Resolve “Error Code – 9972” While Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X
These days the demand for Mac operating system has increased; mainly due to its advanced features and technology. But being and electronic device sometimes user faces directory corruption, permission issues with Mac OS X system. Due to this they become unable to access the stored data from Mac OS X hard drive. This also results in inaccessible data or data loss situation. After this the need to resolve the problem arises and for this users can use inbuilt Disk Utility to sort the problem.
Disk utility is inbuilt tool that is available in Mac operating system specially to check the consistency and integrity of system and hard drive. But sometimes when the corruption problem is severe then it becomes difficult to fix the problem. This finally results in data loss situation and then need to recover lost data arises.
For instance, the disk utility that were used fails in between thereafter user encounter below given error message, while trying to repair damaged hard drive using Disk Utility:
"Error Code -9972"
After this error message the repair process gets terminated in between and problem persists. And all your valuable data becomes inaccessible. So in order to gain all the data back it is important to know the exact reason behind error code -9972.
Main Cause of this error message is that the Disk Utility is available with limited repair abilities. Error 9972 shows that disk utility cannot repair damaged hard drive. By this it is clear that the inbuilt utility is unable to repair the hard disk problem. After this you can also try and run fsck command-line utility in single user mode to resolve the error problem. For this unmount the volume before running fsck as it can damage the file system. If this does not work then simply reformat your hard drive. This deletes entire stored data but the error Code -9972 gets resolved.
so to restore deleted data back user can try third party Mac hard drive recovery software. It has powerful algorithm that performs advanced scanning of Mac hard drive and then restore entire deleted data from hard disk. The software recovers data from HFS+, HFS, HFS Wrapper, HFSX, and FAT file system volumes. It is designed for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.3.9 Panther.
