MacBook Data Recovery: Top 3 Ways to Restore Your Data

In this video tutorial we will discover the 3 ways to recover data from your MacBook 💻.

Timestamps:
Way 1: Professional Data Recovery Service 01:08
Way 2: Time Machine Backup & Tutorial 02:28
Way 3: Data Recovery Software & Tutorial 04:24

When you delete a file it's not actually gone. It's just hidden by the computer waiting to be overwritten by another file or whatever later on down the line. So if you just deleted something on your MacBook Pro, MacBook MacBook Air, whatever you've got, what I advise to do is stop using it stop using your Mac as much as possible. This will Be the best chances of not overriding the files and therefore having the best chance of getting them back in the future. So if you just deleted something stop using your Mac until you have a chance to run these three methods on your MacBook.

Method 1: So the first one is going to be using a professional file recovery service to actually recover your files from your MacBook not by yourself.

Method 2: This brings me into method number two, which is using Time Machine. In order to recover with Time Machine, all you need to do is first make sure that the drive that you use for Time Machine is connected to your Mac and then navigate to the folder or drive that you want to restore from now. Once you're there go up to the menu bar and search time machine which will bring up the UI now from here. You can literally scroll back through time to the date before the files were deleted. And get your files back, you can simply highlight them and select restore which will bring them out of the past and put them back to their original location.

Method 3: Because if that method didn't work for you and you don't want to go the professional route, there is still one more method that is by far my favorite and that is using recovery software. So the particular piece of software that we're going to be using today. I've talked about before and that is Disk Drill. Of course, I use it all the time not just on this channel, but for my own professional use, I'm a photographer and a videographer professionally and I've misplaced quite a few things in my day. So having a piece of software that I can rely on that can pull files out of a drive for me when all else is lost. Pretty clutch. So I like using Disk Drill. I'm going to show you how to use Disk Drill and let's get started right now.
How to recover deleted files from a MacBook:
Step 1. Download and install Disk Drill for Mac. And once you install it go ahead and launch it. It will be a few tutorials that you can follow to actually learn how the whole UI and the whole system works. But once you're past that it will bring you to the main list of all the drives that are connected to your Mac, which is what we like to call the disc list.
Step 2. So at this point what you're going to do is you're going to highlight the drive that is inside your Mac. So your main hard drive or your main SSD that's connected to your Mac. You're going to find that in your disc list under a hardware disks. Select it.
Step 3. Then go ahead and click the recover button, which is just to the right of the hard drive name and this will begin the scanning process. So, of course this may take a little while depending on if it's an SSD or a hard drive. And of course the size of the drive that it is, so mine is probably going to take around about 20 minutes. So I'm going to wait it out and catch up to you once it's done.
Step 4. Once any scan has completed inside of Disk Drill you will immediately be brought to a list of all the files that have been found within that scanned and they're all organized based on the type of And that was used in order to obtain them so you can go through them. Basically just like any other file system on your Mac. It's a lot like a finder window. You can just go through the different folders and see which files have been found.
Step 5. And once you find the files that you want what's actually really important is you need to actually verify that they're recoverable. Well, there's something called Preview. It's built into Disk Drill where you can see a full preview and intact file preview of that file. All inside of Disk Drill and if and if you can see that inside of Disk Drill, then you know that that files intact and you can do this just by clicking the little preview icon which will bring up a preview of the file if it is not overwritten and ready to be recovered.
Step 6. So if that's the case once you've found the files that you want go ahead and put a check mark next to them just like this that will select them then go ahead and choose a save location. And go ahead and click Recover to recover data from MacBook Air or MacBook Pro hard drive.
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[Jbenson]

Ive got a macbook pro that wont turn on, what can i use to take the hard drive out and hook up to get files off it? Do you have recommendation?

[alina-m]

Thank you Andrew for the detailed explanation on how to restore files on MacBooks 💻 I personally prefer the third DIY method 05:00

[mandrein]

I don't know if you will read this, 2 years later, but man, god bless u, u helped me so much, thanks a lot.

