Disk Drill 4.2 for Windows – a Ton of Attention to NTFS Recovery

Disk Drill 4.2 for Windows is available for download and update. In this release, we’ve devoted a ton of attention to NTFS recovery and overall scanning stability, including multiple improvements in specific file signatures; fixing some annoying crashes along the way.

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New

Completely revamped NTFS scanning and recovery module restores more data from formatted drives, corrupted partitions, and other critical data loss cases

Improvements

NTFS scanning now supports compressed volumes
Fluent disk backup progress indication
Recovery Vault data protection initiation
Preview of recoverable files in cases of multiple storage device disconnects while scanning
NTFS scanning status messages
Multiple improvements and fixes when choosing recovery destination folder
PUB files recovery for Microsoft Publisher documents
Deep-scanning for MSI (MS Windows Installer format recovery), DOC (MS Word), and PDF (Portable Document Format) file formats
Installation routines and verification of required files when upgrading from previous versions of Disk Drill
Connection status tracking for scanned storage devices
Disk Drill deinstallation and back-end cleanup
Full target recovery location shown on hover in the final steps of the scanning process
32-bit systems will not scan past 1 million items due to RAM constraints

Fixes

Crash when deleting scan session files from read-only drives
A bunch of other crashes while scanning and running the recovery phase
Crash when starting Disk Drill while its config file was blocked by another process
Crash while recovering RAF files (Fujifilm RAW image data)
Occasional crashes while searching for lost partitions
Crash when reading and updating S.M.A.R.T. disk data
Random crashes when recovering from NTFS drives with enabled compression flags

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.updated: June 3, 2021 author: CleverFiles Team