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About Disk Drill

Simple enough for casual users but more than capable of delivering professional results, Disk Drill 5 is the ultimate data recovery and protection app both for macOS and Windows.

From permanently deleted work documents that took many hours to create to accidentally formatted USB flash drives and memory cards with irreplaceable family images and videos, Disk Drill 5 can quickly solve all data loss situations, regardless of how serious they may seem to be.

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Summary

Disk Drill for Mac

Disk Drill data recovery for Mac OS X locates and recovers deleted files from any mountable media like your main drive, external hard disk, memory cards, iPods, iPhones and Android devices, etc.

Disk Drill for Windows

Disk Drill can recover any deleted file if it hasn't been overwritten: photos, music, documents, archives, application specific OS X and Windows formats.

Release notes
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5.5.1517

May 07, 2024

New
Disk Drill 5.5 brings on lots of fine tuning of interface and overall app performance
New file signatures recognized by Disk Drill: .gp - Guitar Pro 8 Tablature and .musx - Finale Music Notation files
iOS scan can now recognize and include geographical location in photo recovery results as well as keychain passwords

Improvements
Minor improvements in iPhone and iPads scanning module for even better user experience
Improved handling of Dropbox files by the Clean Up module
Better presentation of images assigned to the recovered contacts
Better recovery chances prediction for the files recovered from BTRFS file systems
Much improved .potm files detection and therefore their subsequent recovery
Overall scanning speed improvements by approximately 5%
Subtle improvements of the app interface visuals, responsiveness and usability throughout.
Purgeable space is now taken into consideration when determining how much free space is available on disk
Better detection of operating systems on scanned NAS devices
Better handling of NAS devices set up with DRBD system
Overall improvements for data recovery from Android devices
Better detection of the following file signatures during scan: .potx, .ppsm, .pptm, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsm, .xlsb
Disk Drill stability on macOS Big Sur
Optimized the display of information about NAS devices and their elements


Fixes
Corrected some issues when attempting recovery from locked notes on iOS devices
Fixed Disk Drill running out of memory on rare occasions while scanning for lost contacts, and other non-file entities
Random occurrences of the detected lost partitions not being displayed in dashboard during scan
Crash during scan when a .zip file was found
Data Protection module was not always displaying all supported partitions
Randomly occurring issue in Clean Up module upon dashboard refresh
Rare crash when items were dragged to caddy in Clean Up module
Eliminated the Dylib Hijack Scanner vulnerability in a third-party analytics library
Sorting status for the Disk list not saved
Excessively long scan of Fusion Drive has been fixed
5.5.900

May 07, 2024

New
Completely new NAS recovery algorithm. Disk Drill can now connect to NAS devices via SSH protocol and securely scan the connected drives and RAID units
Completely new Linux Recovery algorithm. Disk Drill now connects to Linux OS via SSH protocol in order to securely scan the connected drives and RAIDs
BTRFS RAID systems are now fully supported
New file signatures recognized by Disk Drill: .gp - Guitar Pro 8 Tablature and .musx - Finale Music Notation files
Advanced settings for SMART monitoring for JMICRON USB RAID units

Improvements
Greatly improved filtering of scan results in different view modes
The .potm file signature detection during scan has been improved
Multiple enhancements in user interaction with the Disk Drill interface. Lots of responsiveness updates throughout
Better detection of the following file signatures during scan: .potx, .ppsm, .pptm, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsm, .xlsb
EXT4 journals are scanned at a faster speed now
General info section for RAID arrays now contains more data
Detection and display of RAID child units when the RAID had several partitions
Possibility to show/hide hidden items and their information on disks
The view of all detected storage devices are now expanded for better visual convenience
Now you won't miss a Disk Drill update thanks to improved check for updates mechanism

