Disk Drill 6.0 offers a new Advanced Camera Recovery module as well as revamped Backup module. Improved detection of various types of partitions and data recovery from different sources including iOS.
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New
- Advanced Camera Recovery – introducing the recovery of fragment-deleted videos and photos from cameras, drones, dashcams, smart telescopes, microscopes, and other camera-equipped devices
- Revamped byte-to-byte backups – engineered for recovery, enhanced fault tolerance, and a fresh, visually rich interface
- ReFS lost partition recovery – more data restored, more meta-information salvaged
- The Nikon N-RAW (NEV) video format is now supported by Deep Scan, along with enhancements to over 100 file signatures for broader and more intelligent recovery
- Hex View added for advanced disk and partition analysis – ideal for raw, low-level inspection of data integrity and device condition
- Targeted recovery from BitLocker-enabled Windows partitions
- Support for Bonjour (zero-configuration networking) and mDNS (local network discovery) added – Disk Drill now automatically detects network devices for remote recovery over SSH
- Added certificate validity check for legacy macOS distributions in the macOS Installer module
Improvements
- Support for discovery and scanning of exFAT partitions
- Disk Drill compatibility in Recovery Mode across modern Mac models
- Detection of damaged exFAT partitions that were previously misidentified as RAW, along with a significant improvement in recovery success rates
- Detection of lost NTFS partitions
- Quick and Deep Scan results are now intelligently merged during a Universal Scan to prevent file duplication
- Automatic RAID array reconstruction is now supported during remote recovery over SSH
- The sidebar, interface controls, list elements, preview pane, navigation flow, filter system, and icon set have all been refined to deliver a more streamlined and modernized user experience
- RAID1 EXT2 detection
- NTFS partition detection when MBR is wiped
- Detection of disk disconnection to notify a user that the current scan cannot be resumed
- Data reading/extraction from VHDX disk and partition images
- Speed and memory usage in Time Machine-specific scan operations
Fixes
- Missing Call History extraction in iOS 18.3
- Crash when requesting new Network Access permission on macOS 15
- Memory leaks during exFAT scanning operations
- Sorting issues when recovering from iOS and iPadOS devices
- Resolved a hang in Disk Drill’s portable mode when scanning the Guaranteed Recovery and Recovery Vault database on system drives
- Occasional crash when parsing JPG file signature metadata within Deep Scan operations
- Broken sorting for expanded folders containing less than 1,000 files
- Rare crash when scanning APFS-formatted disks
- Repeated “disk offline” warnings when loading sessions
- Incorrect notification about interrupted scan when a disk is disconnected
- Auto-selection of the backup source when navigating from the bad sector warning for the current disk
- Improper notification about interrupted scan when the scan had already completed successfully
- “Back” button not returning to the disk list if the scanned disk had been disconnected
- Rare exception when saving a session of a scanned device
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.updated: June 24, 2025 author: