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Recover Lost XLSX files from Formatted Mac OSX Hard Drive

People mostly think that Microsoft office is used only on windows OS based computers but it is also available for the Apple Mac OSX systems. Excel for Mac is the part of Microsoft Office for Mac. Similar to Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac is a part of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac which uses XLSX file extension. People that working with excel for Mac should maintain the backup regularly so that they can prevent the data from getting lost.

In the situation of hard drive formatting, all the data present on the Mac Hard drive will be lost and if you have not taken the backup then you will face the data loss. In formatting all the files, directories, volumes, operating system and all the installed application are deleted so that the drive become empty. In this situation you will lose the XLSX files if you don\'t have updated backup and it is also seen that at times you have to format the hard drive due to reasons like:

  1. virus infections in Operating system
  2. File system or hard drive damage
  3. Reinstalling the operating system for fixing boot system errors

It is true that in formatting all the contents including XLSX file will be removed but all the contents are still recoverable. In the disk formatting the files are not removed until they are overwritten by other files. The hard drive maintains an index file from where the operating system gets the location where the particular file is stored. In the action of formatting the link between operating system and index file will be deleted but the file physically remains intact. This intact file can be recovered using Data Recovery for Mac.

Data recovery for Mac is an application that has strong searching algorithms to recover lost, deleted, corrupted and inaccessible files that are recognized by Mac OSX. It is so strong that it scans complete hard drive and extracts the data from it. Due to simple and easily operable graphics user interface and read only conduct to give safe and easy recovery. It is capable to run on all the Mac OSX that uses HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT files. The Macintosh Data Recovery will be the ideal solution to get back those personal files that are really precious for you.