hard drive recovery on mac

As an essential component of a computer, hard drive is used to store a large quantity of data due to its large capacity. Occasionally, Mac users may format a hard drive when all data in it are useless. Or when you delete a file or folder by using “Shift + Delete”, it is considered permanently deleted as you can neither find it in the Trash, nor somewhere in computer. But the fact is that the file still exists on your hard disk. And you can recover deleted files from mac, even though they are deleted from the Trash.

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Don’t be worried. Users have great chance to recover deleted files from mac because after Trash data deletion or Trash emptying, the deleted data are not removed from Mac drive right away. Actually, it is possible to recover the replaced file completely if it is not overwritten by newly saved data. But users need to utilize a third-party file recovery software to achieve replaced file restoration. This is because the replaced file cannot be found anyplace in Mac computer.

Actually, users can realize emptied Trash restoration just by making use of a third-party recovery tool, such as Mac Data Recovery. This is a popular application for restoring deleted data and data in formatted partition as well as logically damaged partition. To know more about Mac Trash recovery, users should read the following tutorial carefully.

Open the software to go to this interface. Users can choose “Undelete Recovery” or “Damaged Partition Recovery” to fulfill the recovery. Here, we activate “Undelete Recovery” module to begin. Choose the drive you want to recover deleted files and click the “Scan” to scan it. If your drive isn't included in the list, click “Refresh” to take a look. Thirdly, pick out the useful files from the scan results and hit “Save” to set the storing location. This is the entire hard drive recovery mac.