Data Recovery after MacBook Pro Hard Drive Failure

Updated on June 30, 2021

Use Remo Recover to recover data from failed MacBook Pro, Air, iMac, Mac Mini etc. hard drives in a quick and effective way. The tool supports all hard drives like SATA, SSD, IDE, SCSI etc. Remo Recover is programmed with advanced scan engine which can even recover data from MacBook Pro with ease.

Recently, my MacBook Pro suddenly froze. So, I forced shut down by holding the ‘Power button’. When I tried to reboot, it was extremely slow and after logging in, it froze again. This is happening continuously. After referring to some solutions online, I ran Disk Utility in recovery mode. It produced some error messages and the system turned off again. Now, I’m not sure if all my data is lost. Is there a way to recover my data and how do I do it?

If the user is not able to boot the mac system or encounters a troubleshooting error saying “This disk needs to be repaired” the probability is that the MacBook Pro hard disk is dead or the disk is failed.

The failure or dead disk of the MacBook Pro/ Air or mini leads to data loss. So the first thought that strikes any user is to save the residing data on the drive. In such cases, you will have to use a tool to recover data from dead or failed MacBook Pro.

The following are the Physical reasons why MacBook Pro Hard disks fail:

  • Wear and tear of the internal hard disk
  • Aging of the hard disk
  • Crash of the operating system
  • Power Surge

There are few other factors Logical influencing the failure of hard drive in MacBook Pro like:

  • Bad sectors in a hard drive.
  • Corruption in Partition
  • Corruption in Catalogue files or Journal files.

In order to confirm the failure of the MacBook Pro hard disk, you firstly need to remove the hard disk from MacBook and connect it to working computer. The usual signs to understand if the hard disk is functional is by checking the magnetic disk. If the disk normal functioning, user will be able to hear a spin up sound or blink on the Mac hard disk. if not, the disk is completely dead. In such cases, all your valuable data is under threat. In order to recover your data from dead MacBook pro hard disk, you can follow below methods:

  • Disk Utility method (Inbuilt Microsoft tool)
  • With help of data recovery software

How to Repair a Failed Hard Drive on MacBook Pro using Disk Utility? (Inbuilt mac tool)

Disk Utility is an inbuilt Mac tool which helps in repair or resolve any issue on macOS, you can try disk utility to recover data from MacBook pro hard drive by following the steps below.

  • Restart your Mac computer firstly
  • Press and hold Command + R keys.
  • Click "Disk Utility" and then go to "Continue".
  • Click "View" > "Show All Devices"
  • Choose the following failed Mac hard drive to be repaired.
  • Click "First Aid". If Disk Utility shows that your disk is about to fail, back up your data and replace the disk — you can’t repair it. Otherwise, continue to the next step.
  • Click on "Run" and launch it to repair it through the inbuilt disk utility tool.

MacBook pro hard drive failure data recovery

The disk utility in macOS is an inbuilt repair tool which can address most of the problems. But in some cases of severe damage or corruption, disk utility may not be of great use. Unfortunately, the data residing on the disk will be lost if you don’t have a backup.

Also, you need to know that if the hard drive disk is dead. The MacBook Pro hard drive failure data recovery cannot be promised. As only a few partition in the hard disk might be functional depending on the range of corruption or damage.

Relying on functional logical partition or sectors from the failed or dead disk, the user will be able to recover data from dead MacBook Pro. In such cases, user you might be wondering how to recover data from MacBook hard drive

Remo Recover is effective data recovery tool, which can recognise and recover more than 300+ file types. The application can restore data from failed MacBook Pro hard drive with utter ease from the functional partition. This hard drive recovery utility is a feasible tool to recover data from failed or dead disk. However, the beneficial factors of using Remo Recover mac recovery tool is that the device works on read only mechanism to recover your files, so the originality and structure of all your partitions and data are preserved.

Lastly, the tool can also recover data from SSD after formatting the drive, partition errors and deleted volumes etc.

Features of Remo Recover Mac

  • All types of hard drives such as SSD, SATA, SCSI, IDE on your MacBook Pro are supported
  • The software is compatible with all the Mac devices like MacBook Air, MacBook, Mac Mini, iMac etc.
  • In addition to hard drives, you can also perform Mac data recovery from other storage devices like USB flash drives, Fire Wire devices, SD cards etc.
  • All file systems such as APFS, HFS, HFSX, FAT16, FA32, ExFAT etc are supported
  • You can even restore files from MacBook Air flash drive using this tool
  • How to recover data from MacBook Pro hard drive

    Step 1: First remove your MacBook Pro hard drive and connect it to healthy system, then download and install Remo Recover Mac software

    Step 2: Next, launch the software and wait for the main screen to appear. Here, select the Recover Volumes / Drives option.

    Step 3: Select Partition Recovery option from the next window to recover data from a failed MacBook Pro hard drive and After that you select the desired volume from the list of volumes displayed

    Step 4: Once you click Next the window will appear where you have an option to select the file types that you want to recover or select Skip to recover all the file types

    Step 5: The software scans the selected volume and displays the recoverable files upon completion

    Step 6: Use the Preview option to view the files and save them in a desired location

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