

It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software. Apple File System is optimized for flash and solid-state drive storage, with a primary focus on encryption.

It aims to fix core problems of HFS+ (also called Mac OS Extended), APFS's predecessor on these operating systems. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.Posted by Tim to Mac Data Recovery Tips on July 11th, 2019 APFS file systemĪpple File System (APFS) is a file system for macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS, developed and deployed by Apple Inc. It is designed to recover files including video, documents and archives from Hard Discs and CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec is a companion program for TestDisk. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts.
