🎉 Disk Drill 6 is here!


Disk Drill, the brainchild of CleverFiles, has been upgraded to version 6. Advanced camera recovery, next-gen Byte-to-Byte backups, ReFS lost partition recovery, Windows BitLocker-encrypted partitions, improved faster scans, HEX view for in-depth disk & partition analysis, next-level scanning speed, refined sleeker ui, next-gen NTFS & exFAT recovery, SSH + RAID recovery improvements. Check out the full changelog for details.
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Version 6.0.2020

⚡ New
  • Advanced Camera Recovery - introducing the recovery of fragment-deleted videos and photos from cameras, drones, dashcams, smart telescopes, microscopes, and other camera-equipped devices
  • Revamped byte-to-byte backups - engineered for recovery, enhanced fault tolerance, and a fresh, visually rich interface
  • ReFS lost partition recovery - more data restored, more meta-information salvaged
  • The Nikon N-RAW (NEV) video format is now supported by Deep Scan, along with enhancements to over 100 file signatures for broader and more intelligent recovery
  • Hex View added for advanced disk and partition analysis - ideal for raw, low-level inspection of data integrity and device condition
  • Targeted recovery from BitLocker-enabled Windows partitions
  • Support for Bonjour (zero-configuration networking) and mDNS (local network discovery) added - Disk Drill now automatically detects network devices for remote recovery over SSH
  • Added certificate validity check for legacy macOS distributions in the macOS Installer module

✨ Improvements
  • Support for discovery and scanning of exFAT partitions
  • Disk Drill compatibility in Recovery Mode across modern Mac models
  • Detection of damaged exFAT partitions that were previously misidentified as RAW, along with a significant improvement in recovery success rates
  • Detection of lost NTFS partitions
  • Quick and Deep Scan results are now intelligently merged during a Universal Scan to prevent file duplication
  • Automatic RAID array reconstruction is now supported during remote recovery over SSH
  • The sidebar, interface controls, list elements, preview pane, navigation flow, filter system, and icon set have all been refined to deliver a more streamlined and modernized user experience
  • RAID1 EXT2 detection
  • NTFS partition detection when MBR is wiped
  • Detection of disk disconnection to notify a user that the current scan cannot be resumed
  • Data reading/extraction from VHDX disk and partition images
  • Speed and memory usage in Time Machine-specific scan operations

🐞 Fixes
  • Missing Call History extraction in iOS 18.3
  • Crash when requesting new Network Access permission on macOS 15
  • Memory leaks during exFAT scanning operations
  • Sorting issues when recovering from iOS and iPadOS devices
  • Resolved a hang in Disk Drill’s portable mode when scanning the Guaranteed Recovery and Recovery Vault database on system drives
  • Occasional crash when parsing JPG file signature metadata within Deep Scan operations
  • Broken sorting for expanded folders containing less than 1,000 files
  • Rare crash when scanning APFS-formatted disks
  • Repeated "disk offline" warnings when loading sessions
  • Incorrect notification about interrupted scan when a disk is disconnected
  • Auto-selection of the backup source when navigating from the bad sector warning for the current disk
  • Improper notification about interrupted scan when the scan had already completed successfully
  • "Back" button not returning to the disk list if the scanned disk had been disconnected
  • Rare exception when saving a session of a scanned device