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 data recovery page for types of array and faults that may affect them.