🎉 Disk Drill 6 is here!


Disk Drill, the brainchild of CleverFiles, has been upgraded to version 6. Advanced camera recovery, next-gen Byte-to-Byte backups, ReFS lost partition recovery, Windows BitLocker-encrypted partitions, improved faster scans, HEX view for in-depth disk & partition analysis, next-level scanning speed, refined sleeker ui, next-gen NTFS & exFAT recovery, SSH + RAID recovery improvements. Check out the full changelog for details.
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Version 6.3.2326

New

  • Disk Drill can appraise damaged or unplayable video files and recommend the Online Video Repair tool to attempt a recovery of otherwise unrecoverable files
  • Detection and recovery of lost BitLocker partitions
  • .p8 (PKCS#8 with ASN.1 DER) and .pfx (Personal Information Exchange) files are now supported
  • .m4a file support in the ACR module
  • Recovered encrypted files are now sorted into a corresponding group
  • A new encoding algorithm for Notes on iOS devices is supported

Improvements

  • ACR module has multiple stability and performance improvements
  • Better reconstruction of Insta360 files in ACR module
  • ACR module now offers the possibility to decide whether you would like to attempt a recovery of corrupted files or skip them
  • Enhanced Ricoh camera detection in ACR module
  • Enhanced video reconstruction from Uniden cameras in ACR module
  • .rwl file recovery is now possible in ACR module
  • Numerous improvements for processing encrypted APFS partitions and detecting their files
  • Better detection of ReFS partitions, including those with sparse files
  • A new type of bootable disk, ReFS (Windows Server 2025 beta), is now supported
  • DeepFAT32 scanning speeds have been optimized to provide an even faster experience
  • New versions of .rw2 (Panasonic RAW photos) are supported
  • .dng RAW photo detection has been improved
  • .tiff file detection speed and stability have been improved
  • A more optimal critical disk temperature warning is now shown if a disk overheats during a scan
  • More iOS contact information is supported, and all contact data can be exported to HTML
  • Sketches, dates, and location information from the Journal app are now supported for recovery

🐞 Fixes

  • Poor grouping performance for iPhone photos and videos in the ACR module
  • A failure to detect .dng files
  • An issue with byte-to-byte DMG scanning