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Simple enough for casual users but more than capable of delivering professional results, Disk Drill 5 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 5 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.

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5.4.1426

Dec 22, 2023

New
The Clean Up module is completely revamped with a completely new way of visualizing your disk and locating space hogs, we call it “Tiles”
Disk Drill now offers NAS data recovery over the SSH protocol and can scan the connected drives and RAID storages
Disk Drill now offers Linux data recovery via the SSH protocol and can scan the connected drives and RAID storages
New scan type in Disk Drill! We are always working on recovering more lost data from Mac system drives. You can now undelete your Contacts from the macOS app. More data categories will follow
RAIDs with Btrfs are now supported and Disk Drill can recover recently deleted files and deleted partitions
Many Disk Drill icons and visuals got new looks
Disk Drill’s Deep Scan can now recover MBS (Opera Mailbox File) and EML (electronic mail format or email saved in plain text) files

Improvements
Better handling of macOS devices that run on unsupported or modified macOS like Hackintosh
Improved internal processes when verifying iOS backup passwords during iPhone and iPad data recovery
Better reconstructing and labeling for the following file signatures: MBOX, EMLX, EWD, and RTF
Improved scanning of encrypted and unencrypted DMG and Sparse Image files with Apple Partition Map Scheme, GPT and MBR tables
Enhanced recovery for PDF files with a non-standard XRef table size
Improved recovery for encrypted SXI, SXD, SXC, SXW files
Encrypted ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG files are detected and recovered even better now
Better recovery for encrypted DOCX, XLSX, PPTX files
Improved recovery for encrypted XMind files
Improved detection of unencrypted hybrid DMG files
Detection and recovery for XLS files created in MS Excel 2008 on macOS renders even better results now
Recovery chances calculation for PPT files is now even more accurate
Better discovery and recovery in Disk Drill iOS module for WhatsApp and Line messenger attachments
Updated SSD Health Level and other improvements in the Disk Drill’s S.M.A.R.T. monitoring widget
Optimized default display settings for discovered files
iOS scan module got some improvements, including Skype chats recovery
Minor improvements in Disk Drill's dark theme
General UI localization improvements throughout
Much better iOS scanning stability, including detecting device disconnects
Backward compatibility for scan sessions created in newer versions of Disk Drill
Optimized recovery from NTFS partitions with damaged MFT (master file table)
Subtle improvements in files and folders navigation and filtration
Find Duplicates module is significantly improved

Fixes
Occasional crashes when scanning for PNG or MXF files
Occasional glitches after interrupted iOS scan
Occasional crashes when scanning FAT32 partitions and the scanned drive disconnects
Occasional app freezing when a FLAC file type was discovered
Minor issues with RAM during EXT4 system scan
Exception error when scanning for RTF files
Occasional crashes during NTFS system scan for lost partitions
5.4.844

Jan 06, 2024

New
Introducing the Clean Up module that will keep your drives clutter-free
New look for Disk Drill icons and visuals
Significant updates for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring module: added support for AMD RAIDXpert2, Intel VROC, JMicron USB RAID, Sandisk/WD CloudSpeed Gen II SSD, as well as other 16 devices
Disk Drill’s Deep Scan can now recover MBS (Opera Mailbox File), Notes Template Facility (NTF) files, and EML (electronic mail format or email saved in plain text) files

Improvements
S.M.A.R.T. details are now sorted according to disks' IDs by default
Disk Drill installation process has several subtle improvements
The HEX view operations are handled faster now
Interface and menu touch ups throughout Disk Drill's interface
Improved recovery from NTFS partitions with damaged MFT (master file table)
Smoother Disk Drill updates installation
The links in Disk Drill's updater window now properly open in a default web browser
Improved Deep Scan and labeling for MBOX, EMLX, EWD, RTF files
Improved detection of encrypted and unencrypted .sparseimage files with Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Map and Master Boot Record schemes
Improved detection of encrypted and unencrypted .dmg files with Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Map and Master Boot Record schemes
Improved Deep Scan for PDF files with Xref table that is not standardly sized
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .sxi, .sxd, .sxc, .sxw file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .odt, .ods, .odp, .odg file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .docx, .xlsx, .pptx file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .xmind file signatures
Improved Deep Scan detection of .xls file signature created in MacOS MSExcel 2008
Better recovery chance prediction for the .ppt files

