If you recovering from a Mac internal hard drive, refer to our tutorial How to Recover Lost Files from Your Mac Internal Hard Drive. Note that portable mode still needs a Mac OS to run and cannot be launched when connected to other operating systems. You are now ready to begin file recovery. You can now safely eject the external drive by either a) clicking the triangular button next to the name of the disk in any window, or b) by right-clicking on the disk icon and selecting Eject.When the installation is done, open your external drive and double-check that the Disk Drill icon now appears there.The application will install on the external drive. Release your mouse button when the green plus button appears. Instead, click on the Disk Drill icon, and keeping your mouse button held down, drag it to your external drive icon on the Desktop. Do NOT drag it to your Applications folder. This is where it is different from the regular installation.

You will see the Disk Drill icon and the Applications folder icon.

Read the license agreement and click Agree to continue.

Go to the Downloads folder and double-click on the Disk Drill disk image.

It may take a couple minutes to download. (If your browser asks you where to save the file, select the desired folder and click Save).

The Disk Drill app will automatically be downloaded to the Downloads folder.

Go to downloads.html to download the app.

Disk Drill’s app isn’t very large, so almost any size will do.

Connect a USB flash drive or external hard drive to the working Mac.

If your own Mac isn’t working, use a different Mac that is working.

If you wish to recover files on a Mac that won’t start up properly, you’ll need to install it on a bootable drive. As long as you have that USB drive or hard drive handy, you can recover data from your Mac. The Disk Drill app is installed on an external disk that is plugged into the computer: this disk could be a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or other storage device.

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