When the MacBook Pro is dead or crashed, or it can not boot properly, the first thing is to recover data from the dead Mac hard drive. How to recover data from dead MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac with Bootable Media and several manual methods will help you to recover data from MacBook Pro hard drive and repair failed/unbootable Mac hard drive in the simplest way.

1. Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac. This is hands-down one of the most reliable and all.
2. Starting with the release of macOS Lion in 2011, Macs have offered a Recovery.

In most cases, after you’ve booted successfully from the Recovery HD or another. Mac Recovery Mode is like a program that loads the Mac built-in recovery tool from a specific disk partition that holds the duplicate OS X installer with a recovery image. Just think about a situation when your Mac couldn't be recovered using any other method. Then the last option left would be using the Recovery mode to diagnose disk problems.

You can follow this page to either repair a failed hard drive on Mac or recover data from a dead Mac hard drive.

How Do I Recover Data from My Dead MacBook Pro?

'My MacBook Pro died and stopped working last week. It won't turn on from then on and gets stuck in the process of trying to boot up. Is there any way I can recover data from the dead MacBook Pro?'

As one of the most popular desktop devices, MacbookPro elevates the notebook to a whole new level of performance and portability. Although Macbook Pro works normally in most cases, however, something wrong may occasionally happen, such as it may suddenly crash or die due to various reasons.

Here is a list of major reasons that may cause you Mac computer died or fail to boot:

• Computer wear and tear, or aging
• System crash
• Hard drive failure
• Virus attack
• Too many bad sectors

When the problem occurs, you can neither boot the MacBook Pro nor can you access the data on the hard drive. At this time, the first thing you can do is to get data off the dead MacBook Pro is using a professional Mac data recovery software. Then you can use the built-in Disk Utility or other methods to repair the corrupted hard drive on MacBook Pro with ease.

The provided solutions on this page also work to recover data from dead Mac hard drive on MacBook, MacBook Air, etc., computers. Read on and see the detailed how-to guide.

MacBook Data Recovery: Recover Data from Dead MacBook Pro

If you have a Time Machine backup on MacBook Pro, you can follow methods in the next part to repair failed hard drive, make MacBook pro bootable again, and restore Mac data from Time Machine backup.

If you don't have a backup, don't worry. You can try the following two methods to restore data from dead MacBook Pro to an external hard drive to another computer.

Method 1. Recover Data from Dead MacBook Pro to an External Hard Drive

Professional Mac hard drive data recovery program - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac with bootable media can effectively recover lost photos, audio, music, documents, emails from failed/crashed/dead MacBook Pro.

EaseUS Mac data recovery software also supports recovering deleted files from the emptied Trash, external hard drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, SD cards, etc. on Mac OS X 10.9 to macOS Catalina 10.15.

Now, you can follow the tutorial below to create a bootable recovery drive and recover data from the dead MacBook Pro hard drive with a few steps:

How to Create a USB Bootable Media

Step 1. Install and run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac on another Mac computer, select 'File' > 'Create Bootable USB'. Then, choose a USB drive to create the bootable disc.

Step 2. The program starts to create a 2GB space and save the boot files. The rest space on the USB can be still used for storage.

Step 3. Once it completes, please follow the guide to boot the corrupted Mac from the bootable disc and start the recovery. We suggest you restore the data to an external hard drive.

How to Recover Data from Mac Hard Disk

Step 1. Select the disk location (it can be an internal HDD/SSD or a removable storage device) where you lost data and files. Click the 'Scan' button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will immediately scan your selected disk volume and display the scanning results on the left pane.

Step 3. In the scan results, select the file(s) and click the 'Recover Now' button to have them back.

Note: Remember to save the recovered Mac data to another secure external hard drive and then follow methods in the next part to repair the problematic Mac hard drive.

Method 2. Recover Mac Hard Drive Data to Another PC/Mac

Macbook Pro Recovery Mode

Note: As the following tips will break your computer warranty and you are on a warranty, don't try the provided tips. Also, if you are not experienced in removing or inserting hard drive on Mac computers, revert back to Method 1 for help.

