Do you  use your external hard drive to transfer data between Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating system-based computer? Are you getting errors while storing data to and accessing data from your external hard drive using Mac OS X computer? Well, this problem may occur due to file system compatibility issues on the external drive. This behavior may render your Mac OS X data inaccessible and cause critical data loss situations. You can prevent the data loss situations by restoring your significant data from the most recent backup. In case backup is invalid or not updated, Mac recovery is the way to overcome all problems.

As an practical example of this problem, consider the following scenario with your Mac OS X computer:

You try to copy a number of DMG (Disk Image file format in Mac OS X) files from your MacBook Pro to external hard drive.

The copy process gets interrupted with an error messages, which states- “Error code 0”.

You can not copy a file, which is larger than 4 Gigabyte in size, to your hard drive.

You get errors, related to file system structure and hard drive, while trying to access data from the problem external hard drive.

You may come across this behavior of Mac OS X operating system if any of the below conditions are true:

Your external hard drive is formatted using FAT32 file system.

The structure of hard drive is damaged.

Mac OS X operating system is unable to recognize the drive due to corrupt file system.

Resolution

You can try resolving this problem and performing data recovery Mac using any of the below methods, depending upon the cause of this behavior:

Change the file system of your hard drive from FAT32 to HFS. However, after changing the file system, drive can not be used with Windows computer.

If structure or file system of your hard drive is damaged, you can try formatting the drive. But, it is not a safe way to go as it removes all the drive from particular drive.

In such cases, Mac recovery software are required to get your mission-critical data back. The Mac data recovery applications quickly, easily, and safely recover lost data from Mac hard drive in all data loss circumstances.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most advanced and effective tool to offer absolute recovery of lost Mac data. The software is designed for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther. It retrieves lost data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes.