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About Disk Drill

Simple enough for casual users but more than capable of delivering professional results, Disk Drill 4 is the ultimate data recovery and protection app both for macOS and Windows.

From permanently deleted work documents that took many hours to create to accidentally formatted USB flash drives and memory cards with irreplaceable family images and videos, Disk Drill 4 can quickly solve all data loss situations, regardless of how serious they may seem to be.

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Summary

Disk Drill for Mac

Disk Drill data recovery for Mac OS X locates and recovers deleted files from any mountable media like your main drive, external hard disk, memory cards, iPods, iPhones and Android devices, etc.

Disk Drill for Windows

Disk Drill can recover any deleted file if it hasn't been overwritten: photos, music, documents, archives, application specific OS X and Windows formats.

Release notes View all release notes

4.0.130

2020-10-29

Improved:
Detection of APFS drives with bad sectors
EXIF metadata processing for DeepTIFF signature
Recovery and detection stability for deep-scanning of TIFF, JPG and X3F image formats
Several Data Shredder issues on macOS 10.11
Scan session saving and managing
Support of corrupted OS X Fuse installation
Multiple internal Byte-to-Byte Backup stabilizations and fixes
Managing HFS+ disks disconnecting right after rebuild before displaying its results
HFS+ scanner could hang while reading deleted files' attributes
Internal Duplicate Finder algorithms
iOS 14.1 support

Fixed:
Random crashes while deep-scanning DTPartitions
Crash when clicking system notifications related to recovery sessions
Random crashes when initiating the recovery after completing the scan
Occasional freezes in Clean Up module during scans
Random crashes related to Time Capsule and Time Machine activity
Accidental crash when selecting recovered files while the scan was still in progress
Unsystematic crash when unmounting iOS devices
Crash when Disk Drill is blocked from accessing the Internet

4.0.537

2020-09-24

New
Better navigation with the updated right-click menu in the disk list
Support for disk health monitoring on Intel RST NVMe RAID drives
Extended parameters for disk health reports - TRIM, Volatile Write Cache report for NVMe SSD drives, and 4K Sector
Several disk health parameters added to S.M.A.R.T. tab for SSD drives - total host reads, total host writes, overall health and life timespan estimates
Real-time drive temperature monitoring in the S.M.A.R.T. tab

Improvements
Continuous NTFS scanning and recovery improvements
Data detection accuracy when recovering from FAT32 partitions
S.M.A.R.T.-based disk monitoring for Kingston, WD, SanDisk, Transcend, Seagate, and other manufacturers
INDD and ICO file format reconstruction in Deep Scan
Scan and recovery resuming
More than 25% smaller installer
Detection and loading of a dependent Dokan library, required for disk virtualization and scan results mounting
Timestamp detection and replication for deleted files during Deep Scan
Rrecovery and labeling of HEIC/HEIF image format generated by mobile Samsung devices
Auto-saving recovery sessions when scanning drives with little data
Indication of paused scans in the taskbar (yellow icon background)
Visual feedback when searching and filtering recoverable items
Hints and labels when selecting the recovery destination
Overall app responsiveness and usability, e.g. ESC key closing the preview window
Recovery won't start if source drives disconnect while selecting the destination recovery folder
Selection consistency in scan results
Indication and control locking when loading saved sessions
Preview panel no longer lags and shows more consistently
File selection in saved/loaded scan sessions

Fixes
Some sporadic crashes in JPG and TIFF detection engine
Disk Drill returns read/write status to drives accidentally disconnected while scanning after the scan is over
A bunch of known S.M.A.R.T. issues
Select/Deselect options behavior in scan results
Proper disabling of "Recover" option for disconnected drives
Random crash on byte-to-byte backup creation completion
Random crash on right-click in disk list
Occasional crashes on quick HFS+ scans and preview
Occasional crashes while deep-scanning for JPG and TIFF files
Random crash on Disk Drill start and disk enumeration
"Recover" and "Recover All" buttons could stay deactivated when certain storage devices were reconnected
App crash when entering empty categories in scan results
Crash on missing default programs for TXT and LOG files in the end-user's systems

Free Features

Basic

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

Basic

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

Premium features (Buy Disk Drill for Mac and get the Windows version free)

PRO

US$89

1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
Quick & Deep Scan
Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
Lost Partition Search & more
All media types and file systems

PRO

US$89

UNLIMITED PERSONAL RECOVERY, 1 USER
Quick and Deep Scan
Lost partition search
All file systems (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT3/4 etc.)
Reconstructs 400+ file formats

Enterprise

US$499

10 USERS, ∞ MACS
Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.

Forensic data export (DFXML)

Enterprise

US$499

UNLIMITED COMMERCIAL RECOVERY
10 users
All PRO features
Priority support

System requirements Full system requirements chart

Disk Space: 150 Mb minimum free space
CPU: at least with x86
RAM: at least 128MB

Disk Drill 4.x • Mac OS X 10.11.6–11.0 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.8 • Mac OS X 10.9.5–10.11.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.7 • Mac OS X 10.8.5–10.9.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.4 • Mac OS X 10.6.8–10.8.4 Direct Download
Disk Drill 1.8 • Mac OS X 10.5–10.6.7 Direct Download

Disk Space: 30MB minimum free space
CPU: at least with x86
RAM: at least 128MB

Disk Drill 4.0: Windows 7 SP1/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.x: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 Direct Download

Disk Drill for Mac

Disk Drill data recovery for Mac OS X locates and recovers deleted files from any mountable media like your main drive, external hard disk, memory cards, iPods, iPhones and Android devices, etc.

Release notes View all

4.0.130

2020-10-29

Improved:
Detection of APFS drives with bad sectors
EXIF metadata processing for DeepTIFF signature
Recovery and detection stability for deep-scanning of TIFF, JPG and X3F image formats
Several Data Shredder issues on macOS 10.11
Scan session saving and managing
Support of corrupted OS X Fuse installation
Multiple internal Byte-to-Byte Backup stabilizations and fixes
Managing HFS+ disks disconnecting right after rebuild before displaying its results
HFS+ scanner could hang while reading deleted files' attributes
Internal Duplicate Finder algorithms
iOS 14.1 support

Fixed:
Random crashes while deep-scanning DTPartitions
Crash when clicking system notifications related to recovery sessions
Random crashes when initiating the recovery after completing the scan
Occasional freezes in Clean Up module during scans
Random crashes related to Time Capsule and Time Machine activity
Accidental crash when selecting recovered files while the scan was still in progress
Unsystematic crash when unmounting iOS devices
Crash when Disk Drill is blocked from accessing the Internet

System Requirements

Disk Space: 150 Mb minimum free space
CPU: at least with x86
RAM: at least 128MB

Disk Drill 4.0: Mac OS X 10.11.6-11.0 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.x: Mac OS X 10.8.5-10.15.7 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.4: Mac OS X 10.6.8-10.11.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 1.8: Mac OS X 10.5-10.6.8 Direct Download

Free Features

Basic

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

Pay packages

PRO

US$89

1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
Quick & Deep Scan
Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
Lost Partition Search & more
All media types and file systems

Enterprise

US$499

10 USERS, ∞ MACS
Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.

Forensic data export (DFXML)

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