Iomega External Hard Drive Data Recovery on Mac OS

Iomega external hard drives are popular among the computer users due its incredible features and reliability. These external hard drives have several models and are available in wide range of storage capacities. Iomega external hard disks are mainly used for data backup purpose, as it is portable and can retain data for a long time without any power supply. Even though this device is compact and light weight, you could still save huge amount of data on it. Because of its high accessibility and portability, you may carry your important files everywhere you go and can access it on any computer whether it is Mac or Windows. Despite you are systematic and caring about it, data loss from Iomega external hard drives can occur at any instant of time and it is quite frequent.

Circumstances liable for data loss from Iomega external hard drive are:

• The Iomega external hard disk can get physically damaged due to the negligence of the user when they drop it
• The Iomega external hard drive may be overheated due to lack of sufficient ventilation techniques
• Unexpected system shutdown or power fluctuation while copying files from Iomega external hard drive to the computer
• Pulling out USB cable forcefully while transferring files from your Iomega external hard drive to Mac computer
• Accidentally formatting Iomega external hard drive without keeping its backup
• Data present in Iomega external hard drive becomes inaccessible in the event of its file system corruption
• Using same external drive on different operating systems may results in inaccessibility external hard drive

However, the physical damage of external hard drive can be solved with the help of a professional hard drive service center. But if the reason for data loss is logical damage, then you make use of powerful data recovery software like Yodot Mac data recovery to get back your lost data.

Iomega portable hard drive recovery software

Yodot Mac Data Recovery is highly appreciated software that can be used to get back missing data from Iomega external hard disk drive. It performs a signature search to locate and extract files or folders that have been deleted or lost from Iomega external hard disk on Mac OS X machine. This can be used to rescue lost files after you have deleted, lost, formatted, reformatted volumes or re-partitioned Iomega external hard drive. It supports recovery of data from variety of external hard drive brands like Western Digital, LaCie, Seagate, FireWire Drives, etc on Mac machines that runs on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion operating systems.

Procedure to perform data recovery from Iomega external HDD:

• Download Yodot Mac Data Recovery application and install the software on a healthy Mac machine
• Connect Iomega external hard drive and allow the device to get detected
• The main screen of the software displays two options, “Volume Recovery” and “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery”
• Choose the option based on your data loss situation
• The recovery software scans the hard drive and displays all the internal and external volumes
• Select the Volume from where data need to be recovered and click “Next”
• Two scanning options will appear from the main screen, Standard Scan and Advanced Scan choose as per the scenario
• The application scans the selected Volume and displays both deleted and lost data
• Choose the deleted and lost files which you need to retrieve back and click on “Next” button
• The tool also allows you to preview the recovered files before saving
• At last, save the recovered files to your desired storage drive