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Disk Drill Changelog

What's new in Disk Drill 5.3.817.0

Jul 4, 2023
  • We’ve added a global scan ETA indicator. Previously, only Deep Scan had an estimated time shown, now you can see how much time the whole process from the very beginning is estimated to take
  • Hide duplicate files in scan results with a new filter
  • Now all recovered files can be saved in a single folder disregarding how they were structured before data loss
  • New file signatures supported by Deep Scan – GZ, TGZ, ALS, FC (FlipaClip: 2D Animation creation app)
  • Scan sessions created in Disk Drill 4 are not supported by Disk Drill 5 anymore

New in Disk Drill 5.12.808.0 (Apr 24, 2023)

  • File recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
  • Faster scanning times thanks to new caching algorithms
  • Even more file signatures are now discovered by Deep Scan: TAR – Tape Archive files; ZPR, ZBR – Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC – Altium Designer; GED – GEDCOM Genealogy Data files; XCF – eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM – Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX – HotDocs answer files; SPP – Substance Painter Project; PRJPCB – Altium Designer project files; XHW – ChamSys MagicQ icon snapshot files; ARI, ARX – ARRIRAW images.
  • All previously connected Disk Images are reconnected upon Disk Drill restart

New in Disk Drill 4.4.606.0 (Nov 4, 2021)

  • New:
  • Disk Drill is now officially compatible with Windows 11
  • New comprehensive notification popup upon the scan completion
  • The session saving progress is now shown in a modal window for user’s convenience
  • During a backup copy creation, Disk Drill scans for and informs about bad blocks on the disk and whether their number is critical for the disk’s further functioning
  • Confirmation alerts were added for cancelations of scan, recovery and backup processes
  • The preview window has been tremendously updated: scale and rotate the supported file previews; pin the window on top; a previewed file can be selected for recovery even faster now with a conveniently placed checkbox. The preview window now also remembers its position and size
  • Increased scanning speed by optimizing the “empty” blocks scan
  • If bad blocks are found on a disk during the scan process, Disk Drill shows a message with related information and recommendations
  • The backup process offers more flexibility now by allowing you to indicate the start and end positions for backup, or specify its desired size
  • Improvements:
  • Image size detection greatly improved for JPG files
  • A much better detection of Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF) files
  • Better detection of X3F files for Sigma sd Quattro cameras
  • Better support for the BRAW (Blackmagic RAW) format with its new codecs
  • Better handling of interrupted Deep Scans
  • A greatly improved scan process for NTFS systems with their partitions formatted in Acronis software
  • A much better recovery for CR3 (Canon RAW format) files, specifically for the Canon EOS R6 (craw with HDR preview), Canon EOS R5 (craw HDR, FW 1.2.0), Canon EOS 1DX Mark III (craw w/ HDR FW 1.0), and Canon EOS R5 (craw/craw HDR FW 1.0) cameras
  • Recovery chances of the found files are dynamically refreshed as they are calculated (even when scrolling the list of scan results)
  • Multiple minor tweaks in the interface to make it even more comprehensive and native to Windows OS
  • A new informer when attempting to store backups of partitions larger than 4 GB on FAT32 systems
  • The recovery log always contains all the files selected for recovery, even if the recovery process itself was paused midway
  • The overall recovery algorithms stability during the recovery of badly corrupted FAT systems has been greatly improved
  • When attempting to open a session created in a newer version of Disk Drill, the app will give a comprehensive warning of an unsupported session format
  • Disk Drill will now properly inform users when the storage device with the DMG file being scanned gets disconnected
  • Greatly enhanced recovery chances calculation on Windows x86
  • Updated support for bitmap image files – those that contain multiple images, icons and cursor files for OS/2
  • Log files now contain extended information about scan durations for every drive scanned
  • Fixes:
  • During installation, Disk Drill checks whether Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is running on a computer, which is important for a proper software launch
  • Minor text edits in various localizations to make sure all messages fit in their windows
  • Software crash when quitting a scan and clicking “Yes” to confirm
  • The already recovered empty files (0 bytes) were still selected for recovery upon going back to scan results
  • Recovered empty files (0 bytes) didn’t have the “Success!” status assigned to them
  • Erroneous assignment of the “Success!” recovery status in certain scenarios to the files that haven’t been recovered yet
  • Disabled “Scan entire disk” and “Skip” options after a disk partition was scanned and disk was then disconnected and connected again
  • The “Review Found Items” option was not displayed when using the “Undelete protected data” method on system disks with data protection enabled

New in Disk Drill 4.3.586.0 (Oct 6, 2021)