If you have two computers at home, you can also try the following steps to restore Mac hard drive data to another computer:

First. Remove Mac hard drive and connect it to another computer

Required tools: a screwdriver, an external hard drive enclosure, and a USB connection cable.

Recovery Mode For Mac Pro

Step 1. Open your Mac computer case, remove the hard drive with your screwdriver.

Step 2. Put your Mac hard drive into the external hard drive enclosure, and connect it to your computer.

Next. Access and check the data

On Windows Computer: Open the Windows File Explorer, double-click to check the hard drive data.

On Mac: Double-click the disk icon on the desktop and check if you can access the hard drive and its data.

If you can access the data, congratulations. You've successfully got your data out of the dead MacBook Pro. If not data shows up, refers to the next step.

Last. Restore Mac Hard Drive to Another Computer

File Recovery For Mac Program

On Windows computer, you can download the Windows version of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to scan and recover data from Mac hard drive to PC with ease.

On Mac computer, you can follow the three steps below to directly scan and bring the Mac hard drive data back:

Step 1. Select the disk location (it can be an internal HDD/SSD or a removable storage device) where you lost data and files. Click the 'Scan' button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will immediately scan your selected disk volume and display the scanning results on the left pane.

Step 3. In the scan results, select the file(s) and click the 'Recover Now' button to have them back.

After this, you've successfully restore data from your dead MacBook Pro.

How to Repair a Failed Hard Drive or Dead MacBook Pro

When you meet these issues on MacBook Pro, such as MacBook Pro is dead, Mac won't start up, multiple apps quit unexpectedly, a file is corrupted, and an external device doesn't work properly, you are highly possible having a problematic Mac hard drive.

Usually, when your Mac computer dead or failed to boot up, it's highly possible that the problem exists on your Mac hard drive or the macOS. As the causes are different, the fixes may also differ.

Method 1. Run First Aid to Repair Failed Mac Hard Drive using Disk Utility

Disk Utility is a built-in Mac disk management tool that can also fix some disk problems, like Mac hard drive won't boot.

After restoring the Mac hard drive data to a safe place, you can use the Disk Utility to check for errors and repair problematic hard drive and volumes with the following steps:

Step 1. Restart your Mac computer, press and hold Command + R keys simultaneously.

Step 2. Click 'Disk Utility' and then 'Continue'.

Step 3. Go to 'View' > 'Show All Devices'.

Choose the Mac hard drive to be repaired.

Step 4. Click 'First Aid' and then 'Run'. Click 'Done' when the process completes.

If Disk Utility reports that the disk appears to be OK or has been repaired, you've finished.

If Disk Utility tells you the disk is about to fail, you can't repair it, got back to Method 1 with the provided Mac data recovery tool to export all the data from dead Mac immediately. Then you can either choose to replace the old Mac hard drive with a new one or directly switch to everything - your data to a new Mac computer.

Method 2. Fix Won't Turn on MacBook Pro or Mac Computers

When the Mac computer is installed with a piratic macOS or the macOS crashes, the MacBook Pro or other Mac computers may also fail to boot. And some even don't react at all, showing like a dead computer.

So how to fix this issue? Here are 5 ways that you can try to fix Mac computer won't turn on issue:

• Fix 1. Fix PRAM/NVRAM
• Fix 2. Reset SMC
• Fix 3. Boot in Safe Mode
• Fix 4. Run Disk Utility
• Fix 5. Reinstall macOS

For a step-by-step guide, please refer to Mac won't boot for help.

Conclusion & MacBook Data Recovery FAQs

On this page, we covered the reasons that cause MacBook Pro and hard drive dead. To recover the lost Mac hard drive data immediately, turn to EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac.

It will quickly scan and restore your lost Mac hard drive data with a created data recovery bootable disk. You can also try to switch the old Mac hard drive to a new computer, and check if you can access the data.

As for repairing the problematic Mac hard drive, you can run Disk Utility with its First Aid feature to see if the disk can be fixed. If nothing works, you can consider changing a Mac computer or try the recommend 5 methods to fix the Mac computer that won't turn on.

