How to regain Mac data from erased hard drive?

Mac users are always suggested to create a successful backup of entire hard drive and store it to a different storage media like CD/DVD, USB Flash media drive before initiating any operation/experiment on Mac system. Mac system has a built-in feature called Time Machine for creating and maintaining backup on the behalf of a user. If Mac has a proper set up for Time Machine then this app needs an external media drive to store the backup. Usually it’s good to keep duplicate copy on another storage media rather on the same physical storage location. Now the main point arises; what if external drive hard drive becomes inaccessible and it’s difficult to fetch the stored data. Either it seems like the drive is inaccessible or accidentally erased.

There are plenty of ways to examine the drive status and to recover the amount of lost data. If the case is related with the hard drive failure then the first step is to check the health of hard drive.

If the drive is physically damaged (broken/bent pins) then drive couldn’t be connected properly with another system for attempting data recovery.

In case, if there is no physically harm but data can’t be accessed then avoid overwriting on drive. The more you overwrite on drive more you lose chances of data recovery.

On the other hand, if drive is in good condition but seems like inaccessible or not able to mount then connect the drive to your system. Use the knowledge and choose an efficient Mac data recovery tool to regain the lost data.

Here is Mac data recovery software “Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery’ which can recover the lost data based on HFS, HFS+, FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems. It scans the complete drive from the scratch and gets back documents, pictures, and other multimedia files in its original format. 

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

If the data loss has occurred due to formatting, accidental deletion or any other issues in a hassle-free manner then it works well. Moreover, it gives full support for Imaging the hard drive, selective volume recovery option, preview during scans, and lot more.

All a user needs an Intel processor and 1 GB of RAM to install the software. 50 MB drive space must be kept as free before installing it. Once the software gets launched, 3 recovery options would appear on first screen:

   

• Recover Data
• Create Image
• Resume Recovery

Recover Data option is able to recover the lost files, photos and multimedia docs from inaccessible Mac drive (volume by volume), CD, DVD, iPods, USB Flash media drive and removal media. Good thing is that during scanning process recoverable files and documents are previewed. Once the scanning process is finished, the data can be recovered and saved on desired location just by hitting a single click.

Create Image option is able to create an image of a selected drive. This option asks for two pointers; i.e. ‘Starting Sector’ and ‘Ending Sector’ of the selected volume for creating an image.

Resume Recovery option is able to resume data recovery process. It means after scanning complete drive, if user want to save the scanned information and recover the lost data later then click on ‘Resume Recovery’ option, which will lead to the further recovery process.