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How to recover files existed prior to formatting and reinstalling OSX on an internal hard drive?

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I recently formatted the internal hard drive och my MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch, Early 2015 (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500 GB) and reinstalled a fresh copy of macOSX Monterey 12.3.1. The MacBook had the same OSX before formatting.


Now I need to recover some very important files which existed prior to formatting on the internal hard drive.


When I use an external drive as the startup disk and run utilities such as Disk Drill, they can only find files after reinstalling of the OSX.


Should I remove the internal SSD, put it in an external box and run the same utilities from a different Mac? Does it help?


Or there is a more appropriate recovering application or method which I can apply without needing to remove the internal drive?


Thank you in advance! 


/Abedi

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Apr 16, 2022 7:15 AM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2022 7:19 AM

If you formatted the drive, all data that was on the drive is gone. Surely you created a data backup before formatting the drive. If not, your data is gone.

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