Disk Drill for Mac
Data recovery and protection app.
Data recovery and protection app.
Disk Drill is available in a Free/Basic version and a Pro version.
Disk Drill is a Mac data recovery software designed natively for Mac OS: easily protect your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recover lost data from Mac disks. Most storage devices, file types, and file systems are supported. You can recover deleted files from iPhone and Android devices! Disk Drill offers helpful and free tools for disk management like duplicate file finder, byte-to-byte backups, disk cleanup, and space visualization, bootable data recovery drive, disk health monitoring, etc.
When something is deleted Recovery Vault makes it possible to recover not only the file itself but also its properties, such as original file name, location, etc. So you will always be able to recover data from the Mac files system (HFS/HFS+) and FAT32 partitions. Disk Drill also includes powerful S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring right out of the box; you can monitor your disks' hardware status and get automatic notifications of potential failures or other issues. If a disk or partition is failing, you can easily backup it into a disk image (DMG) which can later be mounted for recovery.
Disk Drill PRO also features a number of advanced scanning modes for data recovery of FAT, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, other file systems, and formatted (initialized) drives. Using Quick Scan you can locate deleted items on FAT and NTFS disks, this scanning method is fast and accurate but is unlikely to find data deleted long ago. With Deep Scan you can try to recover data from any disk or memory card regardless of their file system. This recovery method is long and thorough, it scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
Beware of the recovery capabilities of this software! I lost 100€ on this software that didn’t live up to its promise. - Don’t buy DiskDrill Pro: Recovery corrupted all the MP4 files from the GoPro Hero 10. - EaseUS is the software that saved (all) my precious MP4 files WITHOUT corrupting them.
I went on vacation, took my new GoPro to document the trip, returned home, and saw that the SD-card crashed. Two weeks of memories were lost. :( Searching the internet, I came across Disk Drill Pro. There was hope, or at least I thought... I installed the (free) software, did a scan, and it showed a hopeful 84GB of recovery on my 64GB card. After the scan, I saw it could recover JPEG’s as well as MP4 files. The JPEG showed a preview of the photo, and the MP4 files showed up as MP4 icons in the preview while being accompanied with tiny JPEG previews. (Which led me to believe they could read the content of the file. There was no mention of them being corrupted anywhere on the application...) Full of hope, I bought the software (100€) and recovered everything to a separate SSD. Only to realize that ALL the MP4 files were corrupted and couldn’t play. (Even when using video recovery software: they showed a few frames and then froze or glitched…) PLEASE reconsider buying Disk Drill Pro as you will be disappointed and left out in the dark with less cash… In our email correspondence, they literally stated that: Any recovery at all is considered a blinding success, as file recovery was often thought impossible. ==> So that’s their standard when it comes down to recovering files. I can’t emphasize this enough: ALL THE DATA WAS RECOVERED USING OTHER RECOVERY SOFTWARE. NONE OF THE FILES WERE CORRUPTED, DISK DRILL PRO WASN’T ABLE TO DO IT.
No refunds, even when going through the whole process of explaining everything to customer service (with logs, proof that other software did work, etc.). They state that “Any recovery at all is considered a blinding success, as file recovery was often thought impossible.” ==> So that’s their standard when it comes down to recovering files.
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