
On first start-up, Disk Drill for macOS displays helpful tips to guide the user through the recovery process. It’s possible to start recovering data without interrupting the scanning process.īuilt-in tips and tutorials. The scanning process is visualized in real time, with information about the number of scanned disk blocks, found files, and the estimated remaining time available at a glance. The program can work in portable mode without making any changes to scanned systems. It’s also possible to manually input sectors to be skipped during disk reading. Disk Drill for Mac can create a map of physical bad sectors during scanning to improve data recovery speed and efficiency. It's possible to create both full and partial byte-by-byte disk copies.īad sector map. There is a free module for creating macOS installation disks.īyte-by-byte disk copies. Disk Drill includes two additional modules to prevent data loss from occurring in the first place.Ĭreating macOS installation disks. The program can scan both local system snapshots as well as disks containing backups created by Time Machine.ĭata protection. This data recovery software can recover certain data on iOS and Android mobile devices, a capability that most competitors would usually branch out into a separate product. Disk Drill for Mac runs natively on M1 devices without Rosetta.

The program is able to scan system disks on devices with T2 and M1 processors.

It’s possible to launch Disk Drill without installation from macOS Recovery Mode.ĭeep scan of T2\M1 devices. In certain scenarios, the program can mount even those disk images (.dmg and other supported formats) that can't be mounted by macOS itself. The program does a great job of restoring the original structure of files and folders on FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, and APFS partitions. data from all compatible devices, including spinning hard drives in older Macs as well as fast SSDs in M1 Macs.Ĭlever scan. Disk Drill for Mac excels at detecting professional raw video formats like Apple ProRes or Braw. There are 4 view options: files, files and icons, folders, and folders with icons. The raw image scanner is one of the best on the market because it can detect the largest number of raw file formats.

The program can generate previews for all file formats supported by macOS. The results of all scans can be mounted as a virtual disk and browsed using Finder.įile previews. Included with Disk Drill for Mac are many extra free utilities that greatly increase the value of the software.

When you buy Disk Drill for Mac, you also unlock Disk Drill for Windows.Ībundance of extra utilities.
