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Recover Lost Pages/Numbers/Keynote Documents on Mac

The format of .pdf file is one of the most popular file formats in the world due to its great versatility, but many times we just format hard disks without making a backup of the information or we simply ignored any saved. pdf. This could result in a valuable lost of information. For example, you format a hard drive on Mac with Disk Utility without backing up your important PDF documents on the formatted hard drive. What should you do? In this guide, we will show you an easy way to recover deleted/lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac.

How to recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac?

PDF file recovery software for Mac is the essential tool for recovery of lost PDF documents from formatted Mac hard drive. Do Your Data Recovery for Mac has been voted as the top ten data recovery software for Mac. It can easily and quickly recover deleted PDF documents from formatted hard drive under Mac OS.

You can even retrieve documents in PDF of hard drives that are inaccessible through the file browser on Mac OS. Do Your Data Recovery for Mac recovers any PDF document and save it to another hard drive, USB drives, SD or in any storage medium of your choice.

Steps to recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac

Step 1: Select the Documents that you want to retrieve.

When you run Do Your Data Recovery for Mac, the first thing you should do is select the types of files you want to recover before starting. If you only want to recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac, just select "Documents". You also can let this software find all types of lost files on the formatted hard drive.

recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac

Step 2: Choose the formatted hard drive to scan it.

To recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac, you should only choose the hard drive that was formatted. Then proceed to click on the "Scan" button to begin scanning the hard drive so that you can find your PDF files lost by you've formatted the hard drive.

recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac

Step 3: Retrieve lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac.

After scanning the formatted hard drive, you can preview the recoverable files by type, just click on "PDF" and there you will find all PDF documents that were lost after you have formatted your hard drive, just select the PDF documents that you want to recover and save them on your Mac or on any external device.

recover lost PDF documents from formatted hard drive on Mac

If you can’t find all lost PDF documents after quick scan, just click Advanced Recovery mode. This powerful data recovery software can help you deeply scan the formatted hard drive again and find every recoverable PDF file. And, in order to prevent overwriting, please don’t save new files to the formatted hard drive before you get all lost PDF documents back!

This is the efficient solution to recover lost PDF documents from formatted/erased hard drive on Mac. Do Your Data Recovery for Mac also can help you recover lost Microsoft documents, videos, text notes, audio, photos and other lost files from hard drive or storage media device under Mac OS.

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Written & Updated by Henry Lee

Henry Lee joined DoYourData in 2022. He is interested in writing articles about fixing PC/Mac’s problems. He often shares tutorials and skills regarding information tech and enjoys helping people solve various data loss problems or hard drive crash problems. He likes reading and cooking very much when he is off work.

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