How to Recover Formatted Data on Mac Easily and Safely

 

August 28, 2013 4:11 pm / Posted by Bill Smith to Data Recovery Tips
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Sometimes you may format your hard drive for storing other items, but after that, you found some important files or data were deleted, in this condition, what can you do? have you ever tried to retrieve the formatted data? Have you succeeded? If you failed to get the data back and still worry about data loss, your problem is over; this article will offer you a workable solution to recover formatted data on Mac.

No matter how carefully we using our hard disks, sometimes we may delete files by accident. It is terribly painful to lose data or files, even lose files that do not hold critical information, such as photos, personal videos, music etc.. These files are most commonly lost, however, they are not lost forever if your hard drive is not overwritten, the Mac file system store them in the disk but not let general users to use them anymore, and the operating system count such data as free space.

Once the files are sent to the Trash and emptied by users, they are lost. To retrieve them, you need some apps like iOrgsoft Data Recovery (Data Recovery for Mac) to recover them. This program can perform the Formatted Data Recovery on Mac by scanning and searching for deleted files. If the files are not broken, this software can recover them.

Download and install iOrgsoft Data Recovery Mac application by clicking the icon above, install it on your Mac.

Select data recovery mode

Launch iOrgsoft Formatted Data Recovery software, and choose "Lost Data Recovery" mode form the main interface of this program. If you want to restore data from your Mac hard drive completely, select "Raw Data Recovery" mode.

Choose the drive to scan lost files

Choose the drive where you think the files were lost, if you know what format the formatted files are, you can use "Filter" feature to select the file types to scan, which will speed up the scanning.

Preview and restore formatted data

When the scanning is over, all the recoverable files found will be in the folders on the left panel. Go to the folders to find the files you need, and preview them on the bottom window, once you confirm the files are what your look for, click Recover to retrieve them.