Recover Lost Pictures with the Mac Disk Recovery Tool

In Mac disk, the file system used to store files is HFS+ or HFS, and the minimum unit for data storage in Mac is block which is not like cluster defined in Windows operating system, so there are some differences in data storage styles. If data in Mac disk are lost, it is difficult for us to recover lost data. In Windows operating system, when facing data losses, we can download a lot of data recovery tools to recover lost data, but theses data recovery tools are unable to recover lost data from Mac. Therefore, we have to use special Mac disk recovery tool. But when we search “recovery tool”, most shared recovery tools on the internet are only suitable for Windows operating system but few recovery tools can be used to recover lost data in Mac disk and we have to pay before using them. Since data recovery technology starts late, the recovery ability of most Mac disk recovery tools are not good. However, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, released by MiniTool Solution Ltd., is earmarked for Mac disk recovery. Besides, for the sake of the majority of consumers’ needs, this Mac disk recovery tool also provides free edition and it is professional Mac disk recovery tool worth owning by Mac users.

The above picture is the main window of the Mac disk recovery tool – MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. In the main interface, we can clearly see the four function modules of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery and different modules can be used to recover lost data in different situations. Then we’ll demonstrate how to recover lost pictures with the function module “Digital Media Recovery“.

Firstly, we can visit http://www.mac-data-recover.com/ to download MiniTool Mac Data Recovery for free and then install it. After that, run it and we can see the above main interface. Then click “Digital Media Recovery” to recover lost pictures.

After entering the function module, select the partition where the lost pictures are and then click “Full Scan“. This Mac disk recovery tool will automatically scan the lost media files. In order to find lost media files as much as possible, we should wait patiently. After the scan is finished, the following picture is shown.

In the display area of this Mac disk recovery tool, we can preview the lost pictures. Select the pictures that will be recovered and click “Save Files” to store files. When storing them, we’d better not store the data in the original partition, to prevent data from being overwritten and avoid influences on recovery effect in the recovery process.

How to Partition Hard Drive

The article is intended to describe the procedure of partitioning hard drive on a Windows 7 computer. The method explained here is fairly simple, reliable, and self-performable. It is still recommended that users follow and implement the instructions accurately. Doing so will save them from running into problems and eventually contacting Microsoft technical help to fix them.

Do you want to partition your Windows 7 hard drive? Do you need help doing so? If yes, then the article is for you. Windows 7 is truly an advanced operating system as it offers so many features and utilities that never existed in the previous versions. Disk partitioning is one among those features that allows users to resize, create, or delete hard drive partitions. The below mentioned guide will help you do the desired task on your own. This essentially means that you don’t need to call up Microsoft tech support for help.

Click on the Start menu and navigate to the option Computer. Right click on Computer and select Manage from the dropdown menu. This will open up the Computer Management window. Scroll down to the option Storage, click on it and then click on Disk Management.

This will show you all the drives listed currently in your computer. Point your mouse to the drive that you want to partition, right click on it and choose Shrink Volume from the dropdown list of options.

This will open up a dialog box showing total size before shrink and available space etc. Type the desired amount that needs to be shrunk in the box next to Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB.

When done, click on the Shrink button. The shrinking process can take some time depending on the shrink amount and the disk size. Be patient until the process completes. When completed, you will be shown Unallocated space in a dialog box. This is the size of shrunk volume. Right click on Unallocated space and then select New Simple Volume from the dropdown menu.

This will open up the New Simple Volume Wizard window. If you don’t want to format the newly create volume, you can choose the first option saying Do not format this volume. If you want to format, click on Format this volume with the following settings. Choose NTFS from the File System dropdown menu. Type a drive letter in the box next to Volume Label. Leave the Allocation unit size to Default. Click on the Next button and then the Finish button to close the window.

You can also download and run a free hard drive partitioning tool from a trusted website. Choose from an available range of free tools. Some of them include Ultimate Boot CD, System RescueCD, Ranish Partition Manager, and GParted Live among others.

How Much Do You Know about Data Recovery Service?

No one wants to lose their important data. That’s also true with enterprises too. Actually today a business is as much as secure as their data security. But sometimes bad things can happen. Things like natural disasters, power surges, human mistakes, network and digital storing errors, hardware or software misbehaviors, computer virus attacks and intrusions can cause data loss. Although you have solutions for avoiding almost all these issues most often we won’t be prepared to implement any of those until some thing already happened. Its human nature!

Data losses can come along with some serious drawbacks for your business. In worst case scenarios they can put you out of your business or can make you feel like you are in Stone Age. But there is always a solution and it is called ‘Data Recovery’. Professional data recovery services help you to recover your personal or business data after most of the information loss scenarios.

