After you Crashed Hard drive recovery, one of the most important things you need to remember is that you should not write to the disk. This refers to the disk that has the files you intend to Photo Recovery Mac from. When a file is deleted, the space it had occupied is left blank and will be reused for another file but this does not usually happen as soon as you delete it. If you write anything on the disk that you are getting the lost data from, it might take up the space that was occupied by the deleted file and this will make the recovery process impossible.

Once you have located the lost data, save it on another drive and not the one you recovered it from. You can save it on your external drive, a shared network or a USB flash drive.

The software that is used to help in the recovery process will remind you to save the data in another location. Some of the programs will also allow you to bur the data directly on a DVD or CD.

If the lost data that you are trying to recover is on Outlook, you should get Photo Recovery to make the recovery process simpler.