If you still have some questions about MacBook data recovery, check the quick answers below to help yourself out:

1. How do I recover data from my Mac?

When you lost data on Mac computer, here are three ways that you can try to recover data from Mac:

Method 1. Restore Deleted Files from Mac Trash Bin

Method 2. Recover Data from Time Machine Backup

Method 3. Recover Data using Mac Data Recovery Software, such as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

2. Does Apple offer data recovery?

According to Apple's hard drive data recovery and warranty implications: 'Hard drives that have become non-functional through normal use, and have had data recovery performed on them by third-party companies specializing in data recovery services can be returned to Apple for warranty service...'.

3. How do I recover data from my MacBook after factory reset?

The possibility to recover data after factory resetting MacBook is not very high. But, as long as you didn't save any new files on the Mac hard drive after the factory reset, you can still try to run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac and check if it can find something for you.

If you need a complete guide to factory reset a Mac computer, refer to Factory Reset MacBook without Losing Data for help.

4. How do I recover data from my Macbook SSD?

As you know that SSD has a Trim mode, and if you turned on the Trim mode, everything you deleted cannot be restored.

Therefore, if you need to restore data from SSD, you need first check the SSD Trim status; Then if the Trim is disabled, run EaseUS Mac data recovery software to scan and restore data from your Mac SSD.

“I have a MacBook Pro which is crashed recently due to OS failure. And, I lost a huge amount of data stored on that MacBook Pro Laptop. Is there any way to recover my files from MacBook Pro?”

Typically, you won’t be able to boot a crashed/failed MacBook Pro. This is the case where a large number of MacBook Pro users become victims of data loss.

But, have you ever think is there any way to make the MacBook Pro bootable rather than immediately recovering data from dead or crashed MacBook Pro? No? Then, read this story.

Instead of trying to restore files from MacBook Pro directly, check whether you can boot it in any way. For this, you can make a bootable USB drive and use it to start your MacBook Pro.

How to Boot the Dead/Crashed MacBook Pro Using Bootable USB Disk?

Step 1: First download the macOS installer from the App Store (close, if it opens automatically after download). Ensure macOS installer is present in the Applications folder.

Step 2: Mount a USB drive and open Mac Terminal.

Step 3: Type createinstallmedia and hit Enter key to create a bootable installer.

Step 4: Type below path depending on your OS version and press Enter button.

Mac Os Recovery Disk

• Sierra: /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
• El Capitan: /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
• Yosemite: /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
• Mavericks: /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia

Step 5: Now, insert this bootable USB disk and boot your dead MacBook Pro from USB.

Step 6: Backup entire data from MacBook Pro onto a safe drive.

If you can’t boot the MacBook Pro using above steps then, check at least, you have an updated backup of MacBook Pro data. In case, you don’t have backup also, then grab Yodot Mac Data Recovery straight away.

Yodot MacBook Pro Recovery Software:

Yodot Mac Data Recovery software is there to recover all files that have been deleted or lost from MacBook Pro. What it really does is, it thoroughly scans your Mac Volumes and recovers all the deleted, formatted and lost data from it. Not just dead or crashed MacBook Pro, even it can recover data from dead WD external hard drive, restore Samsung internal SSD data, get back files on Toshiba USB drive, restore files from Porsche Design hard drive and more i.e. it supports data recovery from any brand and type of storage device. It has many other interesting features as well which makes it useful enough to perform data recovery functions efficiently and effectively. In order to know much about its features and recovery steps, you can try its free trial version.

How to Recover Data from Crashed or Dead MacBook Pro?

First, download and install Yodot Mac Data Recovery software on a healthy Mac. Connect your MacBook Pro hard drive as a slave (secondary drive) to software installed computer.

Step 1: Run the tool and select Volume Recovery option.

Step 2: Select the MacBook Pro drive when drives present in the system are shown.

Step 3: Next, choose all found volumes of MacBook Pro.

Step 4: Opt for Advanced Scan option.

Step 5: Hit Skip button, let the tool starts scanning.

Step 6: Recovered data from MacBook Pro will be displayed in File Type View and Data View.

Step 7: Mark your required data and save them to a new drive.

Suggestions to Follow:

• Before deleting or formatting any drive, make sure that you have backup of important files
• After facing data loss from your MacBook Pro, do not save any new data into it

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