Data Recovery from Seagate Hard Drives on Mac Mavericks
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.x and above (Including Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite)
Apple Macintosh OS X 10.9 is commonly known by the name Mavericks. This operating system can be used as desktop and server operating system at the same time. In October 2013, first version of this operating system has released. Mavericks is much more advanced than its predecessor, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Mac Mavericks is mainly focused on improved battery life and it provides better support for iCloud integration. This OS is compatible with Various Apple computers such as iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook Air, Xserve, MacBook Pro and MacBook. Mavericks operating system supports different types of hard drive brands like Seagate, WD and Toshiba.
Seagate is an ideal data storage option for computers running under Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Although Mavericks is a powerful operating system, it is vulnerable to data loss or deletion of files. Seagate hard drives are not free from this file loss while using it under Mavericks operating system. Suppose you have lost files from a Seagate hard drive which works under Mavericks operating system. What will you do for performing Seagate data recovery on Mac Mavericks?
Recover Seagate is a top-notch utility which can recover Seagate Backup Plus 4TB hard drive data on Mac Mavericks. This tool has an advanced scanning algorithm that can be utilized for the Seagate file recovery on Mac Mavericks without any complex procedures.
Causes for the loss or deletion of files from Seagate hard drive on Mac Mavericks
- Unexpected Deletion of Files: While deleting unwanted files from a Seagate hard drive running under Mac Mavericks, vital files may get deleted from it.
- Accidental Formatting: If you perform formatting of Seagate drive/ partition accidentally, it may cause the loss of all stored data from that drive/ partition.
- Errors during File Transfer: The file transfer is one of the processes where data loss chances are common. If a sudden power surge occurs while transfer of important data between a Seagate hard drive and other devices, it may result in the loss of data being transferred.
- Third Party Tools: Third party applications are capable of erasing the data stored on a Seagate hard drive. If such tools have downloaded from unreliable sources, chances of file loss increase.
Precaution to be taken before data recoevry from Mac Mavericks: Once you come across data loss from your Seagate hard drive, immediately stop using the drive to avoid overwriting of the files. Actually, when the files are deleted/lost from seagate hard drive, they are not gone permanently. Instead, only the memory space occupied by those files are freedup and made available for new files to be stored. Untill new files occupy that memory space, those lost/deleted files are easily recoverable witn Seagate Recovery Tool. So, better stop using the Seagate rive untill yuo get back your files.
Seagate Recovery Tool to Restore Data on Mac Mavericks
- For the Seagate data recovery on Mac Mavericks, Recover Seagate Utility can be applied to different Seagate hard drive types such as SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc. Using this tool, you can recover data from various models of Seagate as well.
- Various file systems supported by Mac Mavericks are also compatible with Recover Seagate Utility. Some instances of such file systems are FAT32, HFS, HFSX and HFSX.
- You can preview the recovered data from Seagate hard drive in a Mac styled GUI (Graphical User Interface) and such data can be sorted on file name, file extension, file size and file modified date.
- "Save Recovery Session" feature allows to save the entire data recovery process. And you can resume the recovery session any time later without rescanning your Seagate drive again and again. "Open Recovery Session" feature allows to resume the sam=ved recovery session that saves your valuable time.
Simple steps to recover data from Seagate hard drive on Mac Mavericks:
Step 1: Install and launch the demo version of the software on your Mac Mavericks machine. After successful installation of the software, launch it, and the Main window appears. Select "Recover Files" option from the main screen as shown in Figure A.
Figure A: Welcome Page
Step 2: To retrieve deleted files, select "Recover Deleted Files" option from the screen that is shown in Figure B and proceed.
Figure B: Select recover deleted files
Step 3: Select the Seagate Mac drive from which you want to retrieve deleted files/folders and then click on "Next" as shown in Figure C.
Figure C: Select The volume.
Step 4: Then select appropriate file types, which you want to retrieve and click on "Next" button as shown in figure D.
Figure D: Select file type.
Step 5: After recovery process is completed, the software will display restored files as shown in Figure E. You can view the restored files using the "Preview" option.
Figure E : Select file type.
