Plug the USB drive into the unbootable Mac. Download the two files as below and save them to the root directory of the USB drive. Please remember the name of the USB drive. Plug the USB drive into the healthy computer or the device listed above. An external disk to save recovered files. A healthy Windows PC, Mac or Android mobile phone which is connected to the Internet.Ĭ. You need to prepare those things before you go further:Ī. Method 2: (Requires Mac OS X 10.9 - OS X 10.11) But make sure the external drive is not formatted with NTFS file system because macOS cannot write to NTFS drive.

Please select a different location, such as an external drive. You will be asked to choose a location to store the recovered files. Preview the scanning results and choose the files you want to get back. The program will start scanning for lost data on the drive.

If it is a corrupted drive with APFS encrypted file system, click 'Find Lost APFS Partitions' at the top and continue.

In iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac, you can select the Mac hard drive in the list. After iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac launched, you can continue to get data off the unbootable Mac.

If the entered command is not found, please check if you entered wrong command or your macOS is older than macOS 10.12 (The old macOS doesn't have curl command).

When running iBoysoft Data Recovery in macOS recovery mode, it needs to load iBoysoft Data Recovery from our Server, please connect your Mac to Internet and try again.

If you see a message ' Could not resolve host: ' after running the above command, it means your Mac has not connected to Internet.

If you see a message ' No such file or directory' after running the above command, it means you entered the wrong command, please enter the correct one and try again.

There are two spaces in the above command, one space after sh, another space after curl.This will launch iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac in macOS Recovery mode. Run the following command and wait a moment. Open Terminal from Utilities drop-down menu. When you see the macOS Utilities menu, your Mac is in the macOS Recovery Mode.You need to make your Mac connected to the Internet all the time. You can release the key combinations until you see the spinning globe or any startup screen.Boot your Mac into macOS recovery mode according to the methods showing in picture as below.

Mac os x boot disk not found