Restore Data from Portable Hard Drive on Mac

You have connected portable hard drive to your Mac computer to create one more partition on it. As you were not aware of creating partition using “Disk Utility”, you have downloaded third party utility to create Volume from it. Now after creating a volume, the existing volume of portable hard drive in which you have stored important data showed an error message that ‘the volume is corrupted and need to repair’. You followed each and every step that system showed to repair Volume but failed. At such point, you might regret for losing huge amount of data.

However, don’t be sad!!! Data present in Portable hard drive can be easily restored with the usage of reliable Mac data recovery software. Above situation occurred because you have used unreliable third party utility to create volume on your portable hard drive. Although, third party utility helps to create volume on your Portable hard drive, sometimes it might corrupt existing volume and make its data inaccessible.

Other reasons behind loss of data from Portable hard drive on Mac are:

  • Logical Failure: When your Portable hard drive is about to fail, it will start producing clicking noises. So, one should take backup of files when they hear clicking noise from portable hard drive. If you make any delay then Portable hard drive may fail to mount on your Mac computer and its entire data becomes inaccessible
  • Accidentally Formatting: In case memory of your Portable hard drive is more, you can create two or more partitions on portable hard drive and manage your data. However, at the time of formatting volume containing not needed files, you might mistakenly give command to format volume holding important files and folders
  • Improper Ejection: The best way to eject portable hard drive from your Mac computer is right clicking on the drive and selecting “Eject” option. Users who are aware of this method use it precisely where as few users directly pull out cable of portable hard drive. This will either remove few files or corrupt entire portable hard drive used on Mac
  • Format Error: If you connect Mac compatible Portable hard drive to Windows computer, then it fails to recognize its file system and displays error message that portable drive needs to be formatted. Users may sometimes accidentally click on “Format” option instead of “Cancel”. It will remove complete data from portable hard drive and leave it empty

Many professional experts recommend running Time machine tool whenever you connect portable hard drive to your Mac computer. But some users do not take it seriously and lose their data by facing any of above cause. Although it is heartbreaking truth to realize that you have lost your data from portable hard drive, the good thing to know is you can restore entire data from portable hard drive by downloading promising data recovery software on Mac computer.

Portable hard drive recovery tool for Mac system:

Yodot Mac Data Recovery software will deeply examine your Portable hard drive and extracts lost data on Mac. It will show each and every step in detail so that you don’t face difficulties while attempting to regain your files from portable hard drive. It will show estimated recovery speed based on the files you select or amount of data lost from portable hard drive. To save your files, it has already listed recoverable file types such as documents, pictures, archives, music, videos, etc. You just have to click upon specific files to expand the extensions of restorable files. It also facilitate control for advanced users which define scan area and also helps bypassing bad sectors or region of portable hard drive having any sort of damages. It will show recovered files along with start time and elapsed time of scanning. You are able to retrieve data from Samsung S2 Portable hard drive, Buffalo, IoSafe, Sony, Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, LaCie, Transcend, Dell, Apricorn, Porsche design, Hitachi, promise Pegasus, Kingston and many other brands which works compatible with Mac OS X versions Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks operating systems.

Download Data Recovery for Windows Download Data Recovery for Mac

Directions to software for recovering data from portable hard drive:

  • Download Yodot Mac Data Recovery software and install it to your Mac computer
  • Connect portable hard drive to your Mac system in which you have downloaded the application
  • Run the application and go as per the instructions given on-screen
  • Main screen displays two options which are “Volume Recovery” and “Formatted / Reformatted”
  • Select anyone based on situation you have come across
  • Permit the application to scan the drive and choose recoverable files using two view types which are “Data View” and “File Type View”
  • Preview media files like photos, videos and music for confirmation and at last save recovered files in safe destination

Necessary Tips:

  • Never connect Mac compatible portable hard drive to Windows computer
  • Always eject portable hard drive by clicking on “Safely Remove hard drive” option on your Mac computer

Related Articles

Useful links

Support

Resources

Follow us on Social Media