As even the most ignorant PC loyalist should now admit, MACs are more stable than PCs. They rarely crash, get fewer viruses, and lose data less often as a result.

But it still happens. And when it does, a MAC specific recovery program is needed to do the job.

MAC products require a different set of recovery tools than PCs do. But with the right product, you can recover entire hard drives, deleted files, and files lost from an iPad/iPod.

With any Mac recovery product, I look at 5 core factors:Device Support
Recovery Power, Extras, Ease of Use and Help/Support (FAQs, clear manuals, 24hr tech support).

If you’ve read many of my product reviews, you would have noticed I’m a big fan of Avanquest’s series of data recovery products called Stellar. Avanquest does a great job of recognizing the need for specialized recovery products, that do one thing very well, which is what many people need.

With Stellar Macintosh Recovery, Avanquest have once again done an excellent job of specializing a recovery tool. It’s effective, easy-to-use – and like all Avanquest products – backed up by excellent customer technical support.

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Key Benefits:

Recognizes hundreds of different Mac file extensions
Clear, easy-to-use interface
Extra features: Bootable recovery, disk repair, drive monitoring
Ability to preview files before recovery
Excellent 24-hour technical support
Free trial-scan to test effectiveness

Tests

I prepared two hard drives – all with different problems – and installed the Macintosh Data Recovery on another OS X based workhorse with an extra hard drive used for recovered data. The hard drives had he following problems:

Failed partition
Accidental trash empty – recover deleted files
Test #1: Attempt at Failed Partition Recovery

After plugging in, Macintosh Data Recovery immediately discovered the drive, and the manufacturer and size of the drive was displayed. I double clicked on it, and was given three choices: Scan for Logical Volumes, Raw Data Recovery and Create Image.

I tried Raw Data Recovery for recovering some PDFs, Macintosh Data Recovery went to work on the drive and began building a list of file types it could find on the hard drive. Within a short time it found my PDF files. Stellar Recovery passes the first challenge.

Test #2: Attempt at accidental trash empty recovery

I was confident a simple trash recovery wasn’t going to be a problem for Stellar Recovery, and I was right. I selected Scan for Logical Volume, and went ahead. function. When the process was complete, I was given a listing of the types of recoverable files. My deleted files were recovered.

To read more about Stellar MAC Recovery, as well as other data recovery tips and recommendations, visit my blog at http://www.datarecoverywhiz.com/mac_data_recovery