Data Rescue II

If you need to recover lost files on a Mac computer then you need Data Rescue II. It's a do-it-yourself data recovery software that enables anyone to recover files from a hard drive or unerase files that have been previously deleted. Data Rescue II is used by professional data recovery services, but it's suitable for computer novices too.

Data Rescue II screenshot

You don't need to be a computer expert to use Data Rescue II. The software has an easy to use Assistant mode that makes data recovery a simple point and click affair. Once you have told Data Rescue II where to look, it will scan your hard drive looking for files, and recover them ready for you to save to a new location.

Data Rescue II can be installed on your computer, or you can order a bootable emergency disc that's ready to run with no installation. That's what you'll need if your Mac won't start up, too.

You'll need an external, removable or network drive to save your recovered files to.

Use Data Rescue II if you have deleted files and emptied the Trash, if your hard drive won't mount, if the drive is corrupt and you can't read files from it, or even if it has been formatted. Data Rescue II can recover all types of files. It can even recover photos from digital camera media. It can recover music and video from your iPods. You can recover the whole drive, or just your most important files.

If your hard drive is beginning to fail then Data Rescue Clone lets you copy everything to a new drive before it fails altogether.