The new Disk Drill – version 1.1

We are ready to unveil our new shiny Disk Drill 1.1! We’ve added a whole lot of new features, powered up the user interface, polished a number of data recovery aspects, changed scanning and recovery dialogs, and made a ton of smaller improvements and fixes. A lot of ideas were inspired by our beta users. And many of active participants of our beta campaign are getting free lifetime licenses for Disk Drill PRO within a day or two. Here’s a peek to Disk Drill 1.1:

You can get the update right now, and read on to learn the specifics of the new release.

Here’s what kept us busy all these months:

• new totally new Deep Scan algorithm
• new a number of file signatures added to known ones (NEF, CR2, MOV, PAGES, PST, AI and many others among them)
• new recovery and scanning sessions management
• new any media can now be backed up into a mountable DMG image for further scanning and recovery
• new searching and filtering in scanning results for simpler selection of recovery items
• new S.M.A.R.T. disk diagnostics added for better pre-failure hard disks monitoring and reporting
• new Portable Mode introduced, so that you can install Disk Drill without Recovery Vault and anywhere you like, launching it from a Flash drive for instance
• new recovery from Classic iPod’s is available now
• new scanning and recovery dialogs are now interactive and provide real-time preview of found files
• improved recovery progress bar is now much more informative
• improved total recovery size is now calculated and displayed
• improved found folders now show total size during scanning
• improved background scanning and recovery is now implemented, you can minimize Disk Drill any time
• improved Deep Scan is much faster now
• improved much better BMP files recovery
• improved better handling of incorrectly unmounted disks and USB drives
• improved Recovery Vault database last update date is now available in the disk’s info
• improved more notifications in Growl
• improved detection of an outdated Recovery Vault and correct notification about this
• improved support: greatly improved recovery of raw image formats of various cameras (CR2, RW2, NEF, etc)
• fixed another bunch of minor and major issues, crashes and exceptions

We hope you find the new Disk Drill effective and simple as always. Many users who tried the new release during a beta phase, or when testing fixes for reported issues outlined essential improvement in scanning speed, and we are truly proud we managed to accomplish this. Along with improved data recovery quality, this makes it a worthy update.

As always, we are just a click away from you, get in touch.
Download the all-new Disk Drill now, or go directly for one of our paid Editions.

Thank you

P.S. Hm. Are you still interested in using the old buggy beta version? No problem, we don’t mind. Here you go. No support though.