Free data recovery software and disk tools originally popular on Mac.
Disk Drill is a set of tools for recovering data from, managing and analyzing mass storage devices.
The application has been quite popular among Mac OS users for quite a while and the developer has ported the application to Windows.
With Disk Drill, you are given a comprehensive set of tools for finding, managing, rebuilding and recovering damaged data. Its usefulness is in its multiple algorithms it uses to recover data.
Disk Drill features a beautiful user interface which provides users with the quick ability to get down into the internals of virtually any connected device. It supports the Windows filesystems along with Mac's HFS along with Linux EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 filesystems.
Recovering data with this recovery tool is rather easy and allows you to search through recoverable data. Items are grouped depending on their general category (eg. Videos, Pictures, Documents, etc.) The app allows you to save the data to an external device.
Another useful feature of Disk Drill is its protection feature which helps guard against data loss and permanent deletion.
Disk Drill is a useful and easy-to-use data recovery program which can be very useful for more novice users or simply for people who like a combination of beauty and functionality with a simple interface.
Features of Disk Drill
- Archive recovery: Recover data from damaged archives such as ZIP, RAR and TAR.
- Backup & Restore: Create and restore disk images, back up data to external drives.
- Data recovery: Quickly and easily recover lost files from any storage device.
- Deep Scan: Powerful data recovery algorithms to find every lost file.
- Disk health monitoring: Keep an eye on your hard drive health with S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
- Duplicate file finder: Automatically locate and delete duplicate files.
- File undeleter: Easily undelete files from your hard drive or external storage.
- Flexible scanning: Perform fast and deep scans, or customize scans with the help of filters.
- Lost partition recovery: Easily recover data from accidentally or intentionally deleted partitions.
- Preview before recovery: Preview files before recovering them.
- Recovery Vault: Monitors and protects your data in the background.
- Secure data eraser: Permanently erase sensitive data.
- Versatile recovery: Recover data from lost or deleted partitions, formatted disks and other storage devices.
Compatibility and License
Disk Drill is a restricted version of commercial software, often called freemium which requires you to pay a license fee to unlock additional features which are not accessible with the free version. Download and installation of this software is free, however other similar programs are available from file recovery software which may have what you need. 5.4.844.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Disk Drill run on?
Disk Drill can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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