How to Recover Lost Files after Formatting Mac Hard Drive

No matter what reasons, if users have formatted the Mac hard drive mistakenly, a disaster hits. The Mac hard drive might contain all of the purchased apps, family photos, videos, business documents, archive backup files, emails and many more. All of these may be the users’ whole lives. What to to? How to recover files from formatted Mac hard drive? Don’t panic, we can help.

How to Recover Files from Formatted Mac Hard Drive

Actually it is possible to recover Mac files after formatting. If users just formatted but doesn’t write any new files to the Mac hard drive, there will be a chance to recover the files.

The Mac hard drive will maintain an index file which controls the entire file system. The standard formatting only changes the index files rather than the really files. So, although the formatted files are inaccessible, users can recover them from formatted hard drive with the help of data recovery software like uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac. It can help users to bring the files back to life from formatted Mac hard drive. With it, users can safely restore files easily.

Why We Need to Format Mac Hard Drive and How to Protect Our File

Usually, Mac users format their Macintosh HD with the Erase option in Disk Utility. By specifying the disk and the partition Volume, Disk Utility will format all files and folders on the Volume. This may fix some logical problems of your drives and partitions. But it’s usually not necessary. People realize that later but it’s too late. Also the following scenarios might require you to reformat your Macintosh. Only do it when it’s really necessary.

1. To totally remove a virus from your Mac because it can’t be removed with an anti-virus application.

2. A clean installation of Mac system to fix boot failure problems or recover crucial system files.

3. Delete the entire file system if you don’t want all files any more.

4. Use a Mac hard drive on Windows without Mac Drive installed and asked to format the drive.

Important: Time Machine backup or other kind of backup can always protect your precious data from being lost. We strongly recommend you to backup important files at other storage media whenever it’s needed.

Step by Step Guidance for Mac Formatted Hard Drive File Recovery

Step 1-Install Software and Run It on Your Mac OS X

Install and run uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac OS X. In the normal situation, your hard drive will be shown on the bottom of the software interface. After you can see your drive, go to step two. (If you want to recover data from your storage device, just plug it in your Mac and you will see it at the same position where your hard drive is shown.)

Step 2-Scan Mac Hard Drive

When you see your hard drive is shown on the software interface, move your mouse to choose it by one click, and then move your mouse again to click “Scan” button to start “deeply scan” operation.

Step 3-Preview and Recovery

After scanning is finished, you will find the scanning results are listed on your left side. You can choose the files to preview(only photo files can be previewed), once you ensure the files is the one you want to recover, tick the little box in front of the file and then click button “Recovery”. After a while, you will find that all of the lost files are recovered successfully from your Mac hard drive.

Users can check the video tutorial to get the simple guidance of the data recovery process.

For more details about other types of data recovery, users just need to come to our official website by clicking this technical post.