How to recover Windows hard drive / PC deleted data on Mac

Summary: The purpose of this ‘how-to’ blog is to let you know about the recovery of deleted NTFS files or corrupt PC drive restoration using a Mac system.

This will prove to be helpful when Windows disk need recovery and no other system than a MacOS is available.

Try the demo version of Stellar Data Recovery Professional tool for NTFS drive recovery on Mac

To better understand, we must consider below events:

1) Your Windows hard drive crashed or got corrupt or became inaccessible. All the files stored on the Windows NTFS hard disk went far from your reach.

2) Or, you deleted all files from your Windows disk drive and removed the HDD from the PC before donating or selling the Windows machine. (Instead, we can also assume that NTFS hard drive files were erased).

Having imagined the above 2 cases, we shall now be discussing the recovery of Windows based hard drive or restoration of NTFS files using a macOS.

We are aware that Macs and Windows OS are 360 degrees opposite to each other. Without a virtual booting, it’s not possible to run Windows/Mac software on each others platform. Moreover, if you work requires you to have a Mac and Windows machine then you must have a bunch of applications that can support all the files systems – Mac’s HFS, Windows NTFS & common platforms – ex-FAT and FAT.

In the above two events, you require connecting the NTFS hard drive to a Mac system to perform data recovery. Since Mac will not write any data to an NTFS based hard disk, we will be taking help of Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac tool to help us restore data from corrupt Windows hard disk. This recovery software has a knack of recovering deleted and erased files from an NTFS hard drive.

Install the data recovery software on Mac and follow below steps positively:

Step 1) Connect NTFS hard drive to Mac and start the software

Step 2) Toggle What data types you want to restore

Step 3) Further, select your NTFS hard drive from Select Location

Step 4) Start the Scan (Here you can run Deep Scan too)

Step 4.1) Let the Scan finish

Step 4.2) Evaluate the preview of recoverable files types

Step 5) Register the Mac data recovery software and save all recoverable files from the NTFS to another location.

Note: To save data recovered from the NTFS media, you can connect any HFS (FAT/ex-FAT) external hard drove to Mac.

Important

Since BootCamp Partition too is an NTFS formatted disk, the software Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac will support file recovery of deleted Windows files as well as data restoration from a deleted BootCamp Partition.