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Data Recovery from Damaged or Failing Disks. The Importance of Backups and When to Go to an Expert

Your data is super important – it’s always painful to lose, regardless of the reasons. We are here to ensure its recoverability and provide help and advice. Unfortunately, recovering lost data is not an exact science, and as we usually […]

How To Recover Data From Another Mac in Target Disk Mode with Disk Drill

TL;DR • Intel‑based Macs: You can use Target Disk Mode (TDM) to mount the problem Mac on a healthy “host” Mac, then run Disk Drill on the host to scan and recover data from the target Mac’s internal drive. • […]

Samsung Phone Recovery

Samsung is the leader in the worldwide smartphone market, offering both outstanding budget and mid-range devices as well as cutting-edge flagship models that never fail to receive raving reviews. Considering the popularity of Samsung smartphones, it’s no wonder that Samsung […]

Disk Drill 3.5 for Mac – the Significant Release for macOS 10.13 High Sierra

Last year Apple’s Mac OS X was officially renamed into macOS. And this year we are having the next major macOS, which is High Sierra. Disk Drill is traditionally ready for all the updates in the Apple’s eco-system. But there’s […]

macOS 10.11 – 10.15: Create a Recovery Boot Drive

Create a Recovery Boot Drive Difficulty: Very easy Time required: 15 min or less Extra devices: any USB flash drive, 8GB+ Create a Recovery Boot Drive for macOS 10.11 El Capitan – macOS 10.15 Catalina YouTube | 508 Software Problem […]

On The Verge of SSD Recovery with Disk Drill

You have likely seen computer advertisements or even the specs to your own computer mention an “SSD Drive”. With so many flashy words and complicated terms in computer marketing it’s very easy to ignore all the new and important developments […]

Disk Drill and iOS 10.3

The arrival of Apple’s iOS 10.3 software brings some subtle but welcome changes for Apple products using this operating system including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. However, even though it has a more efficient file system, the overall complexity […]

The Elegance in Competition

Disk Drill is the world’s leading file recovery solution however we have always had stiff competition. We have never seen our competition as a threat but more of a healthy opportunity to grow. Quite frankly we love competition at Disk […]

What is APFS, Apple’s New File System?

APFS (Apple File System) is a new file system for Apple-compatible storage devices such as hard drives, flash drives and other removable storage. APFS, also referred to as APFS MacOS, will work on most MacOS, iOS, tvOS and even watchOS […]

Can I recover deleted email from my iPhone or iPad?

It probably happened to all of us. Trashing an important email takes a tap, and it takes a second to realize it was that very email you might need for tomorrow’s demo, or what not… you may want to recover this […]

Verifying recovery chances for DMG files

An Apple Disk Image (a file with DMG extension) is a disk image widely used in macOS. When opened or double-clicked, an Apple disk image gets “mounted” as a new volume in Finder. When mounted, you would usually see multiple files inside the new volume. […]

Managing Bad Sectors in Disk Drill for macOS — Bad Blocks & Slow Read Blocks Explained

During a scan, Disk Drill’s data‑recovery power engine may temporarily flag certain sectors as bad (also called bad blocks) when repeated read attempts fail. This helps keep the scan fast by skipping unstable areas that would otherwise stall progress. These […]

Disk Drill vs Data Rescue, DiskWarrior, R-Studio. Choose the best data recovery app.

The choice of quality data recovery tools for macOS is in fact limited to several high-end players you have probably heard about: Disk Drill by CleverFiles, Data Rescue by Prosoft, DiskWarrior by Alsoft, Data Recovery Wizard by Easeus, TechTool by Micromat, Stellar Phoenix […]

HFS+ Healing Algorithms in Disk Drill

Disk Drill is a powerful HFS+ data recovery tool, and in addition to regular file recovery from HFS+ partitions, it can actually make an attempt to recover the original partition itself after it was lost or damaged. All available data recovery methods […]

Should I keep using a damaged drive after successful data recovery?

So you have just completed a successful data recovery session with Disk Drill for Mac or Windows from a damaged external drive. Thank you for using our data recovery apps, btw. Now you may ask yourself if you should continue using that drive, […]

Can Recovery Vault be used in forensic research?

Occasionally we are getting requests from various law enforcement organizations throughout the world about Disk Drill and its forensic features. In addition to Forensic Data Export in DFXML format, turns out many are able to utilize other functions of Disk Drill for making our world a […]

Can Disk Drill Recover Data from NAS? NAS Data Recovery via SSH-Enabled Devices

If you’ve ever experienced data loss from a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device, you know just how stressful it can be. Whether it’s accidental deletion, hardware failure, or file corruption, losing data from a NAS can mean downtime and significant headaches. […]

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