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Just Launched: Disk Drill 1.7.188
Disk Drill 1.7.188 adds new file types to Deep Scan, recovers from Linux/Unix disks…
Read Article ›Disk Drill updates for March 2012
Disk Drill 1.7.185 shipping now. It’s a new minor build with a bunch of updates and some bugfixes
Read Article ›Disk Drill 1.7: Thunderbolt support, better deep scanning, more improvements
Disk Drill 1.7 is here! Thunderbolt hard drives recovery, new file signatures, and more…
Read Article ›Disk Drill 1.6
Disk Drill 1.6 is here! New file signatures added, several critical fixes. Update now…
Read Article ›Disk Drill 1.4 refreshed
Disk Drill 1.4 updated! New file types supported by Deep Scan. Multiple improvements…
Read Article ›Disk Drill 1.4 introduces Guaranteed Recovery
Disk Drill 1.4 is here. Get it now. We introduced Guaranteed Recovery and polished some Lion-related issues…
Read Article ›Disk Drill 1.3.123 & new video tutorial!
Disk Drill 1.3.123 released today. Get the new version asap, and check the new video tutorial…
Read Article ›Disk Drill tops at CNet’s Download.com catalog
Disk Drill is among top 20 Mac apps, according to CNet’s Download.com catalog; check the full review…
Read Article ›HFS recovery in Disk Drill 1.3.118
Disk Drill 1.3.118 adds low-level search for HFS journal; attempts to recover original file names with Deep Scan…
Read Article ›New in Disk Drill: Deep Scan improvements & Mac OS 10.7
We added a number of new file formats to Deep Scan algorithms in Disk Drill 1.3. Check out the new release
Read Article ›FAQ: recovered items cannot be opened
It’s not a secret that data recovery is all about chances and good luck flavored by your common sense (don’t actively use the disk after deletion, etc). Additionally, the algorithms and technologies, behind the data recovery software that you use, play a crucial role. Nonetheless, there are cases when even profound technologies behind Disk Drill [...]
Read Article ›Recovered with Disk Drill
This photo… yes, this one, this nice one, taken in Paris, was occasionally deleted and then recovered with Disk Drill! And it’s really true. Here’s what Olivier, the copyright owner of the image said: It (Disk Drill) seems to have mostly recovered everything. I am a photographer. This was essential to me, let me remember [...]
Read Article ›Disk Drill was recommended by MakeUseOf.com
A couple of days ago the guys from makeuseof.com reviewed our application, and confirmed that Disk Drill is a great addition to Time Machine and will in some cases be more effective and handy. CleverFiles‘s developers seem to be addressing well the needs of different users… Data recovery is not something we look forward to [...]
Read Article ›FAQ: can’t see mapped network drives in Disk Drill
Unfortunately, mapped network drives and drives on most network attached devices, which are connected to your Mac via SMB, AFP, FTP, NFS, RFS and other file protocols are not available for recovery or protection in Disk Drill. These network protocols do not provide direct disk access required by Disk Drill. Based on the latest reports [...]
Read Article ›Video How-To: Recover Files Emptied From Trash With a Quick Scan Option of Disk Drill
Dear Disk Drill Users! We are pleased to inform that from now on you can not only read our how-tos but also watch them. We plan to frequently release short videos on Disk Drill related questions that you might have. Let us start with the pilot video which reveals how you can use Quick Scan [...]
Read Article ›Disk Drill – Terms of Sale
As you already know (for instance from our built-in tutorial), data recovery is always about chances, probability and common sense. There’s never any guarantee that your data is recoverable 100%. And there’s always a possibility that your recovered items will be corrupted and won’t open correctly. And the fact is, while we do our best [...]
Read Article ›Frequently Asked Questions
- I deleted a file on FAT-enabled disk, but it didn't appear in Recovery Vault
- True. For some reason Mac OS will only actually delete a file from a FAT disk/partition after it resets internal file cache. Most probably the same will be true for NTFS-partitioned media (if it's mounted in read-write mode in Mac OS).
- Quick creation and deleting files in Mac OS
- There's an interesting observation for Mac OS's way to treat deletion, creation and fragmentation of files. If you create a file and delete it immediately, there's a very high probability that the next file will be created exactly in the same address of your hard drive (or other media). This means that recovery of the first file you deleted has really poor chances. This also means that if you create several files and then erase the first one - the chances to recover it are higher!
- How can I scan the whole disk for data, not only the empty space?
- As you know, deep scan only scans empty space of your hard drive for lost data (as existing data is available via Finder for instance). However, there are cases when disk is not readable in a usual way, and you can't see any data using your standard file managers. In this case it's quite important to know that when you select the whole disk in Disk Drill, and then use deep scanning (it's the only available option in this case, by the way) for data recovery, the disk is considered to have raw file system, and is analyzed completely.
