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Often I am asked why Windows recovery tools will not work on Mac computers. Aside from the fact that many versions of Mac computers use processors that are completely incompatible with Windows binary code, the greater issue lies in access to hard drive storage. The Mac OS X operating system accesses files on the hard drive through a three step process. Those being disk initialization, disk verification and disk access. Windows uses one step directly allowing access to files.

Even if one built a Mac recovery tool that could connect to the Mac hard drive from the Windows platform it would still fail when met with the disk verification process. Tools for Mac recovery have the innate ability to leapfrog the disc verification step and directly open Mac files. Of course these tools are also designed to load directly onto the Mac platform and from their operate so as to also assist in file recovery on any universal application or connected external device.