A 2011 MacBook Pro was recently passed down in my family. Someone managed to delete everything, software and all files (I think they were trying to delete Microsoft Word?) and there is nothing to be found.
No time machine back up.
What's the best option to try to recover data?
And how in the world does a high school girl manage to do this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Hello kebmocampbell and welcome to Apple Support Communities,
So is it still able to boot into OSX?
Was the drive erased? If it was a single pass erasure it might be retrievable.
You'll have to connect the computer to another Mac:
1-Using FireWire and Target mode:
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode - Apple Support
2- Pull the hard drive and use a "dongle" or external case to try to read it from another Mac.
Either way you'll try to retrieve the data using Data Rescue IV:
My Mac Book Pro hard drive has crashed and I'm in the process of replacing it. However, I had a lot of important data on that hard drive that he needs recovered. Then I found uFlysoft Data Recovery software that recovers data from corrupt/bad hard drives. And fully supported forHFS/ NTFS/FAT32 mac files. Thanks!
Hi
General principals
Do not try to write recovered files to formatted disk
You need another disk to recover files to
After formatting you loose index containing file names
You get r00001.jpg, r00002.jpg. ...
Long files which are fragmented are much more difficult to recover intact
For Linux or ntfs Windows I would use testdisk . Photo recovery suite from
CgSecurity.org
But it does not seem to support OS/X format
There are some recovery programs in trial versions
Either only recovers limited amount of data
Or shows what could be recovered if you buy a licence on line
One step professional may take is to clone the drive and run different recovery programs on the cloned drive. This is more important if drive has bad sectors .
http://www.easeus.com/mac/data-recovery-mac/
This is a well known data recovery software company for windows & Mac
Both free & pay for version
Best of luck
Regards
Regards
Mike Barnes
kebmocampbell wrote:
And how in the world does a high school girl manage to do this?
Not by accident. It takes a series of steps to accomplish.
Recovering data from formatted hard drive
