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How to Recover Lost/Deleted/Corrupted Data from Mac Hard Drive?

2012-07-27 14:20:16 / Posted by to PC Utilities Topic
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If you are Mac user and you have stored many important fils on Mac hard drive, it would be a huge disaster if there is unexpected erros happen on your Mac hard drive that cause losing those important photos, financial documents, emails or other crucial data. There are various data loss scenarios, such as accidental deleting, device formatting, virus infection, improper operation, unexpected power failure, and other unknown reasons. So we highly recommended you to back up all important documents on a regular basis.

If unfortunately that you have already got your data lost on Mac hard drive, simple and easy to operate Data Recovery for Mac is needed to retrieves lost, deleted files and archive files from hard drive partitions, USB removable drives including USB drive, SD card, digital camera, mobile phone, and MP3/MP4 player etc. Specialized file recovery software allows you to recover deleted file from hard disk and removable storages devices. And if you are a Windows user, we also have the Amacsoft Data Recovery Pro, which is suitable for all Windows platforms.

Here comes the user guide on how to recover data from Mac hard drive by using the recommended Data Recovery for Mac software. First of all, you should click the below button to get it downloaded and installed on your Mac.

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Steps to Restore Data on Mac Computer

Step 1: Install the Mac data recovery software

Purchase the software from the above link, install and run it on Mac computer. And click one of the recovery modes according to your needs. There are Deleted File Recovery, Raw Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, and Resume Recovery for your choice. Here we choose "Raw Recovery" option to recover Data from Mac Hard Drive.

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Step 2: Select a partition or drive where your lost data located

A list of partitions found on the drives or other storage media found by the Mac data recovery software will be displayed. For mobile or camera, it will be recognized when it is set as PC mode. Click "Scan" to start scanning for files.

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Step 3: Recover Data from Mac Hard Drive

Find out the target data that you want to recover. Click "Recover" to proceed to destination selection interface. Or click "Back" to return to the partition selection interface.

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Now select or enter a directory to store the recovered files. We highly suggest you select another directory which is different from the source one, in case it would eventually overwrite the source data. If there is only 1 partition, you can save the data on a removable device.

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