Data Recovery Overview
Data Recovery is a process of searching lost data from portions
of existing/previously existing file system or from raw sectors
and retrieving them with their original structure intact. The
most common data recovery process involves the following stages;
Analysis of the file system and assembling boot sector, partition
table and allocation structures of the system area.
Recover Data from Macintosh
File System
Quick
Recovery MAC Quick Recovery MAC is a do-it-yourself non-destructive
data recovery software. There are just three steps to
perform the complete operation. Analysis, Select &
Save. Analysis is the most important aspect of data recovery.
Quick Recovery's unique Guided File Excavation Technology
(GFETCh) helps in locating files and folders lost behind
overwritten partitions too.
Supported Macintosh Operating System
are
Apple Mac OS 9.x and higher
Recovers data from HFS and HFS+ file system, and is compatible with
Apple Mac OS X operating system as well as Apple Mac OS 9.x and
higher.
Features of Quick Recovery
MAC Software
Quick and automated analysis.
Unique Guided File Excavation Tecnology (GFETch).
Simple and well guided steps to recover data.
Unique multiple lingual support.
Provides partition recovery from deleted partition or formatted
logical volumes.
Provides Mac Data Recovery from missing or lost folders.
Recognizes and preserves long file names when restoring
files & folders.
Multi-Disk Drive Support - Performs recovery on all IDE,
EIDE and SCSI disk devices.
Simulated previously existed partitions.
Bad Sector management and recovery (BSMR) helps in optimized
recovery from damaged disks.
Recovery from damaged floppies, USB Drives, ZIP and MO.
All recovery cases possible that have been experienced by
Unistal have been incorporated.
Developed by experienced data recovery experts.
Well guided and well supported recovery options. Windows
explorer styled interface.
Has an interactive tree structure to view, select (tag)
and recover files and directories to a safe location.
Standard "Windows Explorer" - style interface.
Recovers Data even if, Mac
has displayed following messages:
Segment Loader Error
No Such volume
Bad file name
Read/Write requested for an off-line drive
Bad master directory block
Directory not found
Not an HFS Volume
Not a Macintosh disk
Bad master directory block
Volume header corruption
Catalog file's node corruption
Steps for Recovery
Verify that the primary disk has Quick Recovery installed
in it. Connect the crashed drive as a slave or secondary
in the computer.
Click on the Quick Recovery Icon from the desktop or from
Programs.
From the first menu verify that both the drives are listed.
Click on the Drive 1 (crashed disk).
Choose the recovery mode. It is preferred to select Quick
Mode for the first analysis. Click on Next. In case Quick
Mode doesn't show the required data, choose Advance Mode
or Raw Recovery.
Now you will be shown the list of partitions in the selected
drive. Select the partition that needs to be recovered.
If all the partitions are not listed then click on search
for more partitions. Only one partition can be selected
at a time. Click on Next.
The analysis will start for searching for lost directories
and linking directories. This process could take some time.
As soon as the search and analysis is done, the directory
list will be displayed. This display is like that of explorer.
Now the menu bar options will be active.
Select the folders by highlighting the folder (on the
right Menu) using mouse by single mouse click and shift
+ mouse click for multiple folders or files. You may also
use the standard keys (tab, arrows and enter) to do the
selection.
To save the selected files, right click on the required
folder or file and click on save. Alternatively choose Options
> Save. Now a menu will be shown where you may enter
the path to save the selected files. Refer to Save options
described in the next section.
Licensing Information
This Software is Licensed for
a Single User with Unlimited use for One Year.