How to recover data from any Mac. In this video, we'll learn how to remove any hard
drive from any Mac. The adapters that we'll need for this process. How to
recover the actual files with the adapters and hard drives and how to
restore permanently deleted files even if you emptied your trashcan. First let's
get some basic concepts out of the way. Inside of any Mac whether it's an iMac
or a MacBook there is a hard drive that has all of
your personal data and files stored on it. The hard drive can be easily removed
and hooked up to an adapter and plugged into a working MacBook so that you can
restore your data and your work files. On newer Macbooks after 2012, the actual
hard drive is a solid-state disk and can be easily removed with one screw and
pulled out of the socket. For this drive there's a special adapter that needs to
be plugged into the drive.
Once plugged into the adapter and then plugged into the SATA to the USB adapter,
we'll be able to plug this drive into any OS X computer and be able to
restore any of the files. On iMacs the hard drives are a little bigger and a
little more difficult to get to. You'll have to remove your glass and the LCD
panel but once the glass and the LCD panel have been removed you can also
access this hard drive as well. It's a 3.5 inch SATA hard drive.
You can plug in a SATA to USB converter cable for this hard drive.
Once you plug the converter cable into the drive you can plug it into any
working OS X computer.
Once plugged in, you can go to "go", "computer" and select your drive from the
list. Select users folder, select your specific user name and here you can
recover files from documents, from your downloads folder, from your pictures
folder or any other folder that's on the hard drive.
This process is exactly the same across all drives. Take a 2.5" inch standard
laptop SATA drive for instance
or an SSD drive from a MacBook Air or a more modern MacBook Pro. Once plugged
into the adapter and the converter cable plugged in, you can plug it in and
restore any of the data. Although this seems easy there are a lot of different
converters for different Macbook years. We'll go over a couple of converters.
Here, this specific converter will convert any 2012 only SSD. This one is
for 2013 to 2015 more modern MacBooks. This one's for 2010 to 2011 MacBook Airs.
For all other standard hard drives like iMac legacy hard drives that are 3.5"
inches and regular macbook legacy laptops that are 2.5" inches all we need
is the SATA to the USB cable. Click on the Apple logo and go to "about this Mac".
Here we can find out the specific Mac type, this is a laptop that's 15 inches
in 2010, using this example we can track down exactly the adapter that we need.
Navigate to www.appledollars.com through the Safari browser.
Select "troubleshooting", in the troubleshooting page, find data recovery,
scroll down here you'll find a table of all the Macs and all years and the
adapters that you will need. We have a 15-inch 2010 MacBook so we'll need just
the basic SATA to USB cable. Look up the converter that you need for your Mac.
Okay let's return to the www.appledollars.com homepage, now select Macbooks, your
macbook size and your macbook year. We'll need to watch the video on how to remove
the hard drive. Locate the hard drive video on the interactive video map and
watch the video. AppleDollars.com has the videos on how to remove any hard
drive from any Mac, so all Macs are covered. Once you watch the video on how
to remove your specific hard drive we're confident that you now have all the
knowledge and skills to be able to recover your data. Now let's learn how to
recover files that have been deleted from the trashcan. Here we have three
images on our desktop that we're using as an example.
We're going to select these three images
and throw them away into the trashcan, then we're going to right-click on the
trash can and empty it. The OS X will warn you that these files cannot be
returned. Go to Safari and navigate to appledollars.com select "troubleshooting"
now select "data recovery" scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Here
you'll find the link to "ease us data recovery" download, click that. This is a
free program. Go ahead open it up,
drag it into your Applications folder,
you can now open your "Applications" folder and execute the program.
You'll be prompted for your password.
In the interface of the program, go ahead and select all the file types that you wish
to recover, then click Next. Select the drive that you wish to recover your
files from. El Capitan is our native Drive, click scan, this might take several
minutes but it will scan your entire hard drive. Here it will hierarch the folders
that most of your files will be in. Your trash bin will be under users/trash. Here
you can select the files. You can also click preview, to see what files you
can restore. Go ahead select the files that you want to restore and click
recover. You will be asked where you want the recovery files to be placed. We
selected the desktop.
Click continue, the recovered files are placed in multiple folders on your
desktop. Now you can go ahead and exit out of the program. Locate the recovery
file folder, open it up and page through the subfolders. Now find the files that
have been recovered, open them up to make sure and check that they work. This
concludes our tutorial. Thank you for watching! Check out more videos at
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