Disk Drill Press Kit
About Disk Drill
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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Download Press KitDisk 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.
Jan 31, 2023
• Faster scans for lost data thanks to new caching algorithms
• Recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
• Lots of new file signatures are now found by Deep Scan, including ZPR, ZBR – Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC – Altium Designer; GED – GEDCOM Genealogy Data File; XCF – eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM – Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX – HotDocs Answer Format files; SPP – Substance Painter project; PRJPCB – Altium Designer Project file; XHW – ChamSys MagicQ Icon Snapshots files; ARI – ARRIRAW images; ARX – ARRIRAW images; TAR – Tape Archive files.
• Symlink support to recover data from iOS backups saved to external storage locations (including network and web-based ones)
• iOS Backups can now be shown in Finder via right clic
Improvements
• Fine-tuned Disk Drill interface responsiveness
• Better recovery from SSD on M1, M2, and T2-based Macs
• More details on lost partitions displayed while scanning
• More app-specific files extracted during iOS recovery and placed into Accessible Files category in results
• Disk Drill’s iOS data recovery module extracts more files with longer names (above 72 characters)
• Improved scanning feedback for locked iOS 16+ devices
• Visually improved hints for even easier navigation through the app
• Greatly improved detection of RAID5 with EXT file system
• Smoother start of iOS recovery thanks to preliminary disk space and device availability verification
• Enhanced preview with even more information about found folders
• More intuitive support for native macOS hotkey combos
• Better recovery chances prediction for APFS drives
• A more on-point icons design in dark mode
• A more responsive iOS scan cancellation
• Greatly improved scanning of FAT32 systems
Fixes
• Random exception error messages when a disk was disconnected while navigating through the list of sources available for recovery
• Multiple interface touchups throughout the app modules
• An issue with adding identical folders to Clean Up, Data Shredder, and Find Duplicates modules
• Now Clean Up and Data Shredder modules give out a warning when attempting to add an item that’s already on the list
• Erroneous number of recovered files indicated upon recovery completion, if the destination drive was disconnected at some point of the recovery process
• The S.M.A.R.T. module refreshing its data continuously
Feb 28, 2023
• File recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
• Faster scanning times thanks to new caching algorithms
• Even more file signatures are now discovered by Deep Scan: TAR - Tape Archive files; ZPR, ZBR - Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC - Altium Designer; GED - GEDCOM Genealogy Data files; XCF - eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM - Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX - HotDocs answer files; SPP - Substance Painter Project; PRJPCB - Altium Designer project files; XHW - ChamSys MagicQ icon snapshot files; ARI, ARX - ARRIRAW images.
• All previously connected Disk Images are reconnected upon Disk Drill restart
Improvements
• Scan sessions are properly timestamped corresponding to users' computer regional settings
• Disk Drill now shows even more details about lost partitions while scanning
• Better detection of RAID arrays with missing drives
• RAID arrays with an unidentified file system are labeled as RAW
• Improved installation path verification
• Refined scan results filters
• Refined user interface and preview of recoverable files
• A better logical presentation of available recovery destination drives
• Improvements in Disk Drill's Dark Mode
• Even more M1V files are now found during Deep Scan
• Show in Explorer option navigates to partially created Disk Backup file (DMG) even when backup process was not completed
• Deep Scan is even faster now thanks to enhancements in file and folder reconstruction algorithm
• Lots of improvements in FAT32 data recovery
• A more precise scan progress info, especially when dealing with larger files
Fixes
• Fixed error while scanning for folders and files with lengthier paths (e.g. multiple subfolders)
• Rare offline activation issues fixed
• Certain values were not shown properly or not shown at all after loading a recent session
• The app performance when devices are disconnected and reconnected during an ongoing scan
• Minor interface glitches while adding items for recovery
• The name of the scanned drive was not displayed after loading an interrupted scan session
• The rare hidden system files filtering issues
• Random app crash issues during the license activation
• Untimely success message when an interrupted scan session was loaded
• Recent session disk name display issues
• Incorrect display of free space on RAID arrays available for saving the recovery results
- Data Protection
- Boot Drive
- macOS Installer
- Data Backup
- Data Clean Up
- Data Shredder
- Free Space Eraser
- Duplicate Finder