Fixes
Issues with failed recovery of the files that originally had reserved names as the filenames
Unsuitable storage devices showing up in Clean Up module
A crash occurring in Clean Up module when several drives were connected simultaneously and Quick Access folders were deleted
A random app crash occurring if a critical SMART notice has been clicked while in Clean Up module
Offline license activation issues
Scan statuses not fully displayed during the scan with the app window size set to default
Minor interface flaws have been fixed here and there
Right-click menu options not always corresponding to the recovery options available at the time
Disabled recovery chances filter for the recovery session with the chances calculated during scan, after the source drive had been disconnected from computer
Random crashes occurring during the scan of .eml files
At times, already deleted folders were still displayed in Clean Up module
Free Features
Basic
  • Data Protection
  • Boot Drive
  • macOS Installer
  • Data Backup
  • Data Clean Up
  • Data Shredder
  • Free Space Eraser
  • Duplicate Finder
Free Features Disk Drill Mac
Basic
  • FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
  • All recovery methods with a cap
  • Recovery Vault data protection
  • Undelete protected data
  • Backup failing disks
Free Features Disk Drill Windows
Premium features (Buy Disk Drill for Mac and get the Windows version free)
PRO

US$89

  • 1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
  • Quick & Deep Scan
  • Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
  • Lost Partition Search & more
  • All media types and file systems
PRO

US$89

  • UNLIMITED PERSONAL RECOVERY, 1 USER
  • Quick and Deep Scan
  • Lost partition search
  • All file systems (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT3/4 etc.)
Reconstructs 400+ file formats
Enterprise

US$499

  • 10 USERS, ∞ MACS
  • Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.
Forensic data export (DFXML)
Enterprise

US$499

  • UNLIMITED COMMERCIAL RECOVERY
  • 10 users
  • All PRO features
  • Priority support

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • macOS 10.15.7-14.x Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.7 • Mac OS X 10.11.6–macOS 12.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.8 • Mac OS X 10.9.5–macOS 10.15.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.7 • Mac OS X 10.8.5–10.9.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.4 • Mac OS X 10.6.8–10.8.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 1.8 • Mac OS X 10.5–10.6.7 Direct Download

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • Windows 10 64-bit/11 64-bit Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista Direct Download
Summary

Disk Drill for Mac

Disk Drill data recovery for Mac OS X locates and recovers deleted files from any mountable media like your main drive, external hard disk, memory cards, iPods, iPhones and Android devices, etc.

Release notes
View all release notes
5.5.1517

May 07, 2024

New
Disk Drill 5.5 brings on lots of fine tuning of interface and overall app performance
New file signatures recognized by Disk Drill: .gp - Guitar Pro 8 Tablature and .musx - Finale Music Notation files
iOS scan can now recognize and include geographical location in photo recovery results as well as keychain passwords

Improvements
Minor improvements in iPhone and iPads scanning module for even better user experience
Improved handling of Dropbox files by the Clean Up module
Better presentation of images assigned to the recovered contacts
Better recovery chances prediction for the files recovered from BTRFS file systems
Much improved .potm files detection and therefore their subsequent recovery
Overall scanning speed improvements by approximately 5%
Subtle improvements of the app interface visuals, responsiveness and usability throughout.
Purgeable space is now taken into consideration when determining how much free space is available on disk
Better detection of operating systems on scanned NAS devices
Better handling of NAS devices set up with DRBD system
Overall improvements for data recovery from Android devices
Better detection of the following file signatures during scan: .potx, .ppsm, .pptm, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsm, .xlsb
Disk Drill stability on macOS Big Sur
Optimized the display of information about NAS devices and their elements


Fixes
Corrected some issues when attempting recovery from locked notes on iOS devices
Fixed Disk Drill running out of memory on rare occasions while scanning for lost contacts, and other non-file entities
Random occurrences of the detected lost partitions not being displayed in dashboard during scan
Crash during scan when a .zip file was found
Data Protection module was not always displaying all supported partitions
Randomly occurring issue in Clean Up module upon dashboard refresh
Rare crash when items were dragged to caddy in Clean Up module
Eliminated the Dylib Hijack Scanner vulnerability in a third-party analytics library
Sorting status for the Disk list not saved
Excessively long scan of Fusion Drive has been fixed
System requirements

