When using MAC, sudden power outage will bring us terrible losses, and hard drive in MAC will bear the heaviest damage. Hard drive is very likely to be damaged when power is suddenly broken. At this time, partition management tool will show the damaged partition with an unrecognized mark. To use this partition, you need to format it. But formatting operation will lead to all data being deleted. Therefore, you need to recover lost MAC data from damaged MAC partitions with MAC data recovery software before formatting. If you have already formatted the partition before recovery, can lost data still be recovered? In fact, as long as we have the help of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, we can easily perform MAC data recovery.

Formatting is a common operation when managing MAC. It can clean all data in the partition as well as convert file system and change partition label, etc. Therefore, when MAC partition is damaged, you can perform formatting operation to restore it. The only disadvantage of formatting is that it cleans all data in the partition. However, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery has greatly made up this disadvantage. When you find partition is damaged, you can format the partition freely. MiniTool Mac Data Recovery will help you recover lost MAC data easily. No matter you recover lost MAC data before or after formatting, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can perfectly finish its duty. Let me show you the two situations of MAC data recovery:

1. Recover MAC partitions before formatting
MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is a piece of multi-functional MAC data recovery software. It provides users with different functional modules aiming at different situations of data loss.



To recover MAC partitions, select "Damaged Partition Recovery" functional module in this interface.



In this list of partitions, select the damaged partition, and then click "Open" button at left to scan the partition quickly. Notice: even "Open" helps you scan the partition, but "Full Scan" has better efficiency of scanning.



So far you can see the lost data in damaged partition are successfully found. You only need to check files you need to recover, and then click "Save Files" button to save them to an appointed location to finish recovering MAC partitions data.

2. Recover MAC partitions after formatting
To recover MAC partitions data after formatting, the operations are exactly the same with above. You also need "Damaged Partition Recovery" functional module.



The only difference in the process is that target partition has turned normal instead of unrecognized. No matter the file system of damaged partition is FAT or HFS+, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can easily perform data recovery to it. Through these operations, we can get the following result:



Through comparison, we can see the results of two situations are all the same. It proves that MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can recover data from both damaged partition and formatted partition. In addition, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can recover data from lost partition. For more detailed operation instruction, please visit official website: http://www.mac-data-recover.com.