Mac Tip - How to Fix your Mac OS X Hardrive - Part One

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How to Recover your Data on a Mac  - Part One

Use all these tips at your own risk

Part Two of the Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQ_nSp_A4I

Links:

Video on how to make a boot Disk in Yosemite and El Capitan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRy9IdV53wg

Lacie Drives

http://bestmacgadgets.blogspot.com

Applications Links

Filesalvage

http://www.subrosasoft.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=201&products_id=1&zenid=c25ed72179ce8dcefdc7ee1253a211ea

Free trial of Data Rescue and Drive Genius

https://www.prosofteng.com/downloads/

Disk Warrior

http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

Techtool and Checkmate

https://www.micromat.com/products/techtool-pro

 Step 1 - Determine if the disk is dead

               and Find a way to boot

a  - Recovery partition

               Command – R

b  - Thumb drive with an OS

           diskmakerx

c  - External drive with an OS

        (buy one on Ebay) $16.00 

       Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 Bootable USB

       http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/281772773750?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82

      

 Hold down the option Key to select the Thumb Drive

d  - Single user mode

      Command (⌘)-S

d  - Zap your PRAM

      Option-Command (⌘)-P-R

D - Start-up in safe mode

      Hold the shift key on boot

E - Eject any drives

      Hold the mouse or trackpad button

Step 2 - Run Disk Utility

Step 3 - Try Recovery Utilities

      Lacie rugged drives

how to recover data from hard disk

If all else fails try sending it to a

hard drive data recovery services

hard drive data recovery - Data Rescue