Today data recovery services are available for almost all kinds of data storing devices including. Databases: recovering information stored in databases like SQL, MySQL, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Access, Fox Pro, etc. Advanced recovery services can help you in restoring the data exactly to previous state even if it had highest encryptions. Business storing devices: recovering information from server drives of both Windows and Linux systems, data storage arrays, data archiving systems, SAN, NAS, etc. And the third one: Digital data storing devices: recovering data from personal computer drives, pen or flash drives, USB drives, other portable storing devices, DVDs, CDs, laptops, notebooks, tablets, iPhones, iPads, digital cameras, memory cards, mobile phones, and digital tapes.

But choosing just any information recovery service providers might not help you in successful recovery of your precious data. In fact in improper hands the data may became permanently lost. Most providers concentrate on recovering data from a handful of devices; probably on popular devices like USB drives, hard-disks, mobile phones, memory cards, etc. But for specific storing devices especially when they are used for storing your business data, then you should always opt for the best data recovery service provider you can get.

2012 – Pray for the World

Earthquake, Wildfire, Hurricane, the nature gave too much pain to the whole world in 2012. But we still believe that everything will be fine and the world will not end. Come to join MiniTool “Pray for the World” activity on 21^st, 2012, and all of you have the chance to win a license of MiniTool software and an iPhone5.

As long as you finish the tasks below during the period from Dec 21^st, 2012 at 00:21 to Dec 21^st, 2012 at 12:21, you can get a license (Partition Wizard Professional, Power Data Recovery Personal or Mac Data Recovery Personal) for free. You also have the chance to win an iPhone5, and check how to win an iPhone5: http://www.partitionwizard.com/minitool-merry-christmas.html.

 

How to Win:

1. Like MiniTool Facebook Page.(https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483)
2. Share MiniTool Facebook activity post.
3. Comment on the post about your wishes and blessings.

MiniTool Christmas Gifts Giveaway

Article source: http://partitionwizard.com/minitool-merry-christmas.html

 

Minitool is sending out Christmas gifts and the information below is the detailed activity I got from their official site.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Santa Claus MiniTool will bring you free gifts and don’t forget to check your stockings! Check the rules below and get the gifts!

Activity Rules

How to Participate

1. Like MiniTool Facebook Page. (https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483)
2. Share MiniTool Facebook activity post.
3. Comment on the post about which license you want and why you want it.

What to get

1. Lucky enough, participant will get a license of MiniTool software (Partition Wizard Professional, Power Data Recovery Personal or Mac Data Recovery Personal). But one person can only win one license.
2. All participants who finish the tasks will have the chance to win an iPhone5. We will choose 3 random participants to win the 3 iPhone5 after the activity ends.
3. Please stay tuned on MiniTool Facebook Page, there are more Big Surprises waiting for you during this activity, maybe on the so-called Doomsday, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day!

When to begin

Contest begins on Dec 17th, 2012 and ends on Jan 2nd, 2013. MiniTool reserves the right to exclude zombies, robots and fake accounts and reserves the right to report and delete any offensive comments. Any cheating in the process will disqualify the participants.

When & How to get

1. We will send out 20 licenses every week by randomly choosing 20 participants to be the winners. We will contact winners and send out the licenses via email at the end of every week.
2. 3 iPhone 5 will be ordered on http://www.apple.com in your country/region after the deadline of this activity, and reception time of the iPhone 5 might be variable in different countries/regions. We will contact the 3 random winners via email after this activity ends.

Security of the Partition Assistant

Every computer user will partition hard disk and perform partition management. As is well known, a brand new hard disk can not be used at once, because it does not have any storage competence. At this time, some users may ask how a brand new hard disk could get storage competence. Actually, the answer is very simple. I believe many experienced users know the answer is to partition and format hard disk at first, giving brand new hard disk storage competence and management competence. However, after partitioning hard disk, the vast majority of computer users, I believe, are unsatisfied with the current disk state, namely just having storage competence. As more and more data are stored on hard disk, users begin to care about hard disk performance, disk space use ratio, and data security gradually. As we all know, the most economical and effective method for promoting hard disk performance, disk space use ratio, and data security is to perform good partition management. At this time, many users who do not have a deep understanding of knowledge of computer or those users who are unwilling to waste a large amount of time on partition management hope to own a professional partition assistant. Nevertheless, if we ask professionals for help, we will spend plenty of money. I believe the vast majority of computer users are willing to adopt this method. Well then, is there a more economical partition assistant? The answer is of course yes.

Maybe, many users have asked professionals for help to get more reasonable partition mode. Well, do you want to free perform partition management by yourselves like a professional? If your answer is yes, selecting a powerful and professional partition magic is a good way for us to get good partition management. However, as partitions are being used and may store pretty important data when we perform partition management, we must pay much attention to software security and stability when selecting partition magic, avoiding serious consequences like the loss of important data. Considering data security, I suggest selecting MiniTool Partition Wizard, an excellent and professional partition assistant developed by the famous software development company – MiniTool Solution Ltd. to help you accomplish partition management.

