![]() There should be a big green button to download it for free: To install Disk Drill, go to and click either the “Data recovery for Mac” or “Data recovery for Windows” header links. I strongly recommend only downloading Disk Drill from (the company behind it) and no third-party source. I was able to install it within a couple of minutes:Īnd here’s roughly what it’ll look like when you open it for the first time: At the time of writing, the current version of Disk Drill is about 34MB, so perfectly reasonable. What follows is a simple demonstration on how to use the quick scan, deep scan and allocate existing data features of Disk Drill. On my fairly new laptop with just a few GB of storage used, Disk Drill completed a quick scan on my main hard drive in just a couple of minutes:ĭisk Drill will then likely bring back a bunch of different files, many of which you’ve probably never looked at:ĭeep scan in Disk Drill is vastly more comprehensive than the quick scan above, and may take you over 100 times longer. Here’s what the deep scan looked like on my machine after running it for a while: You can try the quick scan first, and if it doesn’t find whatever files you’re looking for, only then run a deep scan. You can see that after running for just a little while (see the bottom-left), vastly more files were found than in the entire quick scan. For example, on my laptop which I brought brand new in 2020, it was finding random images apparently dated back to 2016: As with the quick scan, you may be surprised what it brings back. The name “deep scan” would therefore seem appropriate. Used if you don’t think you’ve deleted the file(s) you’re trying to find, but you can’t find them in Windows Explorer. This will bring back a lot:ĭisk Drill also has search for lost partitions and undelete protected data features, but I haven’t yet tested these at this time.
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