Click the read more link to see the rest of this review.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy.īoth the Basic and Pro versions are designed for use by a single user on all of his or her Macs. The Pro version comes with a higher support priority from Cleverfiles as well. If there's no file system on a drive, or even if a drive has been reformatted, Deep Scan and Recovery can find and bring back almost any file.

The Quick Scan and Recovery works with HFS/HFS+, NTFS, and FAT volumes to run a fast scan for accidentally deleted files. The Basic edition will scan and find those files for you, but you're not going to get them back unless you upgrade to the pro version. That's right, you can't recover files with the free Basic version. When you bump up to the US$89 Pro version, Disk Drill adds both Quick and Deep Scan and Recovery utilities.

Disk Drill's many versions also provide a way to quickly back up failing drives to disk image (.dmg) files. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) to keep an eye on your disks and other media and warn you of impending failures. All of the versions also provide S.M.A.R.T.

As a result, if you accidentally delete a file, empty the Trash Can when you didn't mean to, or even run into a hardware issue, chances are very good that Disk Drill will be able to find the file using Recovery Vault. The latest entry, Disk Drill from Cleverfiles, comes in four different flavors ranging from a free Basic edition that may be right for most Mac users up to Pro, Expert, and Enterprise versions.Īll of the Disk Drill editions use a feature called Recovery Vault that knows where every file is on your Mac media. Many of the disk utilities available for Mac OS X have been around for quite a few years, so it's surprising when a new entry shows up in this very important class of Mac app.

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