Apple Mac Recovery

Apple Macintosh Desktops and Laptops both contain hard drives however, they have been given their own page due to using differing operating systems and the HFS/HFS+ file system. This means they encounter their own unique errors

The HFS/HFS+ File systems store data in different ways to the FAT and NTFS file systems used by other operating systems. This requires at a logical level a totally different approach and methodology when it comes to recovery.

For generic hard drive faults of a logical, electrical or mechanical nature please see our Desktop or Laptop hard drive pages.

 Below is a list of typical errors a Mac system may display:

- Bad File Names
- Drive not mounting
- Drive not installed
- Incorrect HFS volume 
- Disk not initialized 
- Disk error  
- Drive offline
- File system error
- Volume not recognised
- File vault issues

HFS/HFS+ file systems are also commonly used  in RAID arrays especially  for storing high quality photos. 

Please see our RAID page for types of array and faults that may affect them.