Disk Drill: Best Data Recovery Software For Windows and Mac

Data loss is annoying, and sometimes it becomes essential to recover lost data. Whatever is the reason for data loss, be it permanent/ temporary deletion, loss of partition/ corruption; there are hundreds of software apps that claims accurate results. But, the declarations made by data recovery tools are not always true. However, Disk Drill is one such competent data recovery software for Windows and Mac that really works exactly as it is advertised and successfully restores all the lost or deleted data.

Disk Drill for Windows

Disk Drill data recovery software for Windows efficiently works with its powerful scanning algorithm and recovers images, videos, music and documents lost due to unknown reasons or accidental deletion. It can also recover data that gets deleted due to loss of partition, failed boot-up attempts, recycle bin clean-up, corruption in storage device and drive reformat. Let’s find out the features and the capabilities of respective application.

Disk Drill becomes more scalable with the release of its Windows compatible freeware edition. Good thing is that the free version comes with unlimited access and is integrated with following features:

• Backup partition from drive and saves it into DMG image on another drive.
• Recover data from all sorts of storage devices including USB flash drive, memory cards and external storage media.
• Simple interface makes the functionality straightforward for first timers and non-technical users.

How it Works?

1. As soon as the software is installed and launched on Windows machine, all the partitions and documents incorporated in the machine gets automatically displayed on the panel.
2. Next, click on the partition that is required to be recovered by clicking on the ‘Recover’ button.
3. Software allows selecting different recovery options
   • Run all recovery methods
   • Quick scan
   • Deep scan
4. Once ‘Recover’ button is clicked, all the documents incorporated in that particular partition will get displayed.
5. Select the category among All Files, Pictures, Video, Documents, Archives, Audio, etc and provide the destination folder where the recover data needs to be saved

Note:Newly recovered data might overwrite the contents of the existing file, therefore it is recommended to save recovered data at a new location on another drive. However, the software provides the option to store data on the same drive as well.

Disk Drill for Mac OS

Disk Drill data recovery software for Mac OS is available in trial as well as PRO editions. The software can be used to get access to the functional and workability parameters with restricted usage. However, Disk Drill PRO edition can be purchased for unlimited usage of extensive features. The trial version can be downloaded from the official site and later on installed on the machine.

Likewise Windows edition, once the application is launched all the files that can be recovered gets enlisted within the software panel. User can then recover desired partition and can pause or cancel the recovery procedure, if required.

Some of the main features of Disk Drill For Mac

• Recover data from Mac machine’s internal storage media and external storage drives such as flash drive
• Enables to scan and recover a number of file systems including FAT, FAT32, exFAT, HFS, HFS+, EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, etc.
• Recover music files, videos, images, graphic files as well as documents and backup data to DMG image
• Recover erased images from camera and allows recovering deleted video clips from the camcorder
• Rescue data and remount volume to read-only format to protect data overwrite attempts by other apps while recovery
• ‘Data mapping mode’ tracks disk usage and the apps and files that occupy excessive space can be deleted right from the Disk Drill panel. System critical files are taken care of during the process
• Deep Scan recovers data from corrupted as well as lost file systems
• Advance monitoring mechanisms detects hard drive troubles beforehand and warns for the same
• ‘Recovery Vault’ enables to keep track of deleted files and allows quick recovery of the files (whenever required)

Final Words

Disk Drill is potential data recovery software and the good thing is that it is available for both Mac and Windows Operating Systems. One additional benefit for Windows version is that it is available for free with unlimited access. Although, Disk Drill for Mac also comes with a trial but complete accessibility requires purchasing the PRO edition.

As per my experience both versions (Mac and Windows) worked proficiently and delivered accurate results. I have tested few others data recovery software as well but the recovery rate of Disk Drill was much higher than other similar software.

Rating for Disk Drill – 9/10