[xuimlqf]

I used to think that I need to pay for icloud or have a huge amount of SD cards with backups, or do like my dad and have 10 GB of copies. Now I think: for what? I don't want to spend resources on all this if the guy from youtube offers free working options.
As a person who spent a lot of time finding ways to restore my data I want to say: this guy resurrected my mac. Moreover, he did it free..
Saving photos in the cloud is good but let's take a little more responsibility for your files. I feel much more confident after I restored everything on my own. I'm sure that guy feels the same

[mukulhazara]

thank you bhai . this video is so helpfull . you saved my job . *thank you from deep of the heart*

[sonicxz]

Can you still recover your data if you reseted to it’s factory settings multiple times and nvram reset it twice?

[pahadifeelboy]

thank u so much brother. you big help for for full data recovered. JAI SHRI RAM . HAR HAR MAHADEV

[cambridgebreaths]

Hi, can you please advise how to recover the bookmarked list on Chrome or Safari after the iMac shows the flashing question mark once opened ( indicating the inability to access the computer stuff ever again). Thank you kindly.

[martinbustamante]

Hi! Can you find the files with the original names and rutes?

[_Pe__]

Thank you Andrew for your useful explanation.

The problem i face is that my MacBook Air SSD stopped working out of the blue. It gives me the dreaded folder with a question mark in it. First aid says that there is nothing wrong. It seems that it's reading only the drive partition that has something to do with recovery. I'm told that the machine recognizes the drive, but not the partition where my data is. Do you think that disk drill would work for me?

[imansf]

Disk Drill did not work for me. it scans and finds tons of data but not the lost ones. It brings up all my current file/data.

[danmaiorescu]

Hello,
I need your advice regarding an iphone 8/256Gb blocked with Apple logo on display. What can I do to save the photos and videos from it? Do I have at least a solution for this problem? 🙁
I have almost 45000 pictures and 1300 videos 🙁
I need someone how can help me on hardware side.I don't know if it's possible to move the memory chip on another board and recover the data.
In cloud I don't have all the documents saved.
Thank you

[tplaysbr]

Hey bro! I recently sold my macbook pro and factory reset it through disk utility by erasing “Data” and “Macintosh HD”. Is there any way my buyer could recover my files?
Thank you so much for providing us a nice and clever content!

[HeartLess-mcew]

Hi hmm I would like to ask is it there difference about basic software and pro ver. I did scan but few file missing, if we buy this software are we getting deep scan instead normal scanning for my card. I have to find very important data can u help. I am a Mac user I have ssd card to recover very important data.

[andrewdasmith]

Hey um I would like to ask on how to recover your deleted startup disk because my sister here is having a problem when she was transferring her data and files or her whole laptop data to her new laptop (MacBook) and then she reset her laptop I don’t know which the old or new then after she reset it, her data disappeared can you please help me?

[KANIVERSE]

Bro i have a unique problem that just happened with my imac, can you help?

[RajivSharma-djgr]

my files aren't visible in diskdrill😖

[hammocklethwick]

When I went into the iCloud... it gave me my iPhone notes ...not my MacBook notes???

[TILER]

Hello. My MacBook is completely broken, it will sometimes make a little noise inside but it does not come on at all. Is there a way to recover files from the hard drive/SSD that's in the 2019 MacBook Pro? :/

[vampyyooja]

Came across your video while trying desperately to find a way to save my thousands of videos in Storage before reinstalling MacOS. My case is: somehow my Mac pro won’t let me pass the login screen, once I put in password it will show a loading bar that only goes up to 80-90% and bounces back to login again. There’s nothing I can do but to reinstall Catalina (tried to upgrade to Big Sur so it won’t erase my data but it won’t let me either, kept saying reinstall Catalina 🤦🏻‍♀️). Before I go ahead and install OS I just want to verify if Disk drill will be able to recover my folder contains a thousand videos and a few hundred photos? Thank you so much for your help I really feel like crying now 😭 Losing all of those work will definitely throw me in depression big time 😞