  • New:
  • A new centralized Settings menu has been assembled for your utter convenience
  • The recovered files are now comprehensively listed with their recovery statuses
  • Deep Scan now processes only empty space on disk to save time
  • Disk Drill can now estimate the recovery chances for each recoverable file, when you use All recovery methods, Quick or Deep scan
  • Disk Drill can find existing as well as deleted files in Trash and Recycle Bin on FAT32, exFAT and NTFS volumes
  • “Generating thumbnails…” status is now displayed after scanning with the info on how many files were already processed
  • Disk Drill improves restoration of the original file names during Quick and Deep scan
  • Improvements:
  • S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is greatly improved in general as well as its support for many specific devices including Seagate SSD, Kingston SA400, ADATA 650U, SanDisk SSD, KIOXIA SATA SSD, Goldenfir SATA SSD, Seagate BarraCuda SSD, Apacer AS350, YMTC SATA SSD, KLEVV NEO N610 SSD
  • S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is now much better at reading the SSD life and health parameters as well as Helium Level for hard disk drives
  • Disk Drill properly detects when FAT32 volume is disconnected and stops the ongoing scan
  • Greatly improved detection of lost NTFS volumes and files based on recoverable MFT entries
  • FAT32 volumes are scanned much faster and more efficiently thanks to optimized operations for file name resolving
  • Now Disk Drill works even better with compressed NTFS volumes
  • Greatly improved Deep Scan of ExFAT volumes with a vast amount of deleted and existing data
  • Improved usability during scan of partitions encrypted with BitLocker
  • Deep Scan works even better with damaged NTFS drives – improved meta-data processing
  • Deep Scan can now find and display deleted files on NTFS partitions encrypted with BitLocker
  • Multiple improvements when filtering recoverable items
  • Optimized recovery from NTFS partitions when parsing files with the same file locators and incorrect NTFS conditions when file data wasn’t properly stored on a disk
  • Fixed file selection in the list of recoverable items when folders contained entries with the same filename
  • Optimized and revised Deep Scan for such file formats as TIFF, PSD, TTF, JPG, MOV, PDF, DOC
  • Files with long names are displayed properly in Hex view
  • Improved Byte-to-Byte Backup module usability
  • Minor tweaks in Disk Drill’s interface for even better user experience: more file details when previewing videos, better informer on disconnected devices, etc.
  • Improved recovery of files with corrupted sector records when deep-scanning NTFS partitions
  • Detection of Insta360 One X2 file signatures within Deep Scan
  • Disks with hardware issues are now marked red in the Disk List
  • Deep Scan now recovers files encoded with H.265, XAVC codec
  • Disk Drill now properly reads S.M.A.R.T. parameters for drives inaccessible via PhysicalDriveID
  • NTFS Quick Scan improvements for different types of volumes and recovery scenarios
  • Improved file selection – it is now disabled when the current disk is disconnected or filtering returns an empty result
  • Improved detection of improper exFAT volumes
  • Improved detection of drives disconnected during file recovery phase
  • Improved selection of recoverable items in saved scanning sessions
  • Fixes:
  • Multiple random crashes fixed
  • Fixed minor interface glitches during file selection, search and while using the right-click menu
  • Fixed the Back button functionality after the list of found items was customized
  • Fixed filter settings when switching to lost partition in scan results

New in Disk Drill 4.1.551.0 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • Disk Drill 4.1 adds new file formats to its Deep Scan recognition algos, improvements in NTFS and FAT32 recovery, various tweaks in managing ongoing scans, and so much more. Disk Drill becomes smarter with every update delivering improved UI and backbone powerhouse.
  • New:
  • Extended selection controls in the recovery tree
  • New option to “Select only files that were not recovered yet” in the recovery tree
  • Auto-resuming scans of frequently disconnecting devices
  • Disk Drill’s Deep Scan learns new file formats for Ichitaro Word Processor – .JTD, .JTDC, .JTT, and .JTTC, as well as .PUB (MS Publisher documents)

New in Disk Drill 4.0.499.0 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Improved and updated ExFAT data recovery
  • Internal updates in FAT32 and NTFS smart recovery algorithms
  • Disk Drill adds initial S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring
  • Disk Drill automatically attempts to remount storage devices into read-only mode to prevent further data loss before scanning;
  • Deep Scan learns DMF (Geosystem Digitals Map File) and improves on MPO (Multi Picture Object File) and a number of font (TTF, EOT, WOFF, WOFF2, RPP) file formats recovery

New in Disk Drill 4.0.487.0 (Aug 22, 2019)

  • New UI
  • Faster scans
  • Enhanced scan process management
  • Data recovery from Bitlocker-protected drives
  • Better preview
  • Extended RAW support
  • Smarter Recovery Vault feature
  • All recoverable data can be mounted as a virtual drive

New in Disk Drill 2.0.0 Build 339 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Improving FAT32 and ExFAT Recovery
  • Major improvements in FAT32 partition recovery
  • Critical fixes when recovering from ExFAT partitions

New in Disk Drill 2.0.0 Build 313 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • Improved NTFS drives enumeration
  • Multiple internal fixes and improvements

New in Disk Drill 2.0.0.274 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Internal Deep Scan improvements
  • Better listing of partitions, when their names cannot be retrieved
  • Several activation enhancements
  • Fixed final recovery steps if the original path contained reserved or invalid characters

New in Disk Drill 2.0.0.253 (Aug 31, 2016)

  • Completely free data recovery up to 2GB
  • ExFAT, EXT4 support
  • New file signature for Deep Scan
  • Faster byte-to-byte disk backups
  • Improved standard preview of found files
  • UI improvements
  • Fixes and improvements in Windows 10.x

New in Disk Drill 1.0.0.187 (Mar 25, 2015)

  • improved: backup formats support
  • improved: names handling for disks and disk images
  • fixed: more occasional crashes