Recover Lost Files from Formatted Mac Hard Drive with Ease

If you have formatted your Mac hard drive mistakenly, no matter what reasons are, but a disaster comes. The purchased songs which you love so much, the photos which you took with your families, videos captured with your phones or digital camera, the Word working documents, files backup or other important files-all of these may be your whole life and you store on your Mac. But think about what we talk above, you mistakenly formatted your Mac hard drive. All of these are gone forever. Is it true? Are these files are gone forever? How to recover lost files from formatted Mac hard drive? Don’t panic, we can help you, just keep reading this article.

How to Recover Files from Formatted Mac Hard Drive

Is it possible to recover lost files from formatted Mac hard drive? Definitely yes! If you haven’t put any new files into your Mac hard drive after formatting it, chance is still there for you to get back your files. Your 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, though the files which are formatted are inaccessible, you can recover them from formatted Mac hard drive with the help of third party data recovery software. uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac is one of this kind of data recovery app that you need. It is a file saver if you want to recover files from formatted Mac hard drive. With it, you can easily recover formatted files from Mac hard drive.

Why Users Need to Format Mac Hard Drive and How to Protect Data

Usually, Mac users use Erase option in Disk Utility to format their Mac hard drive. By specifying the disk and the partition volume, Disk Utility will format all the files on the volume. This process can fix some logical problems of the Mac drive and partition, but actually it’s usually not necessary. Mac users realize that later but it’s too late. The following options might require you to reformat your Mac. 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 aiti-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.

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

Recover Files from Formatted Mac Hard Drive with uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac

Step 1-Run uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac

After installing uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac, you will see there is a simple but tiny interface. All function buttons are listed on the interface so users no need to find any hidden option. This can help users even computer novices can handle it without any stress.

Only few mouse clicks for you to process the whole “Complicated” task and recover files from your Mac hard drive/storage device.

Step 2-Launch Scan Function to Search Lost Files

While running the software, you will see your hard drive will be listed on the interface. You can simply click it to choose and then click “Scan”. The software will scan deeply for finding the lost files.

To whom want to recover lost files from the external hard drive or restore deleted files from the USB drive, just plugged the device in the Mac. The external hard drive/USB drive will be shown on the interface just like the Mac hard drive. Then users can choose the item and start scanning.

Step 3-Preview the Found Files and Recover Them

Because of the deeply scanning ability, all of the recoverable files will be scanned out and shown on a new list. You can choose one to preview. (Preview function only works on photo files.)

To recover the lost files, simply tick the box in front of them and click the “Recovery” button beside the “Scan” button. Then the software will pop up a dialog box for you to choose a safe place to save the recovered files.

Important Note: For users who recover lost files from Mac hard drive, don’t save the recovered files on the source drive but choose a storage device to store the recovered files. But if users who recover files from an external hard drive or retrieve USB drive lost files, just simply choose to store the files on the Mac hard drive.

You can view the video tutorial below to get the easy guidance to recover your files from formatted Mac hard drive.

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