HFS Data Recovery - Get Back Data from HFS File System

The key difference between Windows and mac data recovery is the different file systems they support separately. The Windows computer typically use NTFS files system, while the Mac file system is known as HFS (Hierarchical File system). And current Mac computers, including iPod, use a newer version of HFS plus to replace the primary file system of HFS.

Sometimes the data loss problems occur because the data structures used by HFS file system to store, manage, access and manipulate data are damaged or corrupted, due to numerous reasons such as virus attack, user errors, improper system shutdown, system crash, and operating system malfunction. Then HFS file system may not work properly. In some situations, the HFS file system volume may become inaccessible in Mac operating system. Or you accidentally deleting of files or formatting. In such situations, you need to do HFS data recovery to save your lost files with mac data recovery software.

How to do HFS data recovery on your Mac?

Free download Wondershare Data Recovery on you Mac, and follow the next simple steps to perform HFS data recovery.

Step 1: Select a file type you want to recover. You can go select the option "All File Types" to start

Step 2: Go to select the target location where you lost files, and click "Start" button to scanning files.

Step 3: If quick scan can't get yout HFS files, you can go to deep scan which will help you get more files. But it will take more time.

Step 3: Preview and recover HFS files

After scanning, you can go to preview all recoverable files and click "Recover" to save.

Detailed Instructions of 3 Available Recovery

Deleted File Recovery – If you delete files by pressing "command + delete" or empty the Trash, this is the quickest way for you to find the data on HFS file system.

Raw Recovery – You can't find your deleted files by "Deleted File Recovery", or the data loss is due to formatting, virus or malware attack or improper operations etc. This way will take a longer time to recover data.

Partition recovery – If you can't find the partition where your lost data locates, you can use this mode to find your partition first and then recover data.