Free Data Recovery On OSX??

[magebomb]

Is anything avaliable? I'm a windows [eep] tech, trying to help a friend out who formatted her macbook without verifying her backups...and...well...


Are there any free osx data recovery softwares? Any data recovery livecds?

Thanks in advance!

 

[bobw]

Nothing free, but one of these I believe ahs a demo;

Data Rescue

Data Recovery

If the disk was formatted and a new system installed, there may be nothing to recover.

 

[kingslyj]

If it was a complete format with an overwrite over the entire hard disk you are out of luck but otherwise take a look at this. it ignores the filesystem and looks for files on the disk itself.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Probably a good idea to create a copy of the harddisk itself on another machine and work on the copy if the data is really valuable.

The more you use the disk.. the more data you lose permanently.