If you choose the whole drive, Disk Drill will use Deep Scan to analyze the whole disk as one entity with a raw file system, meaning itll analyze every bit of it in a binary mode.

When you need to recover files from a Mac hard drive either internal or external, Disk Drill can help you get your data back quickly.

However, as long as the hard drive can be mounted onto Mac OS X, even with physical damage on the drive, Disk Drill can help Depending on the seriousness of the disaster, you might be able to see some files and folders on your hard drive, or the disk may become not partitioned, formatted, corrupted, etc.

The good news is that Disk Drill can help you to find lost partitions, rebuild HFS catalog files and recover the lost data.

Below is an overview of the steps you can take with our hard drive recovery software for Mac.

For detailed tutorials, see How to Install Disk Drill and How to Recover Lost Files with Disk Drill Basic in our Knowledgebase.

Note that there are special steps you should take if you are trying to recover files from your Macs internal hard drive.

Also, disk physical damage may substantially lower the success rate of the hard drive recovery.

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On the first launch you will need to install the new driver, which is required for correct hard drive recovery on Mac OS X.

If the target disk got bad sectors, or electronic controller fails in some operations, its not much that can be done by Disk Drill with data stored in affected disk areas.

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However, before that happens, if you suspect an improper disk behavior, ticking sounds, slow readwrite operations, we recommend using Disk Drills supplemental free tool that helps anyone create a byte-to-byte disk image in a DMG (or ISO) format.

The unique aspect of the byte-to-byte backups is the fact they actually store the contents of data sectors that were marked as empty, not occupied by data.

Yes, you get it right, the sectors where your lost data can still reside.

Once the backup disk image is created, you may start your hard drive recovery from the image instead of the real hardware.

This will ensure the final failure will not occur while Deep Scanning, more data stays safe and potentially recoverable.

If you cannot connect the hard drive with lost data to another computer and run the recovery there, we recommend creating a bootable data recovery drive and running Disk Drill off it.

The Create boot drive wizard will guide you through the process.

It takes a few minutes to maximize your data recovery chances.

If creating a bootable Mac USB drive is not an option, proceed in a regular way.

Your selected drive will be displayed in Disk Drills list of volumes available for recovery.

Clicking on the drive lets you view specific partitions on the disk.

Be advised that recovering an SSD requires additional steps when performing the recovery which we outline in the FAQs at the end of this page.

The ones available to you will be determined by the file system of the hard drive and whether it is formatted at all or not.

You can choose to scan the entire drive or just one partition.

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