{"id":32202,"date":"2020-10-27T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/?p=32202"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:03:50","slug":"accidentally-erased-hard-drive-in-disk-utility-its-recoverable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/recover-erased-hard-drive-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"Accidentally Erased Hard Drive in Disk Utility? It’s Recoverable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you accidentally erased a hard drive using Disk Utility on Mac and are wondering if you can recover it? You\u2019re not the only one! Every day, thousands of users around the world search for solutions that would let them recover an erased hard drive on Mac, but only a few find what they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\r\n

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Why? Because there\u2019s a lot of misinformation online when it comes to data recovery solutions for Mac. The goal of this article is to help Mac users recover erased data in the quickest and most cost-effective manner possible, which is why we describe two different solutions, each suitable for a slightly different data loss scenario.<\/p>\r\n

<\/span>Does Disk Utility Erase Everything on the Hard Drive?<\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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“I tried factory resetting my MacBook and I accidentally erased all startup disks including Macintosh HD […] I opened disk utility and I two disks pop up one says 121.33 GB Apple ssd sd0128f media under that it says disk1 and the other one is a little bit lower it says disk 1 and under that it says OS X base system,” writes a user on Reddit’s r\/macbookrepair<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Sadly, posts like this one are far from rare. In fact, you\u2019re guaranteed to come across at least one or two almost every day if you frequent popular Mac forums. But even though erasing the wrong internal or external hard drive seems like a pretty clear-cut problem to tackle, the truth is that some erased hard drives can be recovered using hard drive recovery software, while others can only be restored from a backup.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Even though Disk Utility<\/a> always erases everything on the hard drive, it doesn\u2019t always overwrite the erased data, making their recovery impossible. It all depends on the security options. These options specify how to erase the selected drive to prevent hard drive recovery software from recovering it.<\/p>\r\n

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As a Mac user, you can choose between the following security options:<\/p>\r\n