1. What is data recovery software?
A: A tool to restore lost data due to software or hardware failure including computer being power outage, important files being deleted by accident, computer being infected with viruses, files being inaccessible, system crash, accidental operations, hacker’s attacks and so on.
 
2. Can we use data recovery software to recover lost data for Mac?
A: We can use data recovery software to realize data recovery in logical level. Although Mac computer adopts the latest Mac OS X operating systems and the corresponding Mac applications are in lack, the professional Mac data recovery software MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is able to resolve data loss problems of logical levels.
 
3. Can we recover lost data from formatted partition?
A: It depends on what kind of formatting style is adopted. There are two kinds of formatting ways: high-level formatting and low-level formatting. High-level formatting includes quick formatting and standard formatting. It means formatting operations via the built-in disk management tool in operating system and the data in the partition which is formatted in this way can be restored by employing data recovery software. If we perform low-level formatting, we can not use data recovery software to recover lost data from the formatted partition because low-level formatting endows hard drive with data storage ability and initializes disk sectors again.

4. Can we recover lost data when partition is deleted?
A: yes, we can. The main reason is that deleting partition operation only modifies disk partition table and does not operate on partition data. And partition data are still stored in the original location. We can recover lost data as long as we use data recovery software to scan the range where the deleted partition is contained.

5. After system crashes, how to prevent important data in system partition form being lost because of reinstalling operating system?
A: After system crashes, we have to transfer the important data to a safe location before reinstalling operating system to prevent important data in system partition form being lost. The only solution is to se MiniTool Power Data Recovery Boot Disk to transfer the important data.

6. Is MiniTool Power Data Recovery able to recover lost data from CD/DVD?
A: Yes, it is. Besides CD/DVD, it is also able to recover lost data from hard drive of IDE, SCSI and USB interfaces and flash storage devices including SD, XD, MMC, SDHS, memory stick and so on.

7. Is data recovery with MiniTool Power Data Recovery free?
A: Sure, MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition allows 1GB free data recovery.

8. I am a MacBook user, which data recovery software should I employ?
A: Since MacBook adopts Mac OS X, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, which is compatible with Mac OS X and recovers data directly under Mac, was recommended. Or you can certainly employ MiniTool Power Data Recovery if you can remove Mac hard disk to a Windows-based PC.