Mac recovery and Mac file recovery can actually mean two very different things. Yet both of these application functions tie together. In general when we speak of Mac recovery we are addressing the issue of restoring a Mac computer to operational status after a software or hardware crash has shut it down. Obviously many types of Mac problems are easy to solve such as when one has a power supply fail. But Mac problems caused by software damage or corruption often require us to reload the entire Mac operating system. Here is where Mac recovery and Mac file recovery coincide.
Before one can reload the Mac operating system so as to restore operation to the computer after a hard drive crash caused by corrupted software one must remove from the crashed hard drive any and all stored files that are of value. This can be accomplished by either removing the hard drive from the computer and connecting it with a cable to a working Mac, there by using working Mac to access the hard drive files. Or by first reloading the Mac operating system and using a Mac data recovery tool afterward to undelete reformatted files.