What's HFS? Apple launched HFS or the Hierarchical File System as a fact of necessity to be worked with its newly developed 20MB hard disk for Macintosh operating systems. HFS replaced the old Macintosh File System (MFS), which was the original file system for the Macintosh operating system based computers. Though the HFS file system has got several advance features in terms of performance, sometimes, while accessing volumes based on HFS file system, the volume cannot be recognized by the operating system and hence, the data in that particular volume becomes completely inaccessible. In such a case, you need to look for Mac data recovery software to recover lost or inaccessible data. The reason behind the corruption of the file system can be anything ranging from the unexpected system shut-down to virus attack, application malfunction or operating system crash etc. In case of a possible file system corruption, you can use the 'Disk Utility' (The in-built utility in the Mac OS X) to check for the integrity of the disk and repair the damage. If 'Disk Utility' fails to resolve the issue, you can have another try with the 'fsck'(A command-line utility) to check the file system at the start-up and repair the damage. Note: If the hard drive of the troubled Mac system is totally inaccessible, then you can either attach the drive with another working Mac machine or run the utilities from the system disk. How to recover data from HFS partition? If both of the above repairing options fail, then you have to format the drive and reconstruct the file system. Under such a case, you have to restore your data from a valid back-up as with formatting, all your data from the drive will get erased. In case, you do not have a valid backup or failed to restore from the backup, run Mac recovery utility to recover the lost data back. Among many available Mac recovery applications in the market, uFlysoft Data Recovery Software for Mac is considered to be the most efficient Mac data recovery software to recover any of your lost, deleted, formatted, inaccessible data from the troubled Mac volume/drive irrespective of the cause. The software is pretty compatible with HFS, HFS+, HFS Wrapper, HFSX, FAT file system based volumes and with an interactive GUI, is very simple in use. Steps to recover data from HFS partition Once you choose uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac, all you need to do is to follow the steps below: 1. Install this free download data recovery software on your Mac. 2. Launch the program and choose the hard disk where your lost flies were stored before and start scanning. 3. After scanning finished, you can preview your lost files, you can choose which you want to get back and then click "Recover", you will find the lost files coming back to you again in a while. Tips If you are a Windows OS user and want to porcess "recover my photos" operation on your Computer, here we suggest you to have a try on uFlysoft Photo Recovery for Windows.
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