Data recovery typically implies that data is lost by deletion, encryption or hardware error.
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What do I need to read/recover data from the hard drive of an Apple II CX?
My father bought an Apple Macintosh II CX in 1990 and it survived until 2010, when the main harddrive broke down and despite trying multiple times, booting from floppy disks failed for an unknown ...
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iCloud sync keeps deleting my information!
Ever since I started syncing my Contacts and Calendars on my Mac with iCloud, I've noticed that stuff sporadically disappears.
I've had to re-add an event to my Calendar 3 times now, and many of my ...
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iPhoto Lost Faces
I just noticed that my iPhoto lost all of the "Faces" data (reason unknown). It must have happened fairly recently. I sync the entire library with my iPad, and the faces are still on the iPad. And ...
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Recovering data off of a dead hard drive
My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk ...
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I repartitioned my harddrive while installing Windows 8 and lost my OS X installation, can I get it back?
I tried to install Windows 8 on my MacBook using Boot Camp. Because the normal installer did not recognize the partition that was made by Boot Camp, I opened up the command promt and ran DISKPART. I ...
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Missing Time Machine Files caused by FSEvents Failure?
I recently did a clean install/upgrade to Mac OS 10.8.2. I did a final update of my ongoing Time Machine Backup and verified Disk Integrity. After reinstalling and restoring my files, I have learned ...
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What's a good way to wipe a hard drive for resale?
I'm selling my MacBook and would like to wipe the hard drive in such a way that the current data can't be easily recovered after I reinstall OS X.
Can you recommend a free tool to help me do this?
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Recover Folder from xcode project
I feel sick...
I just accidently deleted the www folder of my phonegap app in xcode 4.2. It's not in finder or trash. From what I read, its actually deleted. I have tested on my ipad.
How can I ...
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Hard drive defect? Help me recover my music!
I've an old iPod Classic with 80 GB of Storage, suddenly it stopped showing any music. I can still access the files on it (with Windows Explorer). Copying all files is possible but it stops at a ...
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How do you see if TRIM is active from the command line?
I just created a bootable OS X recovery USB drive based on the OS X Recovery USB stick. I enabled trim on this USB drive when it boots by extracting and converting the contained BaseImage.dmg, ...
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Data recovery on Lion with a disk that disk utilities cannot mount?
I ran iDefrag last night because my MBP was running sooooo slow. I barely ever use it and it has 300 GB of free space. I used to use OnyX to optimise the disks on Snow Leopard but I didn't see that ...
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Exact clone of HD
I managed to broke something on my iMac's internal HD. I have now done a successful restore using DiskDrill, but just in case I want to make an exact copy of the internal HD. Not just some partition, ...
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How to recover accidentally deleted data?
My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted.
Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found ...
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How to recover deleted files from OS 10.5.8?
I'm not very experienced with Macs, so please pardon my mistakes. I'm assisting a coworker with a client of ours who recently let go of one of their employees, and in the resulting meeting the person ...
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How to recover deleted data from erased hard drive?
So last night my wifes laptop died big time. I could only boot up in safe mode and clearing pram / smc wasn't helping so I decided to wipe the hard drive and install Mountain Lion. I booted it in safe ...
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Restore partition from merged partition
I accidently merged my BOOTCAMP and Mac OSX Partition via diskutil.
Is there any way to recover my data from the Bootcamp partition?
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How to restores files lost from application during upgrade of app
I had a lot of important files on my iPhone in an app called Documents Mobile Office.
During upgrade of the application, the upgrade failed & the application does not reload. Hence I can't access ...
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My Launchpad organization was reset with Mountain Lion. How can I recover it?
I had neatly sorted the applications in Launchpad when I was running Lion. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, none of my custom folders are there any more, and it seems Launchpad is back to the ...
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iMovie which was created & stored on my iPhone 4S is nowhere to be found on phone or iCloud
The problem: The iMovie that our son spent dozens of hours making and editing for his final 7th grade project- due June 4th is now missing from his iPhone!