After reading the above content, many users may be cautious about the functions and security of the partition assistant MiniTool Partition Wizard, so where are the powerful functions and security reflected? The answer can be seen from the following operations. After visiting the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to download this partition assistant, we install and run it to get the following interface:

This is the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard. Here, we can see this partition assistant has quite all-sided functions. After selecting any partition in partition list, we will see detailed partition management functions from the left “Operations” column. In addition, the options “Disk“, “Partition“, and “Dynamic Disk” show this partition assistant has pretty comprehensive partition management functions and dynamic disk management functions. Therefore, MiniTool Partition Wizard has quite powerful functions. Of course, we will introduce its security briefly by demonstrating how to move partition.

First, select the partition which needs moving in the main interface. Then, click “Move/Resize” functional button to enter its resizing interface, like the following interface shows:

In the above interface, the option marked with red line is the switch of the enhanced data protection mode. When the marquee is checked, this mode is started. With the help of this mode, we can avoid data loss caused by accidents, like power outage and hardware failure. Here, we can move partition by dragging partition handle or inputting exact value to change the position of the partition handle. Then, click “OK” to go back to the main interface:

In the main interface, we can preview the result. If the result is expected, we click “Apply” to perform all operations. Then, we are successful to move partition.

MiniTool Christmas Licenses & iPhone 5 Giveaway

Hey guys, I copied the information from MiniTool official site about the Christmas Licenses & iPhone 5 Giveaway activity. If you want a license of MiniTool software or if you want an iPhone 5 for free, then the information below can be helpful. Their official site: http://www.partitionwizard.com/minitool-merry-christmas.html

Activity Rules

How to Participate

1. Like MiniTool Facebook Page. (https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483)
2. Share MiniTool Facebook activity post.
3. Comment on the post about which license you want and why you want it.

What to get

1. Lucky enough, participant will get a license of MiniTool software (Partition Wizard Professional, Power Data Recovery Personal or Mac Data Recovery Personal). But one person can only win one license.
2. All participants who finish the tasks will have the chance to win an iPhone5. We will choose 3 random participants to win the 3 iPhone5 after the activity ends.
3. Please stay tuned on MiniTool Facebook Page, there are more Big Surprises waiting for you during this activity, maybe on the so-called Doomsday, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day!

When to begin

Contest begins on Dec 17th, 2012 and ends on Jan 2nd, 2013. MiniTool reserves the right to exclude zombies, robots and fake accounts and reserves the right to report and delete any offensive comments. Any cheating in the process will disqualify the participants.

When & How to get

1. We will send out 20 licenses every week by randomly choosing 20 participants to be the winners. We will contact winners and send out the licenses via email at the end of every week.
2. 3 iPhone 5 will be ordered on http://www.apple.com in your country/region after the deadline of this activity, and reception time of the iPhone 5 might be variable in different countries/regions. We will contact the 3 random winners via email after this activity ends.

MiniTool Christmas Gifts – Licenses & Iphone5

 

This Activity will start from Dec 17th, 2012 to Jan 2nd, 2013. More information: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483 

 

In the process of using Windows 7, it is hard to avoid this or that kind of problem related to partition management. Although Microsoft has improved the built-in disk management tool in Windows 7, for example, adding Extend Volume and Shrink Volume functions, it still can not meet users’ demands for partition management. For instance, the built-in disk management tool can not split partition on Windows 7.

The situation where partition space is too much is common on Windows 7, which will greatly decrease use ratio of disk space. But splitting partition can solve the problem easily. Since the built-in disk management tool can not split partition, it is not easy to finish the operations for common users.

If the partition is NTFS partition on Windows 7, users could firstly use the disk management tool to shrink partition and then create a new partition with the unallocated space, thereby splitting partition. This operation is a little complicated. Actually, professional partition magic is able to split NTFS partition easily on Windows. And MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good choice.

How to split NTFS partition on Windows 7?
MiniTool Partition Wizard is compatible with common Windows operating systems, for example Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. It also has simple operations and safe partition splitting function. Therefore, users can use it to split NTFS partition on Windows 7 trustingly. Main procedures are following.
1. Please visit the official website to download MiniTool Partition Wizard and then install it to the computer.
2. Please launch the partition magic and then select the partition that will be split in the main interface. Then click “Split Partition” function.
3. Resize the two new partitions.
4. Click “Apply” to finish all operations.

The above is the screenshot of the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard. Seen from “Operations” area, besides splitting partition, this partition magic is also able to format partition, delete partition, move/resize partition, extend partition, merge partitions, copy partition and so on. Therefore, users can use it to maintain better partition management.