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • macOS 10.15.7-14.x Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.7 • Mac OS X 10.11.6–macOS 12.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.8 • Mac OS X 10.9.5–macOS 10.15.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.7 • Mac OS X 10.8.5–10.9.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.4 • Mac OS X 10.6.8–10.8.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 1.8 • Mac OS X 10.5–10.6.7 Direct Download
Free Features
Basic
  • Data Protection
  • Boot Drive
  • macOS Installer
  • Data Backup
  • Data Clean Up
  • Data Shredder
  • Free Space Eraser
  • Duplicate Finder
Free Features Disk Drill Mac
Premium features (Buy Disk Drill for Mac and get the Windows version free)
PRO

US$89

  • 1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
  • Quick & Deep Scan
  • Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
  • Lost Partition Search & more
  • All media types and file systems
Enterprise

US$499

  • 10 USERS, ∞ MACS
  • Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.
Forensic data export (DFXML)

Disk Drill for Windows

Disk Drill can recover any deleted file if it hasn't been overwritten: photos, music, documents, archives, application specific OS X and Windows formats.

Release notes
View all release notes
5.5.900

May 07, 2024

New
Completely new NAS recovery algorithm. Disk Drill can now connect to NAS devices via SSH protocol and securely scan the connected drives and RAID units
Completely new Linux Recovery algorithm. Disk Drill now connects to Linux OS via SSH protocol in order to securely scan the connected drives and RAIDs
BTRFS RAID systems are now fully supported
New file signatures recognized by Disk Drill: .gp - Guitar Pro 8 Tablature and .musx - Finale Music Notation files
Advanced settings for SMART monitoring for JMICRON USB RAID units

Improvements
Greatly improved filtering of scan results in different view modes
The .potm file signature detection during scan has been improved
Multiple enhancements in user interaction with the Disk Drill interface. Lots of responsiveness updates throughout
Better detection of the following file signatures during scan: .potx, .ppsm, .pptm, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsm, .xlsb
EXT4 journals are scanned at a faster speed now
General info section for RAID arrays now contains more data
Detection and display of RAID child units when the RAID had several partitions
Possibility to show/hide hidden items and their information on disks
The view of all detected storage devices are now expanded for better visual convenience
Now you won't miss a Disk Drill update thanks to improved check for updates mechanism

Fixes
Issues with failed recovery of the files that originally had reserved names as the filenames
Unsuitable storage devices showing up in Clean Up module
A crash occurring in Clean Up module when several drives were connected simultaneously and Quick Access folders were deleted
A random app crash occurring if a critical SMART notice has been clicked while in Clean Up module
Offline license activation issues
Scan statuses not fully displayed during the scan with the app window size set to default
Minor interface flaws have been fixed here and there
Right-click menu options not always corresponding to the recovery options available at the time
Disabled recovery chances filter for the recovery session with the chances calculated during scan, after the source drive had been disconnected from computer
Random crashes occurring during the scan of .eml files
At times, already deleted folders were still displayed in Clean Up module
System requirements

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • Windows 10 64-bit/11 64-bit Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista Direct Download
Free Features
Basic
  • FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
  • All recovery methods with a cap
  • Recovery Vault data protection
  • Undelete protected data
  • Backup failing disks
Free Features Disk Drill Windows
Premium features (Buy Disk Drill for Mac and get the Windows version free)
PRO

US$89

  • UNLIMITED PERSONAL RECOVERY, 1 USER
  • Quick and Deep Scan
  • Lost partition search
  • All file systems (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT3/4 etc.)
Reconstructs 400+ file formats
Enterprise

US$499

  • UNLIMITED COMMERCIAL RECOVERY
  • 10 users
  • All PRO features
  • Priority support
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Mac App Icon
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Site Icon for Mac
Site Icon for Mac
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Windows App Icon
Windows App Icon
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Boxshot for Windows
Boxshot for Windows
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Screenshots
Disk list on Mac OS
Welcome to Disk Drill for Mac
Searching for lost data in Disk Drill for Windows
Enumerating available devices in Disk Drill for Windows

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Disk Drill for Mac

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Welcome to Disk Drill for Mac

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Disk Drill for Windows

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Windows App Icon
Windows App Icon
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Boxshot for Windows
Boxshot for Windows
256x256 PNG

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Searching for lost data in Disk Drill for Windows
Enumerating available devices in Disk Drill for Windows

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