Hard Disk Recovery

Problem description: I stored massive important files on my Mac hard disk. But, a virus infected my computer. So, I could not access my files stored on this hard disk. In this situation, I want to know what I can do. Can I recover files and data from damaged hard disk in Mac OS X? Is it possible to quickly and easily recover data from Mac hard disk?

Damaged Hard Disk Recovery

A computer virus is a malware program that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computer programs, data files, or the boot sector of the hard drive; when this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be “infected”. Once a hard disk gets infected by computer viruses, this disk may become inaccessible. At this time, how to recover data from damaged hard disk?

As a matter of fact, users can turn to professional data recovery companies and data recovery software to recover files from damaged hard disk in Mac OS X. Turning to data recovery companies is indeed an effective method for lost files recovery, but users have to bear high costs or the risk of privacy leakage. Therefore, turning to a piece of professional Mac data recovery software is a good choice for most common users.

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, a piece of green, effective and concise Mac data recovery software developed by famous software development company based in Canada, can help to effectively recover files & data from damaged hard disk in Mac OS X because of its excellent performance. Furthermore, this professional Mac data recovery program provides wizard-based operation and simple interface. Now, let’s see the detailed steps to recover lost data and files.

How to Recover Files & Data from Damaged Hard Disk in Mac OS X

At first, users need to install this MiniTool Mac Data Recovery on computer. After that, they can launch it to get the following window.

Note: to perfectly recover data from damaged hard disk, users had better remove the hard disk drive from the current machine and then connect it to another machine as a secondary drive.

The above window is the main interface of this professional Mac data recovery software. It contains four different data recovery modules: Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, and Digital Media Recovery, and each of them focuses on different data loss condition. Here, to recover data from damaged hard disk, users can choose “Damaged Partition Recovery”. In general, lost files could be recovered by using this module as long as the partition exists.

In this window, users need to select the damaged partition and then click “Full Scan” button. After scanning, they will see the following window.

At this time, users need to select all desired data and files and then click “Save” button.

Finally, users need to click “Browse…” to select a safe place to store recovered files. After all operations are done, users have finished recovering lost data and files from damaged hard disk in Mac OS X.

See! With MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, we can easily and quickly recover lost data in Mac OS X.