Server Data Backup

For server, the most important part is undoubtedly data. As we all know server is generally used as network service side, and it offers us various kinds of software service, like webpage service, email service, entertainment service, and consultation service. We can say server is the heart of the whole network, and data is the heart of server. Thus it can be seen, what an important role data plays. However, unsafe network factors and server itself defects may cause server data to be lost. When server data are lost, the whole server will be in paralyzed, let alone bring users enjoyment. In order to avoid this situation, it is very necessary to back up server. But if we adopt the method Copy-Paste, it is so troublesome, so most of the time we back up server with software. When selecting server backup software, we should be quite cautious, because there is no App Store in Windows, and Microsoft is unable to monitor software quality. If users use inferior server backup software carelessly, it may make data irreparable, let alone back up server. Therefore, data security is the first factor we should consider in the process of software selection. At this time, the partition magic server MiniTool Partition Wizard which has the function of backing up data is suggested. This partition magic server will bring you much pleasure.

Before backing up server, we should know reasons for server backup. The most important reason is to prevent server data from being lost. And there are many reasons for server data loss. Next, let’s analyze these reasons in detail.
1. Hardware failure: hardware failure is a big reason for server data loss, because server runs unceasingly every day, bringing much pressure on server hardware. At the same time, server data will exchange continuously, which brings serious depletion to server hard disk. So, server disk damage is far more serious than PC.
2. Software fault: software fault is likely to result in server data loss. For example, some data management software or partition magic which may result in endless loop or has leak resulting from undemanding development may lead to server data loss. Besides, sudden break is also likely to cause server data to be lost.
3. The problem of operating system: operating system failure will lead to server data loss, too, like disk management mechanism failure and disk recognition failure. Actually, the biggest factor for server data loss is operating system leaks. Although leak itself brings little influence on server data, it can attract hacker to attack server, bringing serious server data loss. Of course, this factor should be sorted into personal factor.
4. Personal factors: we just said the main reason for server data loss is hacker attack, but personal mistaken operation is also a nonnegligible factor.
After knowing these reasons, do you think your server data are safe? To avoid serious consequence brought by server data loss, MiniTool Partition Wizard is an indispensable tool.

The partition magic server MiniTool Partition Wizard is undoubtedly an excellent server backup software. It provides users with 2 different modes to back up server, so we can select corresponding mode according to practical situation, which will promote working efficiency and work quality largely.

From its main interface, we can see these 2 modes, namely “Copy Partition Wizard” and “Copy Disk Wizard“. The first one is for single partition backup, and the second one is to back up the whole disk.

Windows 8 Built-in Disk Management Tool

In daily use of Windows 8, fine partition management is essential if users want to keep its superiority. Surely, the advantages of good partition management are more than that, also including facilitating data storage and management, improving use ratio of hard disk, promoting data storage security, etc, which can not be neglected. Despite those benefits, few users can experience them because most users can not find a good method for managing Windows 8 partition.

Speaking of Windows 8 partition management, most of the users perhaps firstly think of Windows 8 built-in disk management tool. But, having many flaws, the tool fails users in excellent Windows 8 partition management. Is there another way to manage Windows 8 partition? Actually, the Windows 8 partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizard can help users make it easily and perfectly.

Many users may raise the question why the Windows 8 partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizard is able to realize the operations that can not be achieved by Windows 8 built-in disk management tool. That is because MiniTool Partition Wizard, compared with Windows 8 built-in disk management tool, has more comprehensive functions. Their comparisons are following.

Partition Management Functions	MiniTool Partition Wizard	Windows 8 Built-in Disk Management Tool
Merge Partitions
Resize NTFS Partition without Damaging Data
Resize FAT Partition without Damaging Data
Create/Delete/Format/Activate Partition
Move Partition
Hide/Explore Partition
Change Cluster Size/File System without Influencing Data
Copy Partition
Support Dynamic Disk
Support GPT Disk

Seen from this, this Windows 8 partition manager has more practical utilities.

It has been mentioned that MiniTool Partition Wizard has many comprehensive functions. Some users may still have doubts about it. So we’ll run this Windows 8 partition manager and introduce its functions briefly, hoping to get rid of those doubts.

After launching MiniTool Partition Wizard under Windows 8, we’ll see its main interface, as follows.

Seeing from the top area marked with red box, we can know that MiniTool Partition Wizard has abilities to manage entire disk, partitions and dynamic disks. After selecting any partition, we can see its complete partition management functions from the left red box. If those functions are not enough to persuade you into using this Windows 8 partition manager, it also has many other unique features that are not possessed by other software of this kind, such as recovering lost partition and power-off protecting function. These reasons may be able to attract you.