Like many apps, Disk Drill can be installed either on your Mac’s main hard drive or on another disk, in what is called “portable mode”. The advantages of portable mode are especially significant when you are trying to recover data. It can be used in many situations:
The Disk Drill app is installed on an external disk that is plugged into the computer: this disk could be a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or other storage device. As long as you have that USB drive or hard drive handy, you can recover data from your Mac. If you wish to recover files on a Mac that won’t start up properly, you’ll need to install it on a bootable drive.
You are now ready to begin file recovery. Note that portable mode still needs a Mac OS to run and cannot be launched when connected to other operating systems.
If you recovering from a Mac internal hard drive, refer to our tutorial How to Recover Lost Files from Your Mac Internal Hard Drive. If you are recovering from another device, plug your external drive into a Mac and then following our How to Recover Lost Files with Disk Drill Basic tutorial.
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