Hard Disk Recovery

Problem: I have a Mac computer, and I leave massive precious photos on it. However, unfortunately, my brother formats my hard drive by mistake. And, there is no backup. At this time, what should I do? Can I recover these lost photos from formatted hard drive on Mac OS X? Is it possible to recover Mac photos without affecting the original data?

Mac Photo Recovery

In general, as long as the lost data are not overwritten and data loss is not caused by hardware failure, we can recover them via professional data recovery companies and Mac data recovery software.

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery proves to be an excellent tool for Mac photos recovery because of its powerful functions, high security and simple interface. Now, let’s see the detailed steps.

Note: if you don’t care about data security and high recovery fees, you can turn to professional data recovery companies for help.

How to Recover Mac Photos

First, you need to run MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to open its main interface.

4 different data recovery modules (Undelete Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery and Damaged Partition Recovery) are listed in the main window. And, you can select a suitable one according to actual needs to recover lost data. Here, to recover lost photos, you can click Digital Media Recovery since this module is specially designed to recover lost photo, video and music files.

Now, select the partition containing lost photos and then click Full Scan button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, all found data are displayed in the following window.

At this time, select all needed data and then click Save button.

Finally, click Browse… to select a suitable place to store them. Note: Please store recovered files on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten.

After all operations are done, you have finished recovering lost photo on Mac by using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery without affecting the original data.