Stellar Photo Recovery
- 1. About Stellar Photo Recovery
- 2. About this Guide
3. Getting Started- 4. How to
- 4.1. Assign Full Disk Access
- 4.2. Recover Data from System Disk with High Sierra and Above
- 4.3. Recover Data from Existing Volume
- 4.4. Recover Data from Lost Drive/Unallocated Partition
- 4.5. Recover Data from CD/DVD
- 4.6. Work with Disk Images
- 4.7. Preview the Scan Results
- 4.8. Perform a Deep Scan
- 4.9. Save and Resume Scan Information
- 4.10. Save the Recovered Files
- 4.11. Change Preferences
- 4.12. Access Data View Options
- 5. Supported File Types
- 6. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- 7. About Stellar
Stellar Photo Recovery / 4. How to / 4.8. Perform a Deep Scan / 4.8.2. Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP)
4.8.2. Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP)
Stellar Photo Recovery provides recovery of data from mac models with M1, M2, M3 or M4 chip. If you have an M1, M2, M3 or M4 chip system then for performing a deep scan you are required to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). SIP is a security feature introduced in Mac Operating System to restrict the access of third-party applications to system disk and partition. This feature prevents any modification in protected system files and folders on your Mac. Thus, disabling SIP helps the software to access the data and perform the recovery process.
Note: While performing a deep scan of any volume, Stellar Photo Recovery software is required to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). This process only needs to be set when starting a deep scanning process for the first time.
Steps to Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP):
- Run Stellar Photo Recovery.
- From What to Recover screen, select the desired type of data, i.e., Photos, Audio or Videos you wish to recover. Everything is selected by default. You can also customize your scan by selecting among the available types of data.
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Click Next.
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From the Recover From screen, select the volume from which you want to recover the data.
- Select Deep Scan directly from here. If you want to perform a comprehensive scan of the selected volume, then click on Scan.
Note: If you don't want to select Deep Scan from Recover From screen, then skip Step 5 and directly click on Scan button for quick volume scanning.
- Steps to work on MacOS with SIP enabled window is displayed showing the steps for how to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP).
Note: For further instructions on how to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), follow the steps mentioned from Step 13.
- Click Stop button, if anytime you need to abort the scanning process.
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After the scan process is completed, details of the files and folder found are displayed in a dialog box as shown below:
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Click OK to finish the process.
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If you have performed a quick scan from Recover From screen and your expected data is not recovered, then click on Click here link from preview window to perform deep scanning. Deep Scan dialog box is displayed prompting to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). Disable the SIP and then perform a deep scan.
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Click on Disable SIP button.
Note: You can also select Continue Scan if you wish to continue the deep scan without disabling SIP.
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Steps to work on MacOS with SIP enabled window is displayed showing the steps for how to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP).
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To enter the recovery mode, shut down your Mac and then press and hold the power button. Release the button once it shows, Loading startup options.
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You will see two options: Your macOS HD and Options. Select Options, click Continue.
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From Utilities menu, open Terminal.
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Type csrutil disable and press return. The type 'y' and hit return. Now enter your password and hit return again.
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Restart your system and continue recovering data.