How to do Data Recovery for Mac using iBoysoft Data Recovery Software
Have you ever found yourself in a sticky spot where you realized you missed something from your hard drive or any removable disks?
Well, your answer might be “Yes” and that’s exactly why you are here. In fact, it’s quite common that people accidentally delete some work files by mistake or lost important data due to various reasons.
Fortunately, the deleted/lost data can be easily restored with professional Mac data recovery software as long as it’s not overwritten.
There is numerous recovery software easily available in the open market. Mac Data Recovery Software by iBoysoft is one of the quality ones, which certainly is worth trying.
Today, in this article, we’ll go through iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac and review it.
About iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac
iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is a comprehensive and reliable data recovery freeware, which is trusted by millions of customers and has successfully helped them get lost data back without any hassle.
It is also highly praised by users for its recovery efficiency, simple user-friendly features.
iBoysoft Data Recovery Features
Support mainstream storage devices. Once installed, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac scans for lost data and recover files from any storage media such as internal hard disks, SSDs, external hard drives, SD cards, memory cards, USB flash drives, CF cards – the software can recover data from all of them.
Support multiple file types. All your lost files, such as music, pictures, videos, documents, custom file formats and much more can be quickly and easily restored.
Supports various file systems. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac can accomplish file recovery from a wide range of file systems, including APFS, FAT32, exFAT, HFS+, HFSX.
Works in different data loss scenarios. There are countless ways to lose your data. Accidental deletion, mistaken formatting, virus attack, disk corruption, system crash, bad sectors…No matter what the reason is, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac can get lost files back. Using advanced algorithms, the software can reconstruct the corrupted file directory and find lost files. Even if your Mac computer won’t boot, the program can help restore your files.
Quick scan and Deep scan available. The software offers these two kinds of scan modes. The Quick scan is a fast and basic scan. Most deleted files and folders can be found using this scan mode.
While the Deep scan is a much slower and thorough scan, which will do a thorough search of your entire drive to find deleted or lost files.
In general, it will run the Quick scan by default. If you don’t find your deleted/lost files after the Quick scan, try to switch to the Deep scan.
Save sessions and load sessions. Normally, data recovery process will be a time-consuming task, especially recovering data from a large drive.
Now, what if you want to stop the process?
Do you have to spend the same amount of time again to restore entire data? Well, with iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac, you can save time by avoiding re-scanning.
The software is built with a powerful session management feature that allows you to save scan results of the complete or incomplete recovery process and resume recovery without scanning the drive again.
This tool will create and save a recovery session when you pause or exit the software, and then it enables you to perform your recovery later at a more convenient time by loading the session.
Pre-recovery preview. Available for both free and paid versions, this feature is very handy for you to peek at the content of deleted files, allowing you to make sure they are recoverable.
The software can preview in various popular formats, including documents, images, videos, audio files, etc.
Filtering and sorting options. This tool includes an ability to filter and sort scanning results by file names, dates, file types, and file sizes.
When using a hard drive, you may create, modify, save amounts of documents on it all the time.
Therefore, there are multiple copies of each document appearing in the scanning results. In this case, the filtering and sorting options are badly needed to quickly target the right contents among the scanning results.
Simple user interface. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac values your time by presenting all its features in an intuitive, user-friendly way. Any person, be it the average user or the IT professional, will be able to know exactly how to use the software to recover data. Within a few clicks, you can go over every last bit of data and find what you’re looking for.
Full compatibility. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is fully compatible with macOS Catalina 10.15, Mojave 10.14, High Sierra 10.13, Sierra 10.12 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion.
iBoysoft Data Recovery License and Price
iBoysoft Data Recovery comes with the free version, Home version, and Pro version.
The free version has the same capability as the Home version, but it is limited to a 1GB per user. At $69.95, the Home version, which I tested, provides unlimited recovery.
The Pro version additionally supports APFS data recovery and unbootable computer data recovery. It costs $99.95, which is more affordable than competitors.
The Testing Grounds
I tested iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac using two Macs: an early 2015 Mac Mini and a late 2018 MacBook Pro. Both systems run the same version of macOS Catalina.
The Mac Mini features a 500GB hard disk drive, whereas the MacBook Pro uses a 120GB SSD. Moreover, I used a 500GB Seagate external hard drive.
I tested the software against 2 typical and common scenarios:
- Recover an accidentally deleted file
- Recover data from a formatted hard drive
Scenarios 1: Undelete Files from the Mac Internal Hard Drive
If you need to recover data from the system drive, the most important thing you should think about is data overwriting. If you directly download and install data recovery software on your computer, this operation may write new data on your drive and write over your original data, making data irreparable. To avoid such an issue, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac comes with a portable mode, so that you can download it on your external drive and run it without installation.
In my testing, I deleted the same 20+ files on both machines. The deleted files contained six common file types (DOC, XLS, PDF, JPG, MP3, and MP4).
I fetched an external drive and downloaded iBoysoft Data Recovery on it. Plugged the external disk on my two Mac computers and open the .dmg file.
Once asked to drag iBoysoft Data Recovery to the Application folder, I double-clicked the iBoysoft Data Recovery icon to directly run it.
After launching the software, when I chose the system drive, it reminded me that I needed to temporarily disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) and showed me a detailed tutorial reference. Very intuitive!
Note: Disabling SIP is a must-have operation to let any recovery software access and scan your disk if you are using macOS High Sierra and higher.
Then I selected the system drive. I found the software is so smart and knows what I want. It automatically chose the Quick scan mode for deleted files.
The scanning process only lasted for 10 minutes on the hard disk and 5 minutes on the SSD. It detected all of my deleted files. I have never seen such a high success rate of data recovery.
Scenario 2: Recover Data from Formatted Drive
I used a Seagate external hard drive, approx. 500GB, 800+ files. I reformatted the disk and inserted it in my MacBook Pro.
I went with the Deep scan, which was much slower than the Quick scan but much more fruitful.
Less than 40 minutes in total, the utility identified thousands of lost and reconstructed files. I filtered the scanning results and located all the needed files.
After that, I clicked the Recover button, which prompted me to save files to a different destination folder. I selected my desktop and retrieved all my original documents.
Conclusion
I’m happy to report that iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac has retrieved all the files I intentionally deleted or cleaned by formatting.
Moreover, the software is also an excellent choice for data recovery from unreadable, unmountable, inaccessible internal and external hard drives.
What impresses me the most is that unlike other data recovery tools, you don’t need to scan the full hard drive to recover deleted or lost data.
During the scanning process, you are able to pause and resume at any time. This feature really saves you much of time.
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