Do you use a Western Digital hard drive or other external storage product from this provider? A recent reformat, file removal, or other complication is not as big of a catastrophe as most individuals would initially think. Every hard drive has what is called ‘physical storage space’ that is accessed via a logical address table. Why is this important? This information makes it easy to understand what exactly happens when files say goodbye on a hard drive.
The operating system uses the address any time you open or search for a file on the drive. When something is removed, whether on accident or purpose, it remains on the physical space but it cannot be located by the computer’s operating system. So if a file is deleted or you experience a loss due to reformatting or some other issue, nothing is actually gone until some other action results in that file being overwritten. Phew, now isn’t that good to know!
If you use a Western Digital product for external storage, it is not a difficult process to restore data. Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is a utility for retrieval of lost, deleted or formatted over files from any Mac computer or in this case an external device. To perform recovery, download this
Mac data recovery HQ Western Digital data recovery Mac software and then follow the steps outlined in the video tutorial upon installation.
