Disk Drill Protects Your Data and Recovers After Crash

Data recovery specialist Cleverfiles has revamped its disk drive utility software Disk Drill 1.1 with a lot of new features. It is designed to protect disk drive data and recover it after a crash or accidentally deleted files. According to a report by Yahoo News, Disk Drill 1.1 can handle crashed drives in Mac's own HFS+ format as well as Windows FAT and NTFS and lost data on solid state cards used in portable electronics.

The developer has improved the user interface, polished a number of data recovery aspects, changed scanning and recovery dialogs, and made a ton of smaller improvements and fixes. According to Clevefiles, a lot of ideas came from the beta users. As promised, many active participants in the product’s beta campaign are getting free lifetime licenses for Disk Drill PRO soon, said Cleverfiles.

New additions to Disk Drill 1.1 include Deep Scan algorithm, adding a number of file signatures to known ones (NEF, CR2, MOV, PAGES, PST, AI and many others among them); recovery and scanning sessions management, backing any media with a mountable DMG image for further scanning and recovery; searching and filtering in scanning results for simpler selection of recovery items; S.M.A.R.T. disk diagnostics for better pre-failure hard disks monitoring and reporting; and Portable Mode to install Disk Drill without Recovery Vault and anywhere you like, launching it from a Flash drive for instance, recovery from Classic iPod. Plus, scanning and recovery dialogs are now interactive and provide real-time preview of found files.

Likewise, improved recovery progress bar is now much more informative, while total recovery size is now calculated and displayed. Additionally, found folders have been enhanced to show total size during scanning. Plus, with implementation of advanced background scanning and recovery, the user can minimize Disk Drill any time. Other improvements include faster Deep Scan, much better BMP files recovery, better handling of incorrectly unmounted disks and USB drives, availability of latest disk update in Recovery Vault database, more notifications in Growl, and better detection of an outdated Recovery Vault and correct notification about this. Plus, it will greatly improve recovery of raw image formats of various cameras (CR2, RW2, NEF, etc).

Furthermore, a bunch of minor and major issues, crashes and exceptions have been fixed, according to Cleverfiles.