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Determine whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps:

Superior file recovery. Recuva can recover pictures, music, documents, videos, emails or any other file type you’ve lost. And it can recover from any rewriteable media you have: memory cards, external hard drives, USB sticks and more! Most files should be under your home directory with your name on it. Once you’ve found the files, right-click them, choose the “Recover” option, and then select the directory where you’d like to save the recovered files. Ideally, you should use an external drive to prevent other files from being overwritten.

Apple silicon

Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button until you see the startup options window. Click the gear icon labeled Options, then click Continue.

Intel processor

Make sure that your Mac has a connection to the internet. Then turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold Command (⌘)-R until you see an Apple logo or other image.

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If you're asked to select a user you know the password for, select the user, click Next, then enter their administrator password.

Reinstall macOS

Select Reinstall macOS from the utilities window in macOS Recovery, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.

Follow these guidelines during installation:

• If the installer asks to unlock your disk, enter the password you use to log in to your Mac.
• If the installer doesn't see your disk, or it says that it can't install on your computer or volume, you might need to erase your disk first.
• If the installer offers you the choice between installing on Macintosh HD or Macintosh HD - Data, choose Macintosh HD.
• Allow installation to complete without putting your Mac to sleep or closing its lid. Your Mac might restart and show a progress bar several times, and the screen might be empty for minutes at a time.

After installation is complete, your Mac might restart to a setup assistant. If you're selling, trading in, or giving away your Mac, press Command-Q to quit the assistant without completing setup. Then click Shut Down. When the new owner starts up the Mac, they can use their own information to complete setup.

Other macOS installation options

When you install macOS from Recovery, you get the current version of the most recently installed macOS, with some exceptions:

• On an Intel-based Mac: If you use Shift-Option-Command-R during startup, you're offered the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available. If you use Option-Command-R during startup, in most cases you're offered the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac. Otherwise you're offered the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.
• If the Mac logic board was just replaced, you may be offered only the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac. If you just erased your entire startup disk, you may be offered only the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.

You can also use these methods to install macOS, if the macOS is compatible with your Mac:

• Use the App Store to download and install the latest macOS.
• Use the App Store or a web browser to download and install an earlier macOS.
• Use a USB flash drive or other secondary volume to create a bootable installer.

We have developed a highly sophisticated app that will open a drive (or camera, or generally anything that gets mounted in OS X as a volume or disk) and read it as a raw device, or a raw data stream. It then reads the entire thing, and as it’s reading it’s searching for file patterns that are found in certain file types, or for other kinds of patterns such as ASCII text. As it does so it outputs the results as a coherent list of recoverable files on the drive, which are presented to you in a window which is exactly the same as the column-based view that you probably use to browse through your regular files in the Finder sometimes. This is making it look easy. Behind the scenes it’s jumping through all kinds of hoops to get you this info. But it works well. You can even get live real thumbnail previews of the files it’s finding while it’s scanning through your drive with the free demo. If you’ve lost any files or other kinds of data that you want back, even after formatting a disk and then using it again for a few months or sometimes even years, this is your best shot at getting them back. It’s particularly effective on USB drives and USB sticks, as well as most other USB device types including most cameras.

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