Let me start with, this is maybe the 2nd review I've ever written in my life…however, minutes ago I was absolutely shocked with the performance and capability of this software.
I've had this 3TB hard drive for over 8 years now, consistently storing/moving decent-sized files daily. Well, my luck finally ran out this weekend, and the drive stopped showing up on my computer. I scanned it and sure enough, received a popup telling me my drive was damaged and to backup/restore it immediately. Over 90% of the sectors had failed within the drive, making it nearly impossible to transfer anything directly from the drive to another external storage device. I went through Disk Drill to perform a backup, and within minutes, I was able to find the hidden 3TB drive, search for the lost/damaged files, and export the data to another SSD. It found over 1.8TB worth of data, and saved all of it to my SSD overnight. I was able to recover data from the day I bought the hard drive in 2015. Lots of sentimental photos and videos of family, and many time-intensive projects that I had worked on.
I will say, I have the paid version of this software. But I cannot explain how much it has saved me. I called up a local data recovery company, which quoted me an outrageous number for their service, and they had to hold my drive for almost a week. I was able to perform a similar process, at home, for 1/10 of the price and time. A little due diligence goes a long way. Thank you CleverFiles and support team, you guys are fantastic.
I've been using this for data recovery and for duplicate storage management for around 6 months, and I can't tell you how much it has helped. There hasn't been a file that I have lost that I haven't been about to fully recover and use for projects. It has saved my butt multiple times. Even recovered files from 10+ years ago that I lost on an old external hard drive! Love the product! Thank you Dev team for continuing to keep up with and improve an already great product as well!
I used Disk drill pro to recover 1TB of data from a failed hard drive. A faultless process with online tutorials as a guide ,which meant I hadn't lost 5 years of data, I was very happy with the results and would recommend this software to anyone with a similar problem. It was worth. every penny.
On top of that, later, when there was a problem with my payment for the software through what was frankly a stupid mistake on my part. The guys at clever files couldn't have been more helpful and understanding. The best after sales experience I've ever had online!
22 hours later, I have all 700GB back. Big props to @Cleverfiles for helping me recover everything INCLUDING the file structure of my SSD.
Off to the liquor store! I must make sure that if I ever do something this stupid ever again that I have enough alcohol to make me forget.
A while ago I reluctantly decided to keep my two damaged HDs. I hoped one day there will be a way to retrieve my entire month of Buchla and Serge recordings i did in Stockholm’s EMS. And yes, this day has arrived. Almost 1000 files. Thank you, #diskdrill
👨🏻🏫 Public Service announcement…
🗄️ Back up your files.
⚠️ Backing up on just one other hard drive doesn’t guarantee their safety.
😱 Hard drives can corrupt.
😊 @cleverfiles works brilliantly at recovering corrupted hard drives.
Gets the job done really quick and without all the ads.
Would like to see a auto clear button for RAM and Cache but other than that really good.
DiskDrill, just recovered over 500MB of photos from an SD card at work an hour ago using the tool. It’s easy to use and has a high success rate. If it’s not showing on the PC when you put the card in, that’s more serious. Hope this helps
Lost some very important files for some upcoming videos due to a corrupted hard drive.
Gotta give a shoutout to @Cleverfiles and their software “Disk Drill” for helping me get those files back!!
This has been a very stressful day but I can sleep easy tonight 😁
1. When can you EVER download a free trial and get immediate tech support? They did not even know if I were going to buy it and yet these folks ROCK.
2. My SATA drive for my VR system blew over Thanksgiving and my GKids were crushed until we slapped in a M2 SSD card and got it back online BUT the SATA drive was "junk" a "boat anchor" according to my IT son.
3. I'm 70 years young and I had a gut feeling he was wrong and the data could be retrieved and I tried a few ways to access it, to no avail.
4. Enter Disk Drill.
5. I did have some "install" issues (my bad) and the folks at Disk Drill were extremely helpful and from there it was WAM BAM rock'in and roll'in.
6. I recovered ALL 1.7 TB's of data and records with ONE file that had an issue. Everything is now backed up and ready to be moved to my new Seagate Barracuda Drive when it gets here.
7. If you have ever been worried about using 3rd party software that make HUGE claims about how good their stuff is – Look No Further. Honestly – I can't wait for one of my kids to say "Dad? My Hard Drive crashed – can you fix it for me?" Life is good. 🙂