Askdavetaylor - Recovery of data from an unmounted Mac drive

Ask DaveTaylor: Recovered valuable data from an unmounted 32GB USB

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Dave’s Review of Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery 5.0

• Stellar Phoenix happily offers SPMDR5.0 key to Dave for an unbiased product review.

• Dave agrees and receives the key. Installation is made and now Dave is ready to test the efficiency of the software.

• To do so, Dave decided to unmount one of his drive with the help of disk utility.

How to unmount a drive on Mac?• Connect the USB, external drive, whatever. • Open Disk Utility, locate and select the connected media

and hit the unmount button located in the top menu of disk utility.

Launched Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 5.0• The large blue button tells exactly what to do. • Time to hit the life-saving blue-button

Time to select an option from the list of four.• For an unmounted drive and its recovery, Drive

Recovery seems to be the perfect option to select. • Curious to know what next step brings in.

Whats up with the ‘No Name’ drive?

• My drive has a name, but wait, its currently unmounted on my Mac and being displayed as ‘No Name’.

• Drive selected for scan and recovery of inaccessible data.

Unmounted drive going through rigorous scanThe process completes and time to jump to next step. Moving one step closer to the recovery.

Scan finishes and files from unmounted drive are previewed• Double-clicking each file opens to original.• This is truly a life saving-application.

The recovered files are previewed and finally saved on Mac hard drive.

Sources

• AskDaveTaylor.com• http://www.askdavetaylor.com/

review_stellar_phoenix_mac_data_recovery_software.html

• Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 5.0• http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-

recovery.htm