This is another massive update to Disk Drill 4 for Windows with more scanning and recovery improvements, new features, better UI, and a ton of fixes. Here’s what we were working on since August:
New
- Improved and updated ExFAT data recovery
- Internal updates in FAT32 and NTFS smart recovery algorithms
- Disk Drill adds initial S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring
- Disk Drill automatically attempts to remount storage devices into read-only mode to prevent further data loss before scanning; manual controls also added
- Deep Scan learns DMF (Geosystem Digitals Map File) and improves on MPO (Multi Picture Object File) and a number of font (TTF, EOT, WOFF, WOFF2, RPP) file formats recovery
Improvements
- JPG image recovery through updated processing of IPTC metadata
- JP2 images recovery
- Disk info updates stabilized when Disk Drill is running
- UI navigation
- Disk Drill now requires less resources when opening and scanning for large image files
- Stabilization improvements when reading damaged hard drives
- UI localizations could interfere with data recovery
- Rrecovery and imaging of Bitlocker-protected partitions
- Hex preview stability
- Lost partition detection and scanning
- Previewing videos and images
- Scan session saving and loading
- Disk unmounting
- Hints for longer disk names and other data fields
Fixes
- Opening links from the app when there’s no default browser set in the system
- Random crashes when attempting to scan a disconnected drive
- Random crashes when reading disk serial number
- Occasional crashes when exiting Disk Drill
- Random crashes when filtering scan results
- 50+ more minor fixes and enhancements
Deepest thanks and appreciation to all our clients, users, testers and developers for making all the new releases possible and exciting!
.updated: March 4, 2021 author: