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How to recover lost Mac data after downgrading macOS Mojave?

Many MAC users chose to upgrade to macOS Mojave to try out the new features, but they ignored the fact that some applications might not be supported for the time being. After using for a while in Mojave, they have to downgrade to high Sierra. To reinstall the macOS version, first you need to erase the whole system volume with Disk Utility. If they have backed up the mac before upgrading to Mojave, they can restore from Time Machine.

But some users lost their mac Mac in the erasure process because they don't backup the mac or failed to backup with the Time Machine for some reason. So if they don't have any backup with the Mac, is there any chance to recover those lost data when downgrading from Mojave?

Disk Utility erase the disk

First let' take a look at how the Disk Utility erase the disk and volume. There is a security Options before Erasing the system volume. By default, the Disk Utility use the Fastest options to format the volume, it will save our time to erase the whole system volume. If so, the disk recovery application can recover the files. Now, we can answer the question. Yes, your erased system volume can be recovered with the data recovery application as the same as the below Disk Utility image description.

Disk Utility erase the disk

We recommend to use Fireebok Data Recovery to recover the disk data after the Disk Utility erasing the system volume. Fireebok Data Recovery provides 5 recovery modes:Deleted Recovery, Volume Recovery, Deep Recovery, Lost volume Recovery, Create Image Backup to recover the deleted and lost data, and it supports to recover 550+ file types—Recover not only documents, but also photos, video, music, emails, archive, etc. Here are the steps recover the contents of the disk utility format using volume recovery mode of Fireebok Data Recovery.

First download Fireebok Data Recovery on your computer.


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Step 1: Launch the program and choose your startup disk or volume

Step 2: Choose "Volume Recovery", and click "Start Scan" button

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Step3: Preview the scanning result and select them to save to the different disk or USB device. To avoid the original data being overwritten, you must recover them to a different disk

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If someone can't restore from the time Machine because the time machine has been removed or can't be found on the external disk. You can connect the backup disk and choose it to scan when run Fireebok Data Recovery.

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