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Lost Partition Recovery

About "Lost Partition Recovery" Module

Do you know how to recover files and data from lost partition with the help of software? We will show you how to achieve lost partition recovery with MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. The powerful "Lost Partition Recovery" function of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is specially designed to recover data from deleted or lost partition on Mac computer from different kinds of storage devices, such as computer hard disk, external hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive, SD card and more.

However, if the target partition still exists on Mac computer and can be seen, you can take advantage of the professional "Damaged Partition Recovery" function in MiniTool Mac Data Recovery software to achieve data recovery from this damaged partition.

No matter how well you protect your computer or storage device, sometimes disasters happen unfortunately. Let’s first check the common causes of lost partitions.

How does a partition get lost? There are some factors that cause a partition missing.

The most common cause of partition loss is malware or virus infection. If your computer is attacked by some viruses, it may attack the Master Boot Record (MBR) and overwrite the partition data. Then the partition may get lost and all data on it may be also lost.

The second cause may be the data corruption. Sometimes if the partition table is damaged because of some wrong operations or the computer file system is corrupted, it may lead to a lost partition.

Still, if the hard drive has some bad sectors, it may not be able to function correctly and may prevent you from accessing a partition.

A sudden power outage may make a partition inaccessible. And some of you may also accidentally delete a partition without being aware of.

No matter what causes the lost/deleted partition issue. Good news is that you can use MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to easily recover lost/deleted partition on Mac and get back the lost data with no hassle.

How to Recover Data by Using "Lost Partition Recovery" Module

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery provides a Lost Partition Recovery module especially designed to help you recover data and files from lost or deleted partitions on Mac computer.

In the beginning, download and install MiniTool Mac Data Recovery (100% clean) on your Mac computer (macOS 10.5 or higher is supported). All popular Mac computers incl. iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro/Mini, etc. are supported.

After you’ve installed this best lost partition recovery software, launch it.

Step 1. Choose Lost Partition Recovery function.

When you see the main interface of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, you can click Lost Partition Recovery module.

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Step 2. Select the hard drive which contains lost partition.

Now you can see all connected and detected hard disk drives are displayed in the window. You can choose the target disk you’d like to recover lost partitions from.

Next you can click the orange Full Scan button at the bottom-right, and this best partition recovery software Mac will set off scanning the chosen hard disk for lost and deleted partitions.

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Step 3. Recover Lost Partition Data.

After the full scan process is completed, all found partitions including normal, lost, deleted partitions on the target disk will be listed in the left column.

You can select one partition, and then all files saved in the partition will appear in the middle of the interface. You can browse from the recovered files and folders to find your needed files, and tick them.

You can click Find at the toolbar to search the target file by name. You can also click Filter icon to narrow down the range of files and filter the scan result by file extension, date, size and more. You can also preview the file to check if it is the one you want.

After you choose needed files, then you can click Save button to proceed to the next step.

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At last, you can choose a safe place to save the chosen files in the lost partition and click OK to carry out all pending process. The destination folder should be a new path different from the original path to avoid data overwriting.

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With MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, you can easily recover lost/deleted partition and restore data and files from the lost partition on your Mac computer.