How to Recover Files from Formatted Drive on Mac

Have you ever formatted a drive say Macintosh HD or external hard disk on your Mac machine and wondered if there is a way to recover files from the reformatted device right on your Mac? Common belief may quickly say no but the REAL answer is YES, you have great possibility to perform format recovery on Mac. What you need to do is quite simple – get a Mac formatted recovery program.

 

Data Recovery for Mac is such Mac format recovery tool which works under OS X (10.5 leopard, 10.6 snow leopard and newly 10.7 lion) and is capable of recovering data (documents, pictures, videos, audio and emails etc.) loss due to accidental format or format error (‘the drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?’) and many more scenarios.

  • Retrieve files from the formatted Macintosh HD.
  • Recover data from formatted USB flash on Macbook.
  • Restore documents and photos lost from external hard dive due to format.
  • Get back inaccessible files from a drive with format error message.
  • And more formatted drive recovery cases.

Why format recovery is possible even on Mac OS X?

As a matter of fact, format option won’t erase all data on the drive (Mac HDD or external drive). What you deleted is ONLY that surface information recorded in the file system (HFS+ or FAT etc), the real data is still intact here. But those formatted data is pretty weak to be overwritten by new saved data. So when you formatted a drive THE FIRST THING you should to stop pushing more files on it until the files are recovered with this mac formatted recovery software. Just remember this all the time.

How to Achieve Format Recovery on Mac OS X – the Tutorial

To start with, you should do some connection work. If you need to recover formatted Mac HDD, simply install the recovery tool. If what you formatted is external drive (usb pen drive, memory card, memory stick etc), connect the device to you Mac machine first and then install the format recovery program.

 

STEP 1: Choose a recovery mode. For format recovery for Mac, please choose 'Formatted Media / Lost File Recovery' option.


STEP 2: Choose the formatted drive. There will be several logical drives shown on the interface, please highlight the one which you want to recover formatted files from and then click 'Continue' button.


STEP 3: Preview found files and recover. There will be a lot files (such as docs, media files and emails etc) found with the program. Those are exactly what has been lost due to accidental format. Preview, highlight them and click 'Recover' button.

For more details about Data Recovery Software Product and the illustration of How to Recover Formatted Files from Storage Media, please refer to:


Data Recovery for Windows Users

Data Recovery for Mac OS X Users