And unfortunately, a trip to the Genius ...
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Mac Air Flash Drive Retrieval
If my Mac Air has been water damaged, can I still retrieve the data from the flash drives even though the machine will not start at all?
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How can I recover files in an app bundle that were lost after an OS update?
I saved a file in an app's application content (right clicked the application file, and then clicked Show Package Contents) for security issues. However, during the upgrade to OS X Lion, I completely ...
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Reinstalling Lion on a Wiped Disk
I have MacBook that was running Lion.
On a journey into finding the perfect operating system for me, I installed Arch Linux. Whilst doing this I wiped the disk (/dev/sda1) and created some Linux ...
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Accesing files with Mac not booting
Is it possible, say with Lion recovery partition or any other way, to access individual files on the hard drive to copy them before reformatting it to do a clean install?
It is not possible to boot ...
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Failing hard drive – Will it affect the integrity of my data?
I have a failing hard drive on my current MacBook Pro (it is having a symptom that I previously had on a failing hard drive on a MacBook – clicking drive noises).
I'm backing up my hard drive quite ...
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Best way to copy all files, ignoring errors?
I have a partially corrupted HD that can not be repaired by Disk Utility, but which can be mounted read-only making the data on it accessible.
I am trying to copy all the recoverable contents onto a ...
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Will initiating recovery mode on an iPhone permanently disable it until it is recovered?
I'm trying to solve an issue I'm having, and I thought that placing the phone in recovery mode temporarily might resolve the problem. I'm afraid to try this though, since the phone contains valuable ...
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Will iTunes match download all my music to a new hard drive?
I've been thinking about weather to use iTunes match, but not for syncing to all devices as I'm happy with what I have on my iPhone and have iPod with all songs on.
What it would be useful for is to ...
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Do you have a backup policy that covers the Worst Case Scenario?
I've a lot of photos and videos of my children. I feel that losing those pictures would be a real pain for me and my family.
In the past I use to make, from time to time, a DVD with all my digital ...
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Dropped MacBook, lots of disk io errors. How to fix?
My 2011 MacBook just slid off the table and hit the floor face down opened. There was a message saying to reset and I did. After that it wouldn't load OS X Lion; it stays at the gray screen forever. ...
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How can I recover files from a failing hard drive?
I am in the process of trying to recover files from a failed MacBook hard drive. While I've already replaced the drive in the machine itself and installed a fresh copy of OS X, I have the old drive in ...
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How to recover previously saved text file after an overwrite and a reboot?
I was programming in python and I had two text editors open to the same file, and right before I shut down my computer I saved in the wrong one and overwrote the version I wanted to keep. How can I ...
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Mac OSX hard disk gives invalid PEOF - how do I back up data?
Yesterday my macbook pro (running 10.6.8) refused to reboot, and after booting it using the install disk and running disk utility I got Invalid catalog PEOF. The volume could not be verified ...
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How to restore iTunes library from a backup
My PC recently died, and I'm trying to transfer my iTunes library to my Mac. According to http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive, the iTunes ...
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Restoring mail from backup after hard disk died
The hard disk on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.5.8) died, and after getting it replaced I have been trying to restore my files from backup. The backup I have is just a copy of my user directory. I copied the ...
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Dealing with a dying hard drive
I have a MacBook Pro with a dying hard drive. It was working poorly for the last month or so and the last 4 times I turned it on it booted correctly once, issued a boot sector not found twice and a ...
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Recovering from Laptop HDD crash
My Windows 7 Laptop HDD crashed. I bought a new HDD and installed Windows on it. I also installed iTunes.
I'm patting myself on the back for setting up full backups of my laptop to an external HDD. I ...
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Best resources on data recovery from corrupted OS X HFS+ partitions
My Macbook Pro won't boot from it's hard disc. If I boot it from CD, the drive will only mount sometimes. Where should I go to get hints and tips on data recovery? What are the best tools that should ...
