How to Recover Data From Mac External Hard Drive

In today’s world, external hard drives have been widely used as supplementary mass storage devices for Mac. It is always a good way to keep your valuable photos, videos and other files in an external storage device so that you can bring them anywhere. Then problem might come: What if you accidentally delete files in your external hard drive? What if files are lost from your formatted external hard drive? Or what if files become corrupted in your external hard drive?

• Part 1: Mac External Hard Drive Data Lost Issue
• Part 2: The Best Mac External Hard Drive Data Recovery
• Part 3: 3 Stepe to Recover Data from Mac External Hard Drive

Part 1: Mac External Hard Drive Data Lost Issue

When facing those annoying data loss issues, Mac users may ask: is there any solution for me to recover data from mac external hard drive? If you are lucky enough, you may have backup copy of lost files, and you can easily restore them from that copy. But on the other hand, you can still ask help from a Mac external hard drive data recovery program. You can take Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac as a try, and then follow its simple steps to recover data from Mac external hard drive.

Part 2: The Best Mac External Hard Drive Data Recovery

This fascinating Mac external hard drive recovery utility supports almost external hard drives of all brands, including Seagate, LaCie, Western Digital, Maxtor, etc. Download the trial version of Wondershare mac data recovery from above link now. This trial version enables you to scan your external hard drive on your Mac before recovery.

Part 3: 3 Stepe to Recover Data from Mac External Hard Drive

NoteIf you are a Windows user, you can also get the Windows version of Wondershare Data Recovery to perform external hard drive recovery, view more here: How to do external hard drive recovery on Windows computer.

Launch Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac, follow the next simple steps to perform external hard drive data recovery.

Step 1. Select a file type

To recover data from Mac external hard drive, you can select the option "All File Types" to start or you can select the specific file type such as photo, video, audio, email, document or others.

Step 2. Scan Lost Data from external hard drive

In this step you can select the drive letter for your external hard drive and click "Start" to search it.

Note: If you want to recover data from a formatted external hard drive on your Mac, you can go to deep scan if quick scan can't find your lost data.

Step 3. Restore Data from Max external hard drive

Now you can preview and check found contents in the window after the scan. Then select files you need and click "Recover" to save them on your Mac.

Note: To avoid recoverable files from being overwritten during the recovery, please do select a folder on your Mac to keep them.

Data Recovery Tips：

• Scanned out of the photos, documents, video, audio and other documents, display "preview failed", the document has been damaged, can not be restored.
• For the software does not support the preview of the file type, such as compressed files, installers, etc., only the final recovery, to know whether the file can be used normally.
• Data recovery is not a panacea which can’t guarantee 100% recovery successfully in any situation. Therefore, it is better for you to prevent data loss effectively with a good habit to backup your data timely.