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Clicking Drive

If your drive is clicking or making any other strange noises this is likely due to some physical problems with the drive. It is strongly recommended that you immediately power down the drive and stop using it. You will likely cause more data loss by using a drive that is clicking or suffering from a hardware issue so the best option is to stop using it and send it to our full-service cleanroom recovery solution: www.TheDataRescueCenter.com

Deleted files

If you've deleted files on your main drive, those files are marked as free space by the system and can be written over as needed. It's important to stop using your computer as soon as possible in this situation. Do not download any software to the drive where the deleted files were (as that download may overwrite those very files you're trying to recover). There are a few options for you in this situation:


  1. Boot your computer from our Data Rescue Boot DVD
    1. If you have one, simply follow the instructions on the DVD — Then run a deleted file scan on your drive — You will need a second drive to recover the deleted files to.
    2. If you do not have a Data Rescue Boot DVD, you may purchase one online. It is important that you download the boot DVD image to a different computer, burn it using that other computer and then take the disc to the computer you're trying to recover deleted files from. Your email receipt for the Boot DVD image download will include instructions on how to burn this boot DVD and use it to boot your Mac.
    3. You may also purchase Data Rescue in a retail store (Apple store, MicroCenter,etc) or online store (Other World Computing, Amazon, etc). The retail packaged box will include the bootable DVD inside the box.

  2. Boot your computer via FireWire Target Disc Mode (using another Macintosh)

Target Disk Mode

  1. Turn off the machine with the corrupted hard drive (machine).
  2. Connect both machines using a firewire cable.
  3. Boot the secondary Mac as you do normally.
  4. Boot the machine with the corrupted hard drive (machine), while holding the "T" key. Hold the "T" key until you see a FireWire icon floating across the screen.
  5. On your secondary Mac, download and open the Data Rescue 3 demo.
  6. In Data Rescue 3, select the Target FireWire connected Hard Drive as the drive to scan.

If you do not have access to another Mac, you may contact our sales department to order a bootable DVD to be shipped to you for $7.50 shipping and handling so you may demo the software prior to purchase. You may call our sales line at 1-877-477-6763.


  1. Boot your computer via secondary bootable drive

If you have a bootable secondary HD that has a Mac operating system on it, you may use it to run Data Rescue 3 & scan your drive. Here's how:


  1. From a powered off state hold down the "option" key while powering your Mac up.
  2. Once the option's menu appears select your bootable HD and click the arrow to continue.
  3. Install Data Rescue 3 to the HD and launch it.
  4. Now you can scan you HD safely while booting from another drive.

If the deleted files you are trying to recover are NOT on your main drive, then you can simply download the demo for Data Rescue 3 to that main drive, install the application and run it, scanning the other drive where the deleted files occurred.

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What's New in Data Rescue 3

  • Data Rescue 3 sports a brand new Graphical User Interface, with animated visual effects.
  • Over 100 new Reconstructed file types have been added for Deleted and Deep scans.
    Click HERE to see a complete list
  • A powerful new feature called FileIQ allows Data Rescue 3 to learn about new file types from user-supplied samples. This greatly extends the number of potential Reconstructed file types supported.
  • A new File Previewer feature, which can preview many file types prior to recovery.
  • The ability to suspend and resume scans, and to manage the results from multiple scans.
  • Improved support for scanning Apple software RAID drives
  • Improved support for scanning large > 1TB drives
  • Improved support for recovering large sparse disk image files
  • Improved support for recovering pkzip files
  • Improved recovery of hard linked files
  • Added ability to unmount or eject a volume (useful when booted from DVD-ROM)
  • Automatic check for updated Data Rescue 3 version
  • Improved features to assist if a call to Prosoft technical support becomes necessary.
  • New Home Folder feature when booted from DVD; avoids the need to re-enter activation key each time it's booted.
  • Numerous bug fixes

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    Data Rescue 3 - System Requirements

    Current Shipping Version: 3.2.2
    Current Boot DVD Version: 2

    You may run Data Rescue 3 in two distinct ways, depending on your circumstances and what hard drive you need to recover.

    1. You may run Data Rescue 3 as a normal application

    This is the method you would choose if you are trying to recover files from a secondary hard drive (not your main hard drive). Here are the system requirements for running Data Rescue 3 as an application: Simply install Data Rescue 3 on you Main Mac drive.

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 / 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.8
  • 512MB RAM Minimum (1GB or more recommended)
  • PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel, 1.0GHz processor minimum
  • To prevent your files from being overwritten, Data Rescue 3 requires you to have a second hard drive to recover to
  • Data Rescue cannot recover an ethernet or WiFi-connected hard drive *

    • Data Rescue 3 can scan a hard drive for the files you need but you will not be able to recover them to that same hard that is being scanned. The reason this is required is to ensure the safe recovery of your data. Rule number one of data recovery is to never recover the files to the same drive you are scanning as that can cause issues and puts your files in danger of being corrupted or overwritten. To prevent your files from being overwritten, Data Rescue 3 requires you to have a second hard drive to recover to.

    * Network Drives can have various file systems on them (HFS+, Linux, etc) and Data Rescue does not support all these file systems. It is recommended that you download the Data Rescue 3 demo here (link) to scan your network drive (which must be connected via FireWire or USB) to see if Data Rescue can see the files on it.

    2. You may run Data Rescue 3 from a secondary device

    This is the method you would choose if you are trying to recover files from your Startup Disk (the main HD hard drive in your Mac). Since the files you are trying to recover are on your Startup Disk, you cannot install or run software on that same disk. Instead, you must startup your Mac using one of the methods below:

    1. Starting up from a secondary startup disk with OS X installed on it
    2. Starting up from a secondary Mac
    3. Starting up from the Data Rescue 3 Boot DVD (for older Macs)