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

US$89
- 1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
- Quick & Deep Scan
- Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
- Lost Partition Search & more
- All media types and file systems
US$89
- UNLIMITED PERSONAL RECOVERY, 1 USER
- Quick and Deep Scan
- Lost partition search
- All file systems (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT3/4 etc.)
US$499
- 10 USERS, ∞ MACS
- Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.
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 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 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista 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.
Jan 31, 2023
• Faster scans for lost data thanks to new caching algorithms
• Recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
• Lots of new file signatures are now found by Deep Scan, including ZPR, ZBR – Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC – Altium Designer; GED – GEDCOM Genealogy Data File; XCF – eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM – Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX – HotDocs Answer Format files; SPP – Substance Painter project; PRJPCB – Altium Designer Project file; XHW – ChamSys MagicQ Icon Snapshots files; ARI – ARRIRAW images; ARX – ARRIRAW images; TAR – Tape Archive files.
• Symlink support to recover data from iOS backups saved to external storage locations (including network and web-based ones)
• iOS Backups can now be shown in Finder via right clic
Improvements
• Fine-tuned Disk Drill interface responsiveness
• Better recovery from SSD on M1, M2, and T2-based Macs
• More details on lost partitions displayed while scanning
• More app-specific files extracted during iOS recovery and placed into Accessible Files category in results
• Disk Drill’s iOS data recovery module extracts more files with longer names (above 72 characters)
• Improved scanning feedback for locked iOS 16+ devices
• Visually improved hints for even easier navigation through the app
• Greatly improved detection of RAID5 with EXT file system
• Smoother start of iOS recovery thanks to preliminary disk space and device availability verification
• Enhanced preview with even more information about found folders
• More intuitive support for native macOS hotkey combos
• Better recovery chances prediction for APFS drives
• A more on-point icons design in dark mode
• A more responsive iOS scan cancellation
• Greatly improved scanning of FAT32 systems
Fixes
• Random exception error messages when a disk was disconnected while navigating through the list of sources available for recovery
• Multiple interface touchups throughout the app modules
• An issue with adding identical folders to Clean Up, Data Shredder, and Find Duplicates modules
• Now Clean Up and Data Shredder modules give out a warning when attempting to add an item that’s already on the list
• Erroneous number of recovered files indicated upon recovery completion, if the destination drive was disconnected at some point of the recovery process
• The S.M.A.R.T. module refreshing its data continuously
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 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
- Data Protection
- Boot Drive
- macOS Installer
- Data Backup
- Data Clean Up
- Data Shredder
- Free Space Eraser
- Duplicate Finder

US$89
- 1 USER, UP TO 3 MACS
- Quick & Deep Scan
- Rebuild HFS+ Catalog
- Lost Partition Search & more
- All media types and file systems
US$499
- 10 USERS, ∞ MACS
- Full-featured commercial data recovery package with top-level support for the whole company.
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.
Feb 28, 2023
• File recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
• Faster scanning times thanks to new caching algorithms
• Even more file signatures are now discovered by Deep Scan: TAR - Tape Archive files; ZPR, ZBR - Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC - Altium Designer; GED - GEDCOM Genealogy Data files; XCF - eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM - Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX - HotDocs answer files; SPP - Substance Painter Project; PRJPCB - Altium Designer project files; XHW - ChamSys MagicQ icon snapshot files; ARI, ARX - ARRIRAW images.
• All previously connected Disk Images are reconnected upon Disk Drill restart
Improvements
• Scan sessions are properly timestamped corresponding to users' computer regional settings
• Disk Drill now shows even more details about lost partitions while scanning
• Better detection of RAID arrays with missing drives
• RAID arrays with an unidentified file system are labeled as RAW
• Improved installation path verification
• Refined scan results filters
• Refined user interface and preview of recoverable files
• A better logical presentation of available recovery destination drives
• Improvements in Disk Drill's Dark Mode
• Even more M1V files are now found during Deep Scan
• Show in Explorer option navigates to partially created Disk Backup file (DMG) even when backup process was not completed
• Deep Scan is even faster now thanks to enhancements in file and folder reconstruction algorithm
• Lots of improvements in FAT32 data recovery
• A more precise scan progress info, especially when dealing with larger files
Fixes
• Fixed error while scanning for folders and files with lengthier paths (e.g. multiple subfolders)
• Rare offline activation issues fixed
• Certain values were not shown properly or not shown at all after loading a recent session
• The app performance when devices are disconnected and reconnected during an ongoing scan
• Minor interface glitches while adding items for recovery
• The name of the scanned drive was not displayed after loading an interrupted scan session
• The rare hidden system files filtering issues
• Random app crash issues during the license activation
• Untimely success message when an interrupted scan session was loaded
• Recent session disk name display issues
• Incorrect display of free space on RAID arrays available for saving the recovery results
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 4.5 • Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Direct Download
Disk Drill 2.0 • Windows XP & Vista Direct Download
- FREE RECOVERY, UP TO 500 MB
- All recovery methods with a cap
- Recovery Vault data protection
- Undelete protected data
- Backup failing disks

US$89
- UNLIMITED PERSONAL RECOVERY, 1 USER
- Quick and Deep Scan
- Lost partition search
- All file systems (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT3/4 etc.)
US$499
- UNLIMITED COMMERCIAL RECOVERY
- 10 users
- All PRO features
- Priority support
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techrepublic.com
The developments didn't slow Disk Drill, which continued to recover lost files and lost partitions dating back years. The applications' deep scans required less than nine minutes to complete scanning a 16 GB drive...

macworld.com
Disk Drill 2 is your first and last line of defense for dealing with misbehaving volumes on the Mac, and the Pro version easily pays for itself the first time trouble comes along. Aside from a UI that feels out of step with OS X El Capitan, my only caveat would be to hold off for the forthcoming version 3...

download.cnet.com
Disk Drill for Mac is a powerful tool that lets you scan your computer or other connected device for lost files and, with the paid version, recover them. While not all files are recoverable, Disk Drill uses a variety of techniques to find or reconstruct files that were lost or accidentally deleted, and is successful in many cases...

softonic.com
It's very easy to use and is an excellent final option if you feel like you've lost your data for good. Disk Drill for Mac is a valuable tool to recover lost files...
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