Hard Disk Recovery

“I have a hard drive with valuable information on it, but I can’t seem to access it—the drive is either damaged or erased. Is there any way I can get these data back? By the way, I am running computer with Mac OS X.”

In this situation, what should I do?

Ways to Recover Data from Mac Dead Hard Drive

As a matter of fact, there are two common ways to recover data from dead hard drive on Mac OS X. One approach is to turning to professional data recovery companies, and the second method resorts to a piece of professional Mac data recovery software.

Turning to data recovery companies is indeed an effective method for lost data recovery. However, this approach has two big disadvantages. The high recovery fees charged by companies are hard to afford; and users have to bear the risk of privacy leakage. So well, more and more users like to try using data recovery software.

Look, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, a green, professional and simple Mac data recovery software, can help to easily and quickly recover lost data.

How to Recover Data from Dead Hard Drive on Mac OS X

First, users need to move the dead hard drive from their current machine, and then connect it to another computer as a second hard drive. After that, they can launch MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to get its main interface as follows.

Here, to recover data from dead hard drive, users can try clicking “Damaged Partition Recovery”. In general, as long as lost files are not overwritten and files loss is not caused by hardware failure, users can recover them with this tool.

In this window, users are supposed to select the dead hard drive, and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, users will see the following window.

Now, select all needed files and then click “Save” button to store them.

Finally, click “Browse….” to select a suitable place to store them on a safe place. Thus, all work has been done.

After seeing the above simple introduction, I guess you must have a basic understanding of Mac hard drive data recovery. If you need to recover lost data on Mac OS X without affecting the original data, you can try using MiniTool Power Data Recovery because it offers excellent performance as well as high security.