Disk Drill
Disk Drill easily recovers deleted files and protects your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
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What is Disk Drill?
Disk Drill is a data recovery software that easily protects your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recovers lost data from disks. Disk Drill supports most of storage drives, file types and file systems. Disk Drill recovers deleted files from iPhone and Android devices! This data recovery software can also find duplicate files, clean your disk and visualize disk space usage; offers bootable data recovery drive, byte-to-byte backups, disk health monitoring, and more.
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 files system (HFS/HFS+) & 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.
The Disk Drill FREE TRIAL download enables the user to recover up to 500 MB of data and test the features of the program before committing to a licensed version of the product.
Disk Drill PRO 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 scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
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 files system (HFS/HFS+) & 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.
The Disk Drill FREE TRIAL download enables the user to recover up to 500 MB of data and test the features of the program before committing to a licensed version of the product.
Disk Drill PRO 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 scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Disk Drill, and it has gotten 190 likes
- Developed by Cleverfiles
- Proprietary and Freemium product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license)
- Average rating of 3.4
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- Aunbox added Disk Drill as alternative(s) to RecoverXData2 months ago
- IUWEshare added Disk Drill as alternative(s) to Windows Data Recovery6 months ago
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It helped me to recover my on-going thesis folder that was lost on a move from my laptop to a backup-disk -_-". the coincidence...
Fortunately, this application recovered the files in the folder although not all the file names and the folders' hierarchy were recovered. But it let me go to sleep well that night. Thank you!
Highlights From a review i previously wrote on my website:
The program itself is quite clean looking, and easy to figure out .
Disk Drill found over 164,000 total deleted files on the deep scan. …
I obviously don’t have time to go through them all and verify them
So I randomly picked 30 pictures, 30 videos etc and made sure they were not corrupted
To my surprise I actually found some found some large video files in there that I thought I had lost forever, including some wedding footage from years ago and the only footage of a friend who passed away 3 years ago other programs had failed to find them before which is a good sign for the program.
Don't waste your time. It is not "free with limited functionality". It's free to install so you can be forced to pay to do anything. It also didn't find anything of use for me, so a waste of time. Immediate uninstall.
The first Mac data recovery software with macOS Big Sur support. Disk Drill 4 is the biggest update in the program’s history, the software has received significant improvements and refinements, including the new UI and Dark Mode. It’s more intuitive and easier to navigate and displays all of the functionality of the application in its main window.
Finds a lot of stuff, however, it doesn't appear to show them as their original file names, nor does it show the original file structure. Makes recovery way too painful. An Explorer-like tree view with all original names is a must.
Has a 500MB limit for the free version, thus not the best for larger video files. :(
This entry is badly labelled. Disk Drill is not free. A free version does exist, but the feature you probably want it for, recovering your files, has a steep $89 price tag. To reiterate, the free trial of Disk Drill will show you your deleted files, but it WILL NOT recover them. I had to tell people this because it really annoyed me when I found out.
It is labelled "free with limited functionality" which means that you need to buy the software to enjoy the full version
Reply written over 9 years ago
It is indeed free for windows so I would suggest adding another Disk Drill entry to alternativeto called "Disk Drill (Windows)" and label it as freeware and rename the mac version to "Disk Drill (Mac)"
Reply written about 6 years ago
We prefer not to add different versions for a product separately, as stated in our FAQ.
I have just written about the absolutely free version for Windows in the description and in the platform note.
Reply written about 6 years ago
I came here to say this too. For "free", you get a program that tells you "I can see these files, but I will not restore even one of them unless you pay". That's not any sort of reasonable functionality for free. Frankly, their website is also deceptive in this regard, referring to a lot of "Disk Drill" features that only seem to actually exist in "Disk Drill Pro" (the paid offering).
Reply written 10 months ago