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"These days I copy files from an old Mac hard drive to my new hard drive and I erase the old hard drive by using Disk Utility – Erase function, not yet backup all the files. Can your software recover lost files from the old, erased Mac hard drive? I just want to the files back. I will appreciate it if you can tell me how to recover lost files from erased Mac hard drive." – Kolard Lind

Recover Lost Files after Erasing Mac Hard Drive

Why people erase Mac hard drive data? For more disk space, pricy data protection, or other reasons? No matter what the reason that people erase Mac hard drive is, the files which are stored on the drive will be removed from the hard drive after erasing the hard drive. If you want to recover lost files after erasing Mac hard drive, you have to use a third-party Mac data recovery tool. DoYourData Mac data recovery software – Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Professional can help you to completely recover lost files after erasing Mac hard drive.

Before getting your files back from an erased Mac hard drive, please don't write new data to the drive to protect the original data from being overwritten. Quickly download Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Professional from out site and install it on your Mac. Two recovery modes are available for recovering lost files after erasing Mac hard drive. You can try the quick scan at first to test it. If you can't find the files after quick scan, you can try deep scan to scan the erased hard drive deeply. It takes a long time, and will find much more files.

Recover Lost Files after Erasing Mac Hard Drive

After erasing Mac hard drive with Disk Utility, you can use Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Professional to get files back. It is powerful yet very easy simple to use, enabling you to recover lost files after erasing Mac hard drive within three steps.

Step 1: Select file types.

The software can recover all types of lost files from erased Mac hard drive. But it may take a long time to scan the drive. If you only want to recover a certain type of file, select it.

Recover Lost Files after Erasing Mac Hard Drive

Step 2: Select a Mac hard drive to scan.

Select the erased Mac hard drive to start scanning.

Recover Lost Files after Erasing Mac Hard Drive

Step 3: Preview and recovery.

Preview the files and save them on your Mac.

Recover Lost Files after Erasing Mac Hard Drive

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Professional is certainly not only the tool that can recover lost files after erasing Mac hard drive. But compared other tools, Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Professional is more powerful and easier to use. The deep scan recovery mode will produce better result when you are going to use it to recover lost files after erasing Mac hard drive.

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Written & Updated by Justin Kenny

Justin Kenny is a writer & editor of DoYourData. He joined DoYourData in 2016 and focuses on writing articles about Windows data recovery, Mac data recovery, external device data recovery, hard drive clone, data erasure, Mac cleanup, computer issue fixes, etc. He is a super fan of Apple devices and is big on testing new digital device and system utility software.

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