Fixes
Deep Scan processes have been revised and minor fixes applied
Minor crashes when Quick Scan labeled a file with unacceptable characters
Occasional crash when scanning the .eml file signatures
Occasional crash when scanning certain .doc file signatures
Exceptions while deep scanning the .rtf file signatures
Hide duplicates menu option behavior during certain types of scan has been fixed
Occasional crash occurring when a drive got disconnected at the time of recovery destination selection
Fixed the incorrect behavior of scan pause/stop button at the time of drive disconnect
Random crash when the hex view window was open and the scanned drive was disconnected
Occasional crash when trying to open a session file that got corrupted
Possible freezing of the app upon Deep Scan detection of .flac file signature
Occasional crash during the recovery of lost NTFS partitions
Free Features
Basic
  • Data Protection
  • Boot Drive
  • macOS Installer
  • Data Backup
  • Data Clean Up
  • Data Shredder
  • Free Space Eraser
  • Duplicate Finder
Free Features Disk Drill Mac
Basic
  • FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
  • All recovery methods with a cap
  • Recovery Vault data protection
  • Undelete protected data
  • Backup failing disks
Free Features Disk Drill Windows
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

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • macOS 10.15.7-14.x Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.7 • Mac OS X 10.11.6–macOS 12.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.8 • Mac OS X 10.9.5–macOS 10.15.6 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: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • Windows 10 64-bit/11 64-bit Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista Direct Download
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.

Release notes
View all release notes
5.4.1426

Dec 22, 2023

New
The Clean Up module is completely revamped with a completely new way of visualizing your disk and locating space hogs, we call it “Tiles”
Disk Drill now offers NAS data recovery over the SSH protocol and can scan the connected drives and RAID storages
Disk Drill now offers Linux data recovery via the SSH protocol and can scan the connected drives and RAID storages
New scan type in Disk Drill! We are always working on recovering more lost data from Mac system drives. You can now undelete your Contacts from the macOS app. More data categories will follow
RAIDs with Btrfs are now supported and Disk Drill can recover recently deleted files and deleted partitions
Many Disk Drill icons and visuals got new looks
Disk Drill’s Deep Scan can now recover MBS (Opera Mailbox File) and EML (electronic mail format or email saved in plain text) files

Improvements
Better handling of macOS devices that run on unsupported or modified macOS like Hackintosh
Improved internal processes when verifying iOS backup passwords during iPhone and iPad data recovery
Better reconstructing and labeling for the following file signatures: MBOX, EMLX, EWD, and RTF
Improved scanning of encrypted and unencrypted DMG and Sparse Image files with Apple Partition Map Scheme, GPT and MBR tables
Enhanced recovery for PDF files with a non-standard XRef table size
Improved recovery for encrypted SXI, SXD, SXC, SXW files
Encrypted ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG files are detected and recovered even better now
Better recovery for encrypted DOCX, XLSX, PPTX files
Improved recovery for encrypted XMind files
Improved detection of unencrypted hybrid DMG files
Detection and recovery for XLS files created in MS Excel 2008 on macOS renders even better results now
Recovery chances calculation for PPT files is now even more accurate
Better discovery and recovery in Disk Drill iOS module for WhatsApp and Line messenger attachments
Updated SSD Health Level and other improvements in the Disk Drill’s S.M.A.R.T. monitoring widget
Optimized default display settings for discovered files
iOS scan module got some improvements, including Skype chats recovery
Minor improvements in Disk Drill's dark theme
General UI localization improvements throughout
Much better iOS scanning stability, including detecting device disconnects
Backward compatibility for scan sessions created in newer versions of Disk Drill
Optimized recovery from NTFS partitions with damaged MFT (master file table)
Subtle improvements in files and folders navigation and filtration
Find Duplicates module is significantly improved

Fixes
Occasional crashes when scanning for PNG or MXF files
Occasional glitches after interrupted iOS scan
Occasional crashes when scanning FAT32 partitions and the scanned drive disconnects
Occasional app freezing when a FLAC file type was discovered
Minor issues with RAM during EXT4 system scan
Exception error when scanning for RTF files
Occasional crashes during NTFS system scan for lost partitions
System requirements

