How to Recover your Data on a Mac Drive - Part One

Use all these tips at your own risk

Part Two of the Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQ_nSp_A4I
Links:

Video on how to make a boot Disk in Yosemite and El Capitan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRy9IdV53wg

Lacie Drives


Applications Links
Filesalvage

http://www.subrosasoft.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=201&products_id=1&zenid=c25ed72179ce8dcefdc7ee1253a211ea

Data Rescue and Drive Genius
https://www.prosofteng.com/downloads/


Disk Warrior
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/


Techtool and Checkmate
https://www.micromat.com/products/techtool-pro

Step 1 - Determine if the disk is dead
and Find a way to boot




a - Recovery partition
Command – R

b - Thumb drive with an OS
diskmakerx

c - External drive with an OS
(buy one on Ebay) $16.00

Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 Bootable USB http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/281772773750?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82



Hold down the option Key to select the Thumb Drive


d - Single user mode
Command (⌘)-S




d - Zap your PRAM
Option-Command (⌘)-P-R




D - Start-up in safe mode
Hold the shift key on boot




E - Eject any drives
Hold the mouse or trackpad button




Step 2 - Run Disk Utility




Step 3 - Try Recovery Utilities
Lacie rugged drives




how to recover data from hard disk

If all else fails try sending it to a
hard drive data recovery services

hard drive data recovery - Data Rescue