If you are very lucky your hard drive (or SSD) isn’t beyond repair and you will be able to fix the problem yourself and therefore get access to your files. If your drive is hav… See more

It’s become something of a cliché, but turning it off and on again, is often a good way to reset any gremlins in your system. So it’s often the first bit of advice you’ll hear. However w… See more

If you are using an old Mac running an OS older than Lion, then there will be no Recovery HD option. Lion has been around since 2011, so anything newer than that should hav… See more

If you have managed to start your machine from either Recovery, or an external drive, the volume you are trying to recover still may not show up. Data recovery software can still wo… See more