So you downloaded Disk Drill because you probably lost a file, a folder, or maybe even a partition. Now, whatever you need to recover needs to be found promptly, so it is not overwritten with new data and is as close to its original condition as possible.
Select the storage device you’ll be scanning in Disk Drill and click the “Search for lost data” button at the bottom right. Depending on the device size, scanning might take some time.
Depending on how much time has passed since the sought data was lost and how actively the drive was used, some bits of deleted files might have been overwritten. And even if the scan results might not look the same as the originals did before they were lost, as the names and file structure are not always preserved, your file can still be there, all intact, just waiting to be recovered.
Now, let’s see how to search through the scan results and find your lost items.
Once Disk Drill finalizes the scan process and you click the “Review found items” button you’ll be taken to the scan results.
This is where Disk Drill shows you everything it could find during the scan. These files have not been recovered yet.
There are several simple ways to navigate your scan results. On the left you can browse and filter them by file types: images, documents, etc. This filters the found items in the main window, where they are grouped by the scanning methods applied by Disk Drill in the current session.
At this point if you can remember the name of the sought file, your best option is to use the search box at the top right and see if you can find it right away. Sometimes files can be recovered with their original names, which is ideal, but not always possible.
If the file you were searching for doesn’t show up in the main list under its original name, that doesn’t mean your file wasn’t found by Disk Drill – in many cases the original file names are not recoverable, unfortunately. File extensions can be tricky too. Here is what you can do next.
And don’t forget that we have a group of wonderful people in our support team that are always there to help! Email them at help@cleverfiles.com or chat with them at https://www.cleverfiles.com if you are not quite sure how to find your deleted files.
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