Hard-drives failures in any OS are never fun but they are a fact of today fast growing technology life whether you use a PC or Mac. Users often face problem when their hard-drive create problem after using many years, and sometimes they wind up with a HD, which goes kaput after using few months (say 6-7 months).
So, if you are a Mac users and facing problems related to your hard-drive, then here we are going to discuss with you a very simple and effective method of recovering all the deleted files and folder from a failing Mac hard-drive.
In the simple term, you are simply implementing a file transfer between 2 different drives. But, at the same time it is important to pick the best secondary data storage mediums, which backup your data easily without any issue. Thankfully, data backup redundancy is very easy to do using Time Machine and it only requires 2 external drives to be connected with the Mac OS. The below mentioned method work perfectly for a boot-drive as well, but for getting the good results you need to boot the Mac from a separate USB boot-drive.
Check a Hard-Drive Failure Problem
A hard-drive failure can be checked in a number of different ways. In the worst case, you will hear abnormal sounds from your failing hard-drive. A failing drive may eject itself and OS X can also provide some signals when a HD will not function properly. Sometimes, when you try to connect a drive, it will forcibly mount in the ‘Read only’ mode.
Sometimes, Disk Utility won’t be able to repair the hard-drive and you will be asked to take data backup and then reformat the drive. Whether, you format the drive or not, it is going to matter a lot in the long run. For example, a ‘logical failure’ is the result of the file system corruption and ‘mechanical failure’ implies physical components of the hard-drive got damaged.
1. Power off the failing hard-drive and eject it
Simply keep the drive power off and eject it from your Mac OS X. Also, try to avoid it to reconnect until you are ready to perform all the major file transfer tasks. You don’t need to put the extra pressure on the failing drive by using it more. At the same time, you should also need to look from a data recovery mindset, it is best to leave the hard-drive powered off until, all the files come to new HD.
2. Get a new Mac drive and format or partition it
First buy a brand new drive as soon as possible. You can easily buy huge data storage drive at great prices. After buying the drive, do the following task:
Once the new drive is ready to use, connect it to your Mac OS. Now, for powering up the failing drive, simply connect it to your Mac system and then start copying your drive from failing drive to new HD. To do this, simply open a Finder window with both old and new drive, select all the data from old drive and then drag-drop to new drive for file transfer.
This data transfer process data time to complete, so be prepared to wait for it. You can also do some other tasks, while the data transfer process completes. Since waiting for hours is less useful as compared to do some other important tasks. You didn’t surprise if it takes more than 12 hours for each of the 1 TB of data transfer.
Imp.: If the data backup in your Time-Machine is on, then simply turn off it in order to prevent further data writing on the failing drive.
Final Conclusion:
If during the data transfer process, copy of data is failing at any point or the drive continues to unmount itself randomly, you can use 3rd party software like Stellar Volume Optimizer. This software will cost only $49 and helps you to recover the data from a failing HD where the standard data transfer method fails. If all the options fail, then go with some professional data recovery software, which provides data recovery option. Such services are never cheap, but they will retrieve your deleted data within few hours.
So, if you are a Mac users and facing problems related to your hard-drive, then here we are going to discuss with you a very simple and effective method of recovering all the deleted files and folder from a failing Mac hard-drive.
In the simple term, you are simply implementing a file transfer between 2 different drives. But, at the same time it is important to pick the best secondary data storage mediums, which backup your data easily without any issue. Thankfully, data backup redundancy is very easy to do using Time Machine and it only requires 2 external drives to be connected with the Mac OS. The below mentioned method work perfectly for a boot-drive as well, but for getting the good results you need to boot the Mac from a separate USB boot-drive.
Check a Hard-Drive Failure Problem
A hard-drive failure can be checked in a number of different ways. In the worst case, you will hear abnormal sounds from your failing hard-drive. A failing drive may eject itself and OS X can also provide some signals when a HD will not function properly. Sometimes, when you try to connect a drive, it will forcibly mount in the ‘Read only’ mode.
Sometimes, Disk Utility won’t be able to repair the hard-drive and you will be asked to take data backup and then reformat the drive. Whether, you format the drive or not, it is going to matter a lot in the long run. For example, a ‘logical failure’ is the result of the file system corruption and ‘mechanical failure’ implies physical components of the hard-drive got damaged.
1. Power off the failing hard-drive and eject it
Simply keep the drive power off and eject it from your Mac OS X. Also, try to avoid it to reconnect until you are ready to perform all the major file transfer tasks. You don’t need to put the extra pressure on the failing drive by using it more. At the same time, you should also need to look from a data recovery mindset, it is best to leave the hard-drive powered off until, all the files come to new HD.
2. Get a new Mac drive and format or partition it
First buy a brand new drive as soon as possible. You can easily buy huge data storage drive at great prices. After buying the drive, do the following task:
- Format the drive to make it Mac compatible
- If the previous drive was partitioned, then also partition the new drive
Once the new drive is ready to use, connect it to your Mac OS. Now, for powering up the failing drive, simply connect it to your Mac system and then start copying your drive from failing drive to new HD. To do this, simply open a Finder window with both old and new drive, select all the data from old drive and then drag-drop to new drive for file transfer.
This data transfer process data time to complete, so be prepared to wait for it. You can also do some other tasks, while the data transfer process completes. Since waiting for hours is less useful as compared to do some other important tasks. You didn’t surprise if it takes more than 12 hours for each of the 1 TB of data transfer.
Imp.: If the data backup in your Time-Machine is on, then simply turn off it in order to prevent further data writing on the failing drive.
Final Conclusion:
If during the data transfer process, copy of data is failing at any point or the drive continues to unmount itself randomly, you can use 3rd party software like Stellar Volume Optimizer. This software will cost only $49 and helps you to recover the data from a failing HD where the standard data transfer method fails. If all the options fail, then go with some professional data recovery software, which provides data recovery option. Such services are never cheap, but they will retrieve your deleted data within few hours.