Disk Drill for MAC

Disk Drill can be purchased in two versions: a free/basic version and a pro version for $99.

DiskDrill is a Mac-specific data recovery software that protects your files from accidental deletion. It can also recover deleted data from Mac disks. Supported are most file types, storage devices, and file systems. You can recover files deleted from iPhones and Android devices. Disk Drill provides useful and free tools for disk administration such as duplicate file finder and byte-to byte backups, disk cleanup, space visualization, bootable drive, disk health monitoring, and disk cleanup.

Recovery Vault allows you to retrieve deleted files as well as their properties like original file name, location, and so on. You will always be able recover data from Mac files (HFS/HFS+ and FAT32 partitions). Disk Drill also features powerful S.M.A.R.T. Disk Drill comes with disk monitoring. You can monitor the status of your disks and receive notifications about potential failures. You can backup a disk or partition that is experiencing problems into a disk image (DMG), which can be later mounted for recovery.

Disk Drill PRO offers advanced scanning options for data recovery from FAT, NTFS and HFS/HFS+ file systems, as well as formatted (initialized), drives. Quick Scan can locate deleted items on FAT or NTFS disks. This scanning method is fast but unlikely to find long-lost data. Deep Scan can be used to retrieve data from any memory card or disk, regardless of the file system. This recovery method is thorough and takes a long time. It scans your disk in binary mode and can find deleted files even after formatting.

Version 4.4.356:

New:

• More flexibility in byte-to-byte backups: select specific disk sectors or indicate the size in MB
• S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is now easily accessible through the Extras menu
• New simplified two-step Disk Drill installation
• MSI files (Windows installer packages) are now supported in Deep Scan

Improvements:

• Better detection of PSD files in Deep Scan
• Clean Up detects and displays items stored in other user accounts on a computer
• More details are now displayed upon recovery completion in case there were errors during the recovery process
• More hints have been added to the icons and menus throughout the app's interface
• A click on the Home button during scan in Clean Up module now evokes a confirmation dialog, where you can decide whether to cancel the scan or not
• Thumbnail generation progress is back. You can now see that the previews are being generated in a convenient status label
• A much faster Quick Scan for ExFAT systems that contain a large number of deleted files
• Better detection of lost NTFS partitions and their files based on the found MFT entries
• Scan is automatically stopped when a FAT32 disk is disconnected from the computer
• The FAT32 scan is ten times faster now for files with longer names
• Optimized and revised Deep Scan for such file formats as JPG, PDF, and DOC
• Detection of Insta360 One X2 file signatures within Deep Scan
• Better support for compressed NTFS volumes
• Deep Scan now recovers video files (MP4) encoded with H.265 XAVC codec
• Improved detection of false exFAT volumes
• Improved behavior when scan and recovery run simultaneously

Fixes:

• Minor interface enhancements throughout
• Disk Drill stability when scanning Time Machine backups
• Resolved compatibility issues with previously unsupported versions of osxfuse
• A crash while recording a backup image to an unstable disk
• A crash that occured if a recovery process was canceled during an ongoing scan
• The "Show in Finder" button for the local Time Machine snapshots
• A crash on macOS 10.11 and 10.12 that occured when scan was terminated in the Find Duplicates module
• A crash that occured at the beginning of scan when the scanned disk was suddenly disconnected
• Disk Drill freezing when scanning NTFS partitions with outdated Recovery Vault or Guaranteed Recovery database
• A crash on macOS 10.11 if the scan results were displayed as Files and Icons
• Random crashes in Hex view when loading saved sessions or repeating a scan