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"Hi, I have an old Seagate external hard drive. But, it is unreadable on my Mac. Is there any way to recover my data from it?"

Yeah, when you connect your Seagate external hard drive with your Mac, and want to access to your important documents in this Seagate external hard drive, but, you find that the Seagate external hard drive is unreadable! You can’t open the Seagate external hard drive or your Mac even can not recognize it. What should you do? How to get your files and data from the unreadable Seagate external hard drive?

Don’t panic. You still can get your lost data back! With right data recovery software, you can export and recover data from a Seagate external hard drive which is unreadable on your Mac. Just follow the steps below.

Steps to recover lost data from unreadable Seagate external hard drive on Mac

Step 1: Download Seagate data recovery software.

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac is easy-to-use and powerful data recovery software which is fully capable of recovering data when your Seagate external hard drive becomes unreadable on Mac. First of all, just download it and install it on your Mac.

Step 2: Run Do Your Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac.

Run this Seagate Mac data recovery software on your Mac computer. Then choose the file types you want to recover. It also can recover all types of files from the unreadable Seagate external hard drive on your Mac.

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Step 3: Choose and scan the unreadable Seagate external hard drive.

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac will automatically recognize the unreadable Seagate external hard drive. Just choose it. Then click on "Scan" button to scan the Seagate external hard drive to find lost files.

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Step 4: Preview and recover files from unreadable Seagate external hard drive on Mac.

Once the scan is completed, Do Your Data Recovery for Mac will create a list of all recoverable files. The recoverable files could be existing files, deleted files and lost files on this unreadable Seagate external hard drive. Just choose the wanted files and recover them.

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Do Your Data Recovery for Mac can easily and completely export/recover data from unreadable Seagate external hard drive under Mac OS. It can help you recover deleted/formatted data from unreadable Seagate external hard drive, and export existing data from a Seagate external hard drive when it becomes unreadable on your Mac.

How to fix unreadable Seagate external hard drive on Mac?

If you want to fix the unreadable Seagate external hard drive on your Mac, you can format it to fix errors. Disk Utility can help you format the unreadable Seagate external hard drive on your Mac. If Disk Utility can’t recognize the unreadable Seagate external hard drive, just try data erasure software - such as DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac. This Mac data erasure software will format the Seagate external hard drive, fix errors and permanently wipe all data from unreadable Seagate external hard drive under Mac OS.

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Written & Updated by Anderson

Anderson is a big fan of computer technology. He joined DoYourData in 2018 and has been writing 200+ articles about disk clone, data recovery, computer technology, data erasure, Mac system optimization, etc. He loves music, movie, and reading. In his spare time, he’s studying music and playing tennis.

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