Disk Drill 4.2 for Windows is available for download and update. In this release, we’ve devoted a ton of attention to NTFS recovery and overall scanning stability, including multiple improvements in specific file signatures; fixing some annoying crashes along the way.
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New
- Completely revamped NTFS scanning and recovery module restores more data from formatted drives, corrupted partitions, and other critical data loss cases
Improvements
- NTFS scanning now supports compressed volumes
- Fluent disk backup progress indication
- Recovery Vault data protection initiation
- Preview of recoverable files in cases of multiple storage device disconnects while scanning
- NTFS scanning status messages
- Multiple improvements and fixes when choosing recovery destination folder
- PUB files recovery for Microsoft Publisher documents
- Deep-scanning for MSI (MS Windows Installer format recovery), DOC (MS Word), and PDF (Portable Document Format) file formats
- Installation routines and verification of required files when upgrading from previous versions of Disk Drill
- Connection status tracking for scanned storage devices
- Disk Drill deinstallation and back-end cleanup
- Full target recovery location shown on hover in the final steps of the scanning process
- 32-bit systems will not scan past 1 million items due to RAM constraints
Fixes
- Crash when deleting scan session files from read-only drives
- A bunch of other crashes while scanning and running the recovery phase
- Crash when starting Disk Drill while its config file was blocked by another process
- Crash while recovering RAF files (Fujifilm RAW image data)
- Occasional crashes while searching for lost partitions
- Crash when reading and updating S.M.A.R.T. disk data
- Random crashes when recovering from NTFS drives with enabled compression flags
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.updated: June 3, 2021 author: