

(*For versions of Mac OS older than 10.15.7 you will need to download older verisons of Disk Drill) Supported Mac OSs: Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. The free version can only preview files.Has plenty of options to search and filter the results of the scan.Restores data from Android and iOS devices.

Included for free in the basic version of Disk Drill are Recovery Vault and Guaranteed Recovery, two handy data protection features that allow Disk Drill to monitor your file deletion activity and retain metadata so that you can quickly and easily recover any deleted file with 100% success rate. Click Recover again to perform the recovery.Preview recoverable files and select a new storage location for restored data.Select the storage device, then click Search for lost data on the right side of the window.Launch the application and locate the storage device from which you want to recover deleted files.Download and install Disk Drill for Mac.If everything worked, you should now be able to boot into your drive as before and your data should be visible as normal. If your partition isn't found, select Deeper Search and wait for it to find your partitionĪssuming you only had the one Mac partition on the drive, use the arrow keys to toggle the found partition from D (deleted) to * (bootable)Ĭontinue to the next screen and Write the new partition table to the drive Select Quick search and wait for it to find your partition Once it's loaded, select your drive (prefer the /dev/rdisk option if it's available)Ĭonfirm that testdisk detected the drive's partition type correctly (more than likely it will be Intel) Install testdisk to a bootable USB and run it How to use TestDisk to recover your partition This means that the vast majority of your data is still there, even if you've deleted the partitions that make them visible. That had been previously applied to the disk. If the ALL parameter is not used, the first 1MBĪnd the last 1MB of the disk are zeroed. (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective Luckily for you you ran clean on its own, which only wipes the first and last MB of your drive: On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning informationĪnd hidden sector information are overwritten. Don't touch the drive - don't save anything to it, don't create any files on it, don't even open any files on it.
