- Connect your external hard disk to the Mac computer.
- Click the Go menu on the top of the dock and then choose the Utilities option from the list.
- In the Utilities window, select the Disk Utility menu.
- From the left side panel, select the external drive that you want to repair.
- Now, click the First Aid icon on the right-side panel at the top.
- The running status of the First Aid appears on the screen, wait until the process completes.
- Then, check if the hard drive issue is fixed. If so, the data can be easily recovered.
- To restore the data in the hard drive, select the Restore button.
- The Restore window shows up, choose any other disk to make a copy of the data on the external drive.
- Make sure the destination disk does not have any data, as the process deletes the data that is already present on the destination disk.
- Select Restore and then click Done to begin the restoration.
- using these steps that how to recover data from external hard drive Mac.