Data recovery mac when disk utility failed with error code 9972

To overcome the problems of directory or cache corruption and permission issues in Mac disk utility is used. Mac OS X system include an inbuilt utility known as disk utility for performing disk related tasks such as creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images, mounting & unmounting, freeing disk space, enabling or disabling journaling, cloning, verifying disk integrity, ejecting disks, backup etc.

Just like disk repair utility, some limitations are found in disk utility as well. Sometimes while using it problems may arise leading to inaccessibility of data. In a particular case in which the disk repair process fail with “error code -9972”. Error while using disk utility with code-9972 simply means that disk utility can not repair damaged mac system hard drive and thus does not let us access data.

In order to resolve the problem after disk utility failed you could follow the method described here to correct disk utility startup issues - Fsck command line utility is to be executed in single user mode and the volume should be unmounted before that other wise the file system may be damaged. If this works it’s all right, in rest of the cases reinstallation of Mac OS X after drive format needs to be done. No doubt it solves the problem but also wipes out the hard drive data. In order to recover those lost data and file you need to use mac data recovery software.

It is an efficient and easy to use program for recovery of lost data embedded within graphical user interface and its read only behavior makes it safe enabling completely recover files in intact form. It supports Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, 10.3.9 and retrieves data from HFS, HSF+, HFSX, HFS wrapper file system volume.

In this way error code 9972 of boot disk utility in Mac OS X system can be resolved without loosing data.