Problem description: I’m a teacher. I stored massive important teaching materials on my Mac computer. However, now, I cannot access these files since my hard disk is damaged due to improper operations. In this situation, what should I do? How to carry out Mac damaged hard disk data recovery?
In general, Mac users can turn to Time Machine to recover lost data for free. However, if users use this method to recover lost data, they need to backup all desired files in advance. Well, what if there is no Time Machine backups?
As a matter of fact, with the development of software technology, lots of different data recovery programs are made available in the market which can help to recover lost data. However, most of them don’t support Mac OS. At this time, users can try using a piece of green and professional Mac data recovery software MiniTool Mac Data Recovery (PCWORLD, a professional IT magazine, speaks very highly of this Mac data recovery software).
As a green, excellent and concise Mac data recovery program, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can help to recover data that have been lost in a variety of ways including accidental deletion, partition changes and computer viruses invasion since this software provides four different data recovery modules. Besides, it provides wizard-based operation and simple interface. Furthermore, with this Mac data recovery software, users can recover data without bringing damage to the original data because of its high security. Now, let’s see the detailed steps of Mac damaged hard disk recovery.
In the beginning, users have to install MiniTool Mac Data Recovery on computer. And then, launch it to get the following window.
Note: to successfully recover lost data from damaged hard disk, users have to remove the damaged disk from the current machine and then connect it to another machine as a secondary drive.
The above window is the main interface of the professional Mac data recovery software. It lists four relatively independent data recovery modules (Undelete Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery and Digital Media Recovery), and each of them focuses on different data loss scenario. At this time, users can select a suitable one according to actual needs to recover lost data. Here, to recover data from damaged hard disk, users are supposed to select “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this module is specially designed to recover data from damaged, formatted and RAW hard disk. In general, lost files could be recovered by using this module as long as the partition exists.
In the above window, users should select the damaged partition and then click “Full Scan” to thoroughly scan it. After that, they will see the following window.
At this time, users can select all desired files and then click “Save” button.
Finally, users need to click “Browse…” to select a suitable place to store recovered files. After all operations are done, users have finished recovering lost files and data from damaged hard disk.
See! It is very easy to recover data from damaged hard disk drive on Mac, isn’t it? If you need to recover lost data on Mac, you can try using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery because of its excellent performance and simple operations. This tool will surprise you all.