Disk Drill Press Kit

Apr 27, 2021

New:

Disk Drill now runs natively on M1 Macs

Deep Scan extends PDF and AI file formats labeling

Improved:

Support of the new osxfuse/macFUSE version 4

DOC, TTF, and PUB file formats recovery with Deep Scan

DNG/RAW image formats preview on older macOS versions, 10.11-10.14

Reinstated and enhanced S.M.A.R.T. monitoring for internal drives

Updating the app no longer requires user credentials

Enhanced scanning of SIP-protected drives on macOS Big Sur with T2 and M1

Deep Scan yields more recoverable files when scanning T2-protected system partitions

System drives' scanning when running Disk Drill in macOS Recovery

Scanning devices with ZFS file system

Scan session auto-saving when switching to drive backup in case of failing media

Overall UI improvements when resizing the main Disk Drill window

RTF file format recognition within Deep

Scan was missing font detection

Built-in preview functionality for M1 devices running Big Sur

Multiple security improvements in Disk Drill's updater

Recovery of encrypted system APFS Fusion

Drives when booting from external media

Better Hide Duplicates filter in recovery results

Duplicator Finder scanning and overall speed

Clean Up and Data Protection modules compatibility

Backup creation resuming

Several Dark Mode improvements in iOS scan results

PUB signature deep scan accuracy detection

DOC signature deep scan stability

Clean Up mode and Duplicate Finder no longer accept folders from physically damaged drives

Backup files appending

Removed unnecessary scroll bars in Disk

Drill's main UI when resized into its minimal state

First-time Disk Drill installation procedure

System extension (kext) updates

Stability enchantments when detecting connected devices

Disk Drill's information overlays

Fixed:

A couple of minor visual glitches in the Disk Drill installer

System extension (kext) deployment on clean M1 Macs without Rosetta sub-system

Recovery from NTFS compressed drives

File preview and hex mode are available for long file names and paths (255 bytes or more)

Clean Up mode and Duplicate Finder could move files to incorrect destination if the original target device was disconnected

Random Deep Scan crashes when detecting TIFF files

Creating backups of physically damaged devices and Android partitions

Backing up android partitions

Backed up APFS container did not list parent containers in the disk list

Occasional stops when mounting APFS containers from DMG disk images

Recovery destination could not be selected in macOS 10.13 while in macOS Recovery

Previews in Duplicator Finder

Scanning failing bad devices

Accidental scans of SIP-protected drives bypassing Disk Drill's system extension (kext) via right-click menu

Exception when hex preview window was not closed on a disconnected drive

• Data Protection
• Boot Drive
• macOS Installer
• Data Backup
• Data Clean Up
• Data Shredder
• Free Space Eraser
• Duplicate Finder

Feb 23, 2021

New

Completely revamped NTFS scanning and recovery module restores more data from formatted drives, corrupted partitions, and other critical data loss cases

Improvements

NTFS scanning now supports compressed volumes

Fluent disk backup progress indication

Recovery Vault data protection initiation

Preview of recoverable files in cases of multiple storage device disconnects while scanning

NTFS scanning status messages

Multiple improvements and fixes when choosing recovery destination folder

PUB files recovery for Microsoft Publisher documents

Deep-scanning for MSI (MS Windows Installer format recovery), DOC (MS Word), and PDF (Portable Document Format) file formats

Installation routines and verification of required files when upgrading from previous versions of Disk Drill

Connection status tracking for scanned storage devices

Disk Drill deinstallation and back-end cleanup

Full target recovery location shown on hover in the final steps of the scanning process

32-bit systems will not scan past 1 million items due to RAM constraints

Fixes

Crash when deleting scan session files from read-only drives

A bunch of other crashes while scanning and running the recovery phase

Crash when starting Disk Drill while its config file was blocked by another process

Crash while recovering RAF files (Fujifilm RAW image data)

Occasional crashes while searching for lost partitions

Crash when reading and updating S.M.A.R.T. disk data

Random crashes when recovering from NTFS drives with enabled compression flags

• FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
• All recovery methods with a cap
• Recovery Vault data protection
• Undelete protected data
• Backup failing disks