being overwritten by some other data. The deleted, formatted or lost piece of data lies in the media, being unaltered by the Mac OS until you overwrite the same with any other data. Hence, if you can take care of this fact and prevent the lost data from being overwritten by not working on the volume/drive from which you want to recover the data, it can be definitely recovered back.

These data recovery Mac utilities are extremely strategic in their approach of recovery operation and scan each & every area of your storage media to locate the deleted data. Moreover these software are 100% risk-free in nature and you need not have to worry a little for any further damage.

Stellar Mac Data Recovery is a highly reliable Mac recovery software to bring back any of your lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible files/folders from the mac OS X based media. The software is compatible with all recent versions of Mac operating system and with easy-to-use functionalities, can be operated by any class of user(From experts to novice).

Time Machine Backup Fails to Restore on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Like all other computer operating systems, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard also include a data backup utility, known as Time Machine. It facilitates you to backup selected files and restore them whenever required. It enables you to schedule the backup to automate the backup process.

You can backup data to an external Time Machine drive to ensure absolute safety of your significant data. The backup helps you prevent needs of Mac data recovery solutions.

The Time Machine utility is not compatible to the Windows formatted hard drive, external AirPort disk, iDisk, and any mapped network disk that uses a file sharing mechanism other than AFP (Apple File Protocol). Due to the same, Snow Leopard may not recognize these backup disks and restoration process fails.

When you attempt to perform Mac recovery using the Time Machine backup, it throws ‘109’ error during the process and Mac file recovery process fails.
Root of the problem

This behavior of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system occurs when you backup data to an external hard drive or a network drive that is connected to the AirPort Extreme, which are not compatible to Time Machine of Snow Leopard. Although, Airport Extreme might seem to work with the Time Machine, however it is not supported.

The Time Machine works only if the network server uses AFP file sharing mechanism and both the networked and root system must have Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system installed.

Resolution

You can sort out this behavior by replacing AirPort Extreme disk with Time Capsule. In such situations, the below workarounds may also enable AirPort disk to function-

Rename Time Machine disk and AirPort computer to small and un-complex name.

Uncheck option related to backup data at low battery power in the laptops.

Make non-network location for adding the Time Machine device interface to it.

In case you lose your significant data and the Time Machine backup fails to restore, data recovery Mac becomes need of hour. You can recover Mac files using advanced file recovery Mac applications.

Mac recovery software enables you to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and recover Mac data in all data loss situations. The Apple OS X recovery software come equipped with simple graphical user interface to ensure easy Mac data recovery.

Stellar Mac Data Recovery is the most efficient Mac recovery utility to recover Mac files from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes.