It’s the stuff of digital nightmares: you boot up your computer and the drive’s corrupt, or you plug in an external drive — or even USB drive — and it doesn’t appear on the desktop at all, or shows up without the files and data you need. Sure you can restart and hope, but a smarter strategy is to try some disk recovery software.
You can use Disk Utility that’s included with Mac OS X but it’s not going to help you recover the lost data, just fix any easy formatting hiccups on the media, commonly producing a functional but blank drive. Yikes.
Enter the awkwardly named Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery Software application. A quick download, it does a good job of scanning broken or corrupt drives and making recovery of the information thereon a breeze…