In order to designate which types of files I wanted to search for on my first scan, rather than having them right up front and obvious I had to dig into the (very limited) preferences menu to find how to scan by filetype only.

Getting Disk Drill installed on our test system was quick, painless, and took less than three minutes from downloading on the CleverFiles site to having the software activated and ready for its first scan.ĭisk Drill is one of the more modern-looking data recovery applications I’ve used lately, however it suffers from the same problem as EaseUS in that its minimal design may actually be too minimal for the average user. Read on in our Disk Drill Recovery Pro review to find out what we liked and what we didn’t like. Spoiler Alert: Disk Drill Recovery Pro is fast and easy to use but falls short of top rated products such as Data Rescue 5 which we reviewed here. But just because an application has been around a long time doesn’t always mean it’s doing a better job than the rest of the competition, so how does Disk Drill stack up in the rankings?

Disk Drill is one of the oldest data recovery software options in the game, having been around in some form or another since 2010.

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