Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac facilitates the option to create an image of the entire drive/volume. Moreover, users can create the image of a particular sector or region as well. Create Image option is viable when the drive/volume has bad sectors. Also, the image file created is saved as a DMG file format. The process of creating an image of the drive is simple.

Follow these steps to create an image of the drive/volume:

- Run Stellar Data Recovery software.

- From the Side Panel, click Stellar Help icon to select Create Image screen option.


- From the Create Image screen, select the drive or partition for which you wish to create an image.


- To create an image of the entire drive or partition click Create.

Or

To create an image of the selected region click on the Select Disk Segment. From the Select Range to Create Image screen, drag the sliders to define the starting and ending sectors of the image file. Click Apply button.


- In the Creating Media Image to Save dialog box, locate the destination where the image file should be saved. In the Save As text box, type name. Click Save button.

Note: If you are scanning a system drive having Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, or Big Sur for the first time using Stellar Data Recovery, you need to allow macOS to load an extension signed b“Stellar Data Recovery”. To know the procedure refer to Recover Data from System Disk with High Sierra and Above.


- After the process completes, Imaging Successful dialog box appears. Select OK.


- After the process gets completed, a screen as displayed below shows the newly created image.


- Click Scan button to start the recovery process.

- A screen showing the scanning process is displayed. If you wish to stop the scan at any point, click Stop button.


- Once the scanning process completes, details of the files and folder found would be displayed in a dialog box as shown below:


- Click OK.

- For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Preview the Scan Results and Save the Recovered Files. 

Note: If you wish to save the scanned information and resume the recovery process at a later stage, see Save and Resume Scan Information

Tip: It is recommended that you should save ‘scan information file’ and ‘hard disk image’ at different locations with a proper name such that you can easily retrieve the required image file.