The Good: A competent piece of data recovery software for Mac, Disk Doctor comes with a special feature known as the Journalized Volume feature. With this, past scans of storage spaces are saved making it easy for the user to avoid taking the time to rescan the same volume later on in the future.
The Bad: Disk Doctors stands for quality. But this quality comes at a price.
The Verdict: The software does a decent job even though coming in at a very premium price. Users familiar with the Disk Doctors brand know that the strong reputation stands for value, but also for premium prices.
The software has a user interface that can be easily mastered and understood by all categories of individuals. The data recovery software for Mac can read data directly from a disk even when the disk isn’t at optimum condition. This means that data can be recovered even when folders and files are deleted, when partition map or catalog file has been corrupted or when the repair and verification of the disk has failed. With this application, it is possible to recover lost files on a Mac using another. This is done by installing the software on a good Mac and connecting both of them through Firewire.
While using this software, installation is easy and straightforward as can be found with similar software. After running the program, choosing a drive and viewing files is intuitive and simple. All you have to do is to choose a physical drive, choose the recovery volume and initiate the scan or search. At the end of the search, files found can be previewed or saved.
While using this software, it is important to install it and save recovered files to a volume separate from the one being searched. This is to avoid permanent destruction of the drive. On corrupted drives, the software works on read only mode so it doesn’t attempt to modify or repair corrupt files. Its only function is to read and recover lost files. The journalized searching removes the need to go through the search process more than once.
To determine if this software will work for you, download the demo version and do a search and preview to see if it is possible to recover the files, folders, volume, drive and the data you are looking for. Although this Mac data recovery software is priced at a premium, it allows individuals to install it across different devices instead of purchasing a different product for each device.