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How to Recover Lost Partition on Mac?

2012-01-03 14:23:17 / Posted by to PC Utilities Topic
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Like any other Operating System, Macintosh Operating system also consists of local partitions or logical drives such as:
• HFS (Hierarchical File System)
• HFS+ (Hierarchical File System)

But these Partitions may get lost, missed or corrupted due to some common reasons like hard drive crash, uncertain system shutdown, viral attacks, power surge, software corruption, file system corruption. Due to partition loss, important data stored on those partitions may become inaccessible which may create many hardships to the persons who are depending on data. But you just can stop worring out data loss issue right now after you reading this article because we will introduce a professional and easy-to-use tool to help your recover lost partitions on Mac.

No additional special technique needed, all the recovery process can be with Data Recovery for Mac, which can not only restore lost partitions but also recover lost files from lost or missing, deleted, formatted HFS+ Partitions of Mac Operating system. It is 100% secure that nothing will be damaged after the recovery process. The Mac Data Recovery is compatible with Mac OS X Mavericks. By the way, if you want to recover lost partitions on Windows platform, we also have the Amacsoft Data Recovery Pro, which can do a big favor for you.

First of all, download the free trial version of the data recovery software for Mac to get ready.

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Restore Lost Partition on Mac Steps:

Step 1: Choose the recovery mode

Install and launch Lost Partition Recovery for Mac. On the main interface, there are 4 options for you to choose from, and hit "Lost Partition Recovery", which can help you find the lost partition at first.

Then it will take quite a long time to scan for the lost partition, including all partitions that lost before. The retrieved partitions are not named as original, so you can decide which partition to recover by the size of it.

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Step 2: Recover Lost Partition on Mac

After choosing the target partition, you can use the "Filter Options" to select the file types you want to get back. As an advanced user, you also can set the specified region by the starting and the ending sectors. Then click "Recover" to recover all of the files in the partition, recover and save them on your Mac.

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Note: If you have an external hard drive connected with your Mac, the lost partition of the external hard drive will also be scanned out. So if you don't want to retrieve the lost partition of other hard drives, make sure they are not connected with your Mac computer.

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