Now, more and more users choose to run Mac computer since it has excellent OS. However, no matter how wonderful an OS is, mistakenly formatted hard drive will cause data loss. So, how to recover data from formatted hard drive on Mac OS X has become a topic of concern to everyone.
Mac Formatted Hard Drive Data Recovery
As a matter of fact, when it comes to Mac formatted hard drive data recovery, some users will firstly think of turning to data recovery companies. It is indeed an effective method for lost files recovery, but it has 2 big disadvantages. Users have to pay high recovery fees and bear the risk of privacy leakage.
In general, to recover data from formatted hard drive on Mac, you can try using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. As a piece of professional, simple, and green Mac data recovery software developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., Minitool can help to recover lost data effectively and quickly.
How to Recover Data from Formatted Hard Drive on Mac
First, you need to launch MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to open its main interface.
Now, in the above window, you can see 4 different data recovery modules: Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery and Digital Media Recovery. Here, to recover data from formatted hard disk, you can click “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this module is specially designed to recover data from formatted, damaged and RAW partition. In general, as long as the partition exists, you can recover lost data with this module.
Next, select the formatted hard drive and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, all found data are listed in the following window.
At this time, select all desired data and click “Save” button to store them on a safe place. Note: please store recovered data on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten.
After all operations are done, you have finished recovering lost data from Mac formatted hard drive by using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery.