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Fix Volume Header Corruption Causing Mac OS X Data Loss

Posted On : Sep-16-2011 | seen (415) times | Article Word Count : 402 |

Volume header corruption takes place in Mac hard drive and leads to data loss situations. Lost data can be recovered back easily with the help of Stellar data recovery software.
Mac OS X provides the option to divide its hard drive into many partitions, which is known as volumes. Each Mac volume is formatted with the help of a file system that can be HFS+, HFS, HFSX or HFS Wrapper. The related information to Mac volume like its size, file system type, initiating sector address, etc get stored in the volume header. In any circumstances if the volume header becomes corrupted, then all the volume gets inaccessible that leads to severe data loss conditions. In the mean time you required to use data recovery solutions, in unavailability of recently updated backup.



However, in Mac OS X there is an integrated utility named as Disk Utility, to resolve errors and issues related to the hard drive volume of Mac. It is used to ensure the integrity and consistency of the hard drive and file system. But in certain cases, while trying to fix the damaged volumes with the help of Disk Utility, you may receive error message that appears on the system screen as follows:



“Volume Header needs minor repair

The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit

1HFS volume checked

Volume needs repair”



once you get this error, disk verification procedure gets discontinued and it remains the volume corrupted and inaccessible. To restore lost data from the hard drive volume of Mac, it is important to find out the reasons that grounds such errors. Primary cause of this error is corruption in the volume header. After the damaging of volume header, Mac OS X operating system becomes unable to identify the volume and therefore it can't be accessed.



To fix hard drive volume header corruption, you can format your Mac hard drive, recreate the partitions of the hard drive volumes, installation of OS again and then use to the backup to restore data. If there is no backup then it is suggested to use third party Stellar data recovery software.
It holds a powerful and advanced algorithm to perform the in-depth scan of complete hard drive and fix out the volume header corruption by extracting all lost and damaged data. Stellar data recovery tool is specifically developed to restore lost data. It is fully compatible with almost all the OS of Mac.

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Rebecca Jones is a professional article writer, in this article she has discussed about how to restore data back that gets lost due to volume header corruption with the help of Stellar Data Recovery Software.

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Category : Computers : Data Recovery

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