Retrieve Data from Corrupted Mac External Hard Drive

External hard drives are the storage media available for computer professionals and other users who use Macintosh systems and need more space to store the data. The external hard drive is basically used to store large amount of information as back up so that you can access the files from the external hard drive in case if data loss scenarios occur on Mac system.

Audio files, video files, images, executable files, documents and other file formats are stored in external hard drive and accessed without any trouble. Some situations may arise in which the external hard drive connected to Mac OS gets corrupted, blocking access to all the files that are saved on it. What to do now? Are those files permanently lost? Can I get back the data that was saved on the external hard drive? Yes of-course you can. Just calm yourself! There is no need to get tensed! Just the external hard drive is corrupted, so the best option for you is to follow effective hard drive data recovery application that can easily take care of corrupted external hard drive.

Various reasons that lead to corruption of external hard drive on Mac system are:

• Malware Infection: As a result of virus infection, there are chances that the external hard drive that is connected to Mac operating system gets corrupted as a result of which all the files that were saved in it becomes inaccessible to the user
• Interruption during format process: Interruptions when the format process is going on can lead to corruption of the external hard drive. Therefore the format process must be carried out without any interruption else the external hard drive may get damaged
• Accidental Removal: Removing external hard drive from the Mac computer when the read or write process is being carried out or when the user is previewing files from the external hard drive can lead to its corruption which in turn blocks access to entire information on external HDD

Just calm yourself! There is no need to get tensed when your external hard disk get s damaged due to any of the above reasons! Just the external hard drive is corrupted, best option to choose is to employ any effective Mac external hard drive data recovery application that can recover data from corrupted external hard drive on Macintosh system.

Damaged external hard drive recovery on Mac OS X

Yodot Mac Data Recovery tool can be considered as the best application that can be applied for restoring data from corrupt external hard drive which is connected to Mac computer. With the inclusion of powerful scanning engines, the user can easily get back more than 300 types of files without missing even a single one. Yodot Mac Data Recovery effectively supports the recovery of data from HFS+, HFSX, FAT drives respectively. The Disk image option allows us to create disk images of external hard drive containing bad sectors and later you can get data from these disk images quite easily with the help of simple options provided to you on Yodot Mac Data Recovery Application.

Procedure to get data from damaged external hard drive on Mac:

• Download and install Yodot Mac Data Recovery application on the system by logging in as local system administrator
• After the completion of the installation process, connect the corrupt external hard drive to Mac computer
• Now, launch the application and follow the instructions that are provided on the application
• In the next window, you will get two options namely Volumes Recovery and Formatted/ Re-formatted Recovery options
• Click on Volumes Recovery and proceed to the next screen where the list of logical drives as well as external drives connected to the system will be shown to you
• Select the corrupted external hard drive and press on the next button, where you can see the list of file extensions that can be selected
• After selecting the type of files that have to be restored, click the Next button that will begin the recovery process
• On conclusion of the scanning process, the restored files are listed in a Data View and File Type View
• Select the files that have to be saved on the particular destination location as available to the host Mac operating system user

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