Sunday, November 22, 2015

Best Way to Recover Deleted Files from an External Hard Drive on Mac Free

External hard drives are gaining popularity due to the characters of large capacities, high speed, portability, ease of use, flexibility and so on. Thus, an increasing number of people use external hard drives to save data or share files with others today. However, when they deal with data from external hard drives on computers, data loss always occurs. So here is the question: how can Mac users recover deleted files from an external hard drive? In this article, users will be given a detailed explanation.

Generally speaking, professional Mac data recovery software can help users to recover deleted files on Mac OS. And MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is such a free one. This data recovery software can be applied on Mac OS X 10.5 and above, and supports most commonly used file systems like FAT32, NTFS and HFS+, making it possible to undelete files from an external hard drive on Mac free.

How to Recover Deleted Files from External Hard Drive on Mac Free
Preparatory work:
1.         Connect the external hard drive to Mac.
2.         Download MiniTool Mac Data Recovery.

Step l. Launch MiniTool Mac Data Recovery and users will see the main interface shown below. Choose Undelete Recovery module to go on since the file system of external hard drive is FAT32.

Note: If users want to recover deleted files from HFS+ partition, they need to choose Damaged Partition Recovery


Step 2. In this part, users should select the partition that represents the external hard drive and then click Scan.


Step 3. Choose all desired files and click Save button. At last, select a safe place to store the recovered files. All deleted files will be restored in a minute.


Note: The Demo Version of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery has 1MB data restoration limit, so users should click the Upgrade button to get a personal license.


Now the tutorial on recovering deleted files from external hard drive on Mac free is finished. Users can download this free Mac data recovery software to have a try if necessary.

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