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Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) to Recover Lost Data from System Drive
How to Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS?
System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security technology starting in OS X El Capitan and later that's designed to help prevent apps from modifying protected system files and folders on your Mac. This security feature does not allow you an access to files on the system drive in new macOS. If you want to recover lost files on system drive, please turn off the SIP temporarily.
Before turning SIP off, the first thing you need to do is to make sure it isn't off already. Please follow the 2 steps below to check.
Step 1 Click Utilities on the top of your Mac and select Terminal
Step 2 Type in csrutil status to see if the SIP has been disabled
If you confirm that the SIP is still on, please go on the following steps to disable it
Step 1 Click the menu on your Mac and then select Restart
Step 2 Hold down Command + R at the same time and boot into Recovery Mode
Step 3 Click on Utilities menu and launch Terminal
Step 4 Type in csrutil disable in the window of command line and press Return
Step 5 At last, Restart your Mac again
After you have disabled the System Integrity Protection (SIP), please launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac and start scanning lost files for your mac data recovery on system drive. When you have restored lost data from the system disk under macOS 10.13, please remember to enable the System Integrity Protection (SIP) to keep your Mac protection. Just enter csrutil enable in the fourth step to turn the SIP on again like the process of disabling it
Due to macOS requirement, Mac users are not allowed an access to the built-in system drive from any apps. Therefore, if you need to restore lost data from the system disk under macOS through EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac, please take the solutions below to get lost macOS data back from system drive