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • macOS 10.15.7-14.x Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.7 • Mac OS X 10.11.6–macOS 12.6 Direct Download
Disk Drill 3.8 • Mac OS X 10.9.5–macOS 10.15.6 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
Free Features
Basic
  • Data Protection
  • Boot Drive
  • macOS Installer
  • Data Backup
  • Data Clean Up
  • Data Shredder
  • Free Space Eraser
  • Duplicate Finder
Free Features Disk Drill Mac
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
Enterprise

US$499

  • 10 USERS, ∞ MACS
  • Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.
Forensic data export (DFXML)

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
5.4.844

Jan 06, 2024

New
Introducing the Clean Up module that will keep your drives clutter-free
New look for Disk Drill icons and visuals
Significant updates for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring module: added support for AMD RAIDXpert2, Intel VROC, JMicron USB RAID, Sandisk/WD CloudSpeed Gen II SSD, as well as other 16 devices
Disk Drill’s Deep Scan can now recover MBS (Opera Mailbox File), Notes Template Facility (NTF) files, and EML (electronic mail format or email saved in plain text) files

Improvements
S.M.A.R.T. details are now sorted according to disks' IDs by default
Disk Drill installation process has several subtle improvements
The HEX view operations are handled faster now
Interface and menu touch ups throughout Disk Drill's interface
Improved recovery from NTFS partitions with damaged MFT (master file table)
Smoother Disk Drill updates installation
The links in Disk Drill's updater window now properly open in a default web browser
Improved Deep Scan and labeling for MBOX, EMLX, EWD, RTF files
Improved detection of encrypted and unencrypted .sparseimage files with Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Map and Master Boot Record schemes
Improved detection of encrypted and unencrypted .dmg files with Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Map and Master Boot Record schemes
Improved Deep Scan for PDF files with Xref table that is not standardly sized
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .sxi, .sxd, .sxc, .sxw file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .odt, .ods, .odp, .odg file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .docx, .xlsx, .pptx file signatures
Improved Deep Scan for encrypted .xmind file signatures
Improved Deep Scan detection of .xls file signature created in MacOS MSExcel 2008
Better recovery chance prediction for the .ppt files

Fixes
Deep Scan processes have been revised and minor fixes applied
Minor crashes when Quick Scan labeled a file with unacceptable characters
Occasional crash when scanning the .eml file signatures
Occasional crash when scanning certain .doc file signatures
Exceptions while deep scanning the .rtf file signatures
Hide duplicates menu option behavior during certain types of scan has been fixed
Occasional crash occurring when a drive got disconnected at the time of recovery destination selection
Fixed the incorrect behavior of scan pause/stop button at the time of drive disconnect
Random crash when the hex view window was open and the scanned drive was disconnected
Occasional crash when trying to open a session file that got corrupted
Possible freezing of the app upon Deep Scan detection of .flac file signature
Occasional crash during the recovery of lost NTFS partitions
System requirements

Disk Space: 1GB minimum space for Disk Drill Data Recovery installation

CPU: 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) compatible CPU 1.0 GHz or faster

RAM: at least 4GB

Disk Drill 5.x • Windows 10 64-bit/11 64-bit Direct Download
Disk Drill 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista Direct Download
Free Features
Basic
  • FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
  • All recovery methods with a cap
  • Recovery Vault data protection
  • Undelete protected data
  • Backup failing disks
Free Features Disk Drill Windows
Premium features (Buy Disk Drill for Mac and get the Windows version free)
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

  • UNLIMITED COMMERCIAL RECOVERY
  • 10 users
  • All PRO features
  • Priority support
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Mac App Icon
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Site Icon for Mac
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Windows App Icon
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Boxshot for Windows
Boxshot for Windows
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Welcome to Disk Drill for Mac
Searching for lost data in Disk Drill for Windows
Enumerating available devices in Disk Drill for Windows

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Welcome to Disk Drill for Mac

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Disk Drill for Windows

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Windows App Icon
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Boxshot for Windows
Boxshot for Windows
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Searching for lost data in Disk Drill for Windows
Enumerating available devices in Disk Drill for Windows

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