Are you facing directory corruption, cache corruption, and permission issues with your Mac OS X system? Are you unable to access stored data from Mac OS X hard drive? If your answer is ‘Yes’ for any of the above questions, you can use Disk Utility to sort out the problem. Disk Utility is a built-in tool in Mac OS X operating system to check integrity and consistency of file system and hard drive. However, in some cases, it may not fix the problem, and problem remains intact. This behavior may cause data loss and need Mac Data Recovery solutions through reliable applications to extract lost data.
As an example, the disk repair process fails and you encounter the below error message, when you try repair the damaged hard drive using Disk Utility:
“Error Code -9972”
After above error message the repair process gets terminated and the problem persists. It renders your valuable data inaccessible. In order to gain access of your critical data, it is essential to find out the cause of this problem and then perform Mac File Recovery by solving it.
Cause
Like most of the disk repair utilities, Disk Utility also comes with some limited repair abilities. Error 9972 shows that the Disk Utility can not repair damaged Mac hard drive. It means, the tool is unable to sort out current problem and let you access your data.
Solution
You can try out following things to work around this problem. You must backup all the data before using the below solutions.
Run fsck command-line utility in single user mode. You should unmount the volume before running fsck as it may damage file system.
If it does not work, go for third-party repair tools.
Perform clean reinstallation of the Mac OS X operating system by formatting hard drive. It replaces all the existing data structures. Though, it solves the problem, but also removes all the data from hard drive and need Data Recovery Mac to be handled.
You can easily and effectively recover lost data from affected Mac hard drive using Mac Recovery Software. The applications are powerful enough to perform in-depth scan of entire hard drive to extract all types of lost files. They are safe and easy to use with read-only behavior and graphical user interface.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the absolute solution to effectively handle all logical Mac data loss situations. The softwre recovers data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes. It is designed for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.
