I originally bought disk drill to recover media from GoPro SD cards that had been accidentally formatted. It worked amazingly well but it was never a crisis situation until about two years ago when I dropped my main backup disk off my desk, shattering the case on the ground while it was still running, effectively nuking everything I had stored on it, my entire life’s worth of data until that point.
The partition was lost and the disk would no initialize on my mac without manually doing so under utilities. I tried deep file scan and was able to recover some things but not all.
Then, yesterday, after not using disk drill for a long time I took that old broken disk off the shelf and made a sector-by-sector backup to DMG on a new external I just purchased. After it completed, I was able to mount it and THERE WAS ALL MY DATA!!
Years of family photos, countless video projects I have generated, my digital portfolio, tons of media content has been restored. I’m in awe at what you guys have managed to achieve with this tool and so thankful for your work. Upgrading to pro was the literal least I could have ever done. Let me know your Venmo handle and I’ll send you all money for coffee and doughnuts along with more thanks for your amazing work.
My success story with Disk Drill is the following: last day of great family trip to Sri Lanka. Letting daughter play with the camera. All the pictures gone. Disk Drill recovered most of them.
Hi, I’m a video producer and editor and I have used your software for the past 6 years. The first time I used it was when I was editing a documentary teaser and somehow lost my project file. Having completely panicked in the middle of the night I searched online and came across your software. There are many options that available online, some of them don’t work and some are too complicated to use. I thought I’d give yours a try. It was amazing! I recovered a file that if lost would cost me 3 days of work.
Since then I have used your software many times, on drives that needed file recovery and on footage on memory cards that were accidentally formatted on set.
Today your software saved me again on a corrupted CF card. Files were too corrupted to be imported in Adobe Premiere. Quick time couldn’t read them. I formatted the CF card in the camera and ran Disk Drill. All my files were found on a lost partition. Disk Drill has saved my butt in many situations and I want to thank you for that.
Best of luck!
The best Disk Drill review is the number of times it has helped our customers, who have been able to recover their lost files. It is a great tool, easy, simple, pretty and powerful. Álvaro Castellanos Bernardo, Apple
I’m very happy with the result I had after using the Disk Drill software. I was able to recover 100% of the files that had been lost. All tests with several other softwares proved to be much lower, with very small recovery rates. I recommend using Disk Drill! 100% efficient, fast recovery. Congratulations to the staff!
When I searched for some reputable recovery tool, there was a lot of questionable software displayed on Google. CleverFiles is the real deal.
I was able to recover images and videos I had emptied from my trash can hassle-free with this software. CleverFiles makes it quick and easy to get back what you want.
Quick and easy to use, with great customer support. If you need a solid recovery tool, CleverFiles it the way to go.
After suspecting my drive completely dead, I had left it connected to my system while Disk Drill was still active. When I came back to close the software later, suddenly the drive was showing up in the readable volumes in Disk Drill and it wanted to rebuild. I attempted to rebuild the HFS structure (it couldn’t be saved), but it did manage to find all the files on the disk so I was able to mount found items as a volume and get everything copied off. All this to say in a long roundabout way, I was finally able to get the drive to mount before it failed completely and recover the data I needed. Thanks guys
Your product managed to bring back a disk that got corrupted in the middle of permanent full-disk decryption of a 4TB disk… A half-decrypted, corrupted 4TB economy hard disk.
I tried your product after being horribly disappointed with Cisdem, which I had purchased just for this problem… I also tried the free trial version of Data Rescue 4 after Cisdem repeatedly failed.
Neither Cisdem nor Data Recovery 4 could even read the disk… Nor could they write to the disk.. I tried multiple times and multiple reboots and every little trick.. Nothing. They would freeze or just crash my entire computer.
So then I break out Disk Warrior 5 to repair the disk filesystem in the hopes that Cisdem or Data Recovery 4 might then be able to do their magic.
It failed. I will say it got the furthest. It was at least able to read the file system on the disk, but couldn’t repair and couldn’t copy the files off the disk.
So, Disk Drill beat out every single respected tool I could come up with. I’m still in the process of copying all my files, since it is so much data. And the reads are slower because this drive has been through so much. But my files are properly named and they all behave as if nothing ever happened.
Regards