Data Recovery
Samsung Phone Recovery
Samsung is the leader in the worldwide smartphone market, offering both outstanding budget and mid-range devices as well as cutting-edge flagship models that never fail to receive raving reviews. Considering the popularity of Samsung smartphones, it’s no wonder that Samsung […]
Disk Drill 3.5 for Mac – the Significant Release for macOS 10.13 High Sierra
Last year Apple’s Mac OS X was officially renamed into macOS. And this year we are having the next major macOS, which is High Sierra. Disk Drill is traditionally ready for all the updates in the Apple’s eco-system. But there’s […]
Everything You Need to Know about Rooting your Android Device
We all want to get the most out of our devices. Unfortunately, your Android device comes heavily locked down. For most people, this is a good thing. No program can change important settings or tamper with system software, protecting you […]
macOS 10.13-10.15: Connect this Mac to Another Mac in Target Disk Mode
Connect this Mac to another Mac Difficulty: Easy Time required: 15 min or less Extra: another Mac; USB-C, FireWire or Thunderbolt cable Connect this Mac to another Mac in Target Disk Mode YouTube | CleverFiles Problem Overview Starting with macOS […]
macOS 10.11 – 10.15: Create a Recovery Boot Drive
Create a Recovery Boot Drive Difficulty: Very easy Time required: 15 min or less Extra devices: any USB flash drive, 8GB+ Create a Recovery Boot Drive for macOS 10.11 El Capitan – macOS 10.15 Catalina YouTube | 508 Software Problem […]
Configure File System Protection in macOS 10.13+
Configure File System Protection Difficulty: Easy Time required: 10 min or less Extra devices: none How to Disable File System Protection in macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, or Big Sur YouTube | CleverFiles Problem Overview In order to recover lost […]
On The Verge of SSD Recovery with Disk Drill
You have likely seen computer advertisements or even the specs to your own computer mention an “SSD Drive”. With so many flashy words and complicated terms in computer marketing it’s very easy to ignore all the new and important developments […]
Disk Drill and iOS 10.3
The arrival of Apple’s iOS 10.3 software brings some subtle but welcome changes for Apple products using this operating system including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. However, even though it has a more efficient file system, the overall complexity […]
The Elegance in Competition
Disk Drill is the world’s leading file recovery solution however we have always had stiff competition. We have never seen our competition as a threat but more of a healthy opportunity to grow. Quite frankly we love competition at Disk […]
What is APFS, Apple’s New File System?
APFS (Apple File System) is a new file system for Apple-compatible storage devices such as hard drives, flash drives and other removable storage. APFS, also referred to as APFS MacOS, will work on most MacOS, iOS, tvOS and even watchOS […]
Are Disk Drill for Mac and Windows Identical?
How are Disk Drill for Mac and Disk Drill for Windows different? Are they the same app for different platforms? Or how do they compare feature-wise? Why is Disk Drill for Mac more expensive than the Windows Edition? Will they […]
Can I recover deleted email from my iPhone or iPad?
It probably happened to all of us. Trashing an important email takes a tap, and it takes a second to realize it was that very email you might need for tomorrow’s demo, or what not… you may want to recover this […]
Verifying recovery chances for DMG files
An Apple Disk Image (a file with DMG extension) is a disk image widely used in macOS. When opened or double-clicked, an Apple disk image gets “mounted” as a new volume in Finder. When mounted, you would usually see multiple files inside the new volume. […]
Managing bad sectors in Disk Drill
As you know, you can always manually set memory sectors (or blocks) on your storage device as “bad” in Disk Drill. Or vice versa, you can always navigate to “Сontext menu -> Specify bad blocks” on your hard drives to […]
Disk Drill vs Data Rescue, DiskWarrior, R-Studio. Choose the best data recovery app.
The choice of quality data recovery tools for macOS is in fact limited to several high-end players you have probably heard about: Disk Drill by CleverFiles, Data Rescue by Prosoft, DiskWarrior by Alsoft, Data Recovery Wizard by Easeus, TechTool by Micromat, Stellar Phoenix […]
HFS+ Healing Algorithms in Disk Drill
Disk Drill is a powerful HFS+ data recovery tool, and in addition to regular file recovery from HFS+ partitions, it can actually make an attempt to recover the original partition itself after it was lost or damaged. All available data recovery methods […]
Should I keep using a damaged drive after successful data recovery?
So you have just completed a successful data recovery session with Disk Drill for Mac or Windows from a damaged external drive. Thank you for using our data recovery apps, btw. Now you may ask yourself if you should continue using that drive, […]
Can Recovery Vault be used in forensic research?
Occasionally we are getting requests from various law enforcement organizations throughout the world about Disk Drill and its forensic features. In addition to Forensic Data Export in DFXML format, turns out many are able to utilize other functions of Disk Drill for making our world a […]
Is it possible to recover data directly in NAS?
Yes, Disk Drill 3+ supports data recovery of Linux drives, such as EXT3 and EXT4, but you will need to extract the target drive from NAS and plug this drive into the dock station that will be connected directly to […]
Is it possible to recover RAIDs?
You can try to recover RAIDs in Disk Drill. RAID recovery is supported to the extent of scanning individual RAID disks and recovering data on each of them. Disk Drill doesn’t support reconstructing RAIDs themselves. This is something not possible in an […]