Saturday, January 8, 2011

“You need to restart your computer� Error in Mac and Data Loss

“You need to restart your computer� Error in Mac and Data Loss

Author: brad jerry

Kernel is a key component of Mac OS X operating system. It is responsible for managing system resources and allowing applications to be executed. In some cases, this core component of operating system becomes faulty and you come across “Kernel Panic� and some error message while starting your computer. It makes your system unbootable and unusable sometimes and results into severe data loss situations. In order to retrieve your valuable data at this point, you should opt for Mac Data Recovery solutions.

In a practical scenario, every time when you start your computer, the following error message takes place:

“You need to restart your computer�

This error message shows that an error has been occurred in core of Mac OS X operating system that is known as Kernel Panic. It could be caused by incompatible or damaged system resources and metadata structure like file system, MBR, partition table, volume header, catalog files and so forth.

How to solve Kernel Panic issue:

In ordr to sort out this problem, reinstall Mac OS X if you’ve recently change any system file. If the problem is due to moving or renaming a Mac OS X system file or directory, then you must Erase and Install the operating system. It would replace all the damaged, renamed or moved system files and sort out the issue. In case if you haven’t changed any system file, go through the underwritten steps to work around the issue:

Restart the system and select Apple menu-> System Preferences and click Startup Disk.

Make sure that the selected disk contain Mac OS X and restart the system with Option key.

When icons become visible in center of home screen, release Option key.

Choose the disk, which contains Mac OS X and click forward arrow to continue starting up.

Reset PRAM (Parameter Random Access Memory).

Although, reinstalling the operating system fixes kernel panic issues in most of the cases, but it also has a downside. It removes all of the stored data from hard drive and causes data loss situations, which require Mac Recovery to be sorted out. It is best possible using third party tools.

These applications are known as Mac Data Recovery software which employs efficient scanning methods to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and retrieve all of the missing data. With interactive user interface and read only conduct of these tools, Data Recovery Mac becomes quite easy and safe.

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is the most advanced tool to recover data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes. It is designed for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9. To recover data from unbootable system, use Boot DVD of this software.
 

Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_975673_11.html

About the Author: Brad jerry student of Mass Communication doing research on Mac disk recovery And Mac Recovery Software And Mac file recovery services . He is also a freelancer for http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/

http://www.mac-file-recovery.com

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