Wednesday 6 May 2015

How to Recover Data in Mac from External Hard Drive?

In today fast growing world, hard drive is the most important part of any OS, whether it is Mac, Windows or any other. Main reason for the importance of hard drive is their ability of storing huge amount of data within quick period of time.

Do you know a hard drive rotates at the speed of 4000 to 8000 revolutions per second for providing quick access of the data stored into it? But, at the same time there are certain disadvantages which might prove costly for a Mac user. One of the most common one is the data loss from the hard drive.
Main reasons for data loss:

  • Mac shut down abruptly
  • Corruption of hard drives
  • Files emptied from trash
  • Accidental drive erasing
  • Unmounted Mac drive

But, today majority of the people prefer to use external hard drives as a supplementary data storage device for Mac OS. It is always beneficial for a Mac user to keep all their important data so that he/she can bring all the photo, video etc. from one place to another easily. Problem comes when you accidentally delete some data from your external hard drive. It might be possible that your data is lost from your external hard drive or it may become corrupted in the external hard drive?

When a Mac user faces such data loss problems, then he/she ask: Is there any Mac related software which can perform Mac external hard drive recovery? In such cases, Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery software comes handy.

Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery helps the Mac user in regaining the lost files, deleted and corrupted data from external hard drive. Below are the various system file formats which this software supports:


  • HFS, HFS+ (Apple file system)
  • FAT, ExFAT (Common format for any external hard drive)
  • NTFS (Window based file system)


How to use Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery to Recover Lost Data from External Hard Drive:

  1. The very first thing which you need to do is downloading and installs the software.
  2. Now, connect your external hard drive to the Mac OS X.
  3. When you double-click on the Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recover icon, a GUI will appear in front of you.
  4. In step 4, click on the blue button to proceed further.
  5. Here, you need to select the right option for external hard drive recovery for Mac OS. If your data is deleted from your hard drive, then select “Deleted Recovery” otherwise, select “Formatted Media”. 
  6. After selecting the right recovery option, you need to select your hard drive for scanning. 
  7. Once you complete the step 6, software scans the complete hard drive and gives a preview of your images, video, files etc. 
  8. If you are a registered user of this software, then it can also provide you an option through which you can recover all your deleted files at any desired location.

Final conclusion: Once you perform all the above mentioned step, your lost data from the external hard drive will be regain within few minutes.