What is data recovery?
Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible.
In enterprise IT, data recovery typically refers to the restoration of data to a desktop, laptop, server or external storage system from a backup.
Tools for data recovery?
Disk
Drill is a professional-grade file recovery software tool that is designed to
protect your data and retrieve lost information. Disk Drill is a free hard
drive data recovery app for Windows and it supports XP, Vista, 7, 8 and
10. It is a simple program that provides professional-grade
recovery tools such as Deep and Quick Scans can search for and recreate file
systems. Up to 500MB of deleted data can be recovered for free. Disk Drill
supports a wide range of file systems, including NTFS, FAT, HFS, EXT4, exFAT,
and even initialised drives.
Disk
Drill's recovery techniques are including Quick and Deep Scans,
Universal Partition Search, and protected data undeleted. The recovery
procedure is straightforward, and you can pause, save, and reload it whenever
it is convenient for you. Disk Drill can read and recover data from any media
that can be mounted on your Windows PC, including internal and external hard
drives, memory cards, cameras, USB flash drives, and even certain Kindles and
iPods.
When the
scanning is finished, you are given with a tree-like list of recoverable
objects, which contains both discovered and rebuilt files. Disk Drill can
effortlessly recreate hundreds of different file types, including documents,
images, archives, movies, and more. Disk Drill is ready to be your go-to hard
drive recovery program in every situation, including accidental data loss,
an empty Recycle Bin, a virus assault, a lost or inaccessible partition, a
power failure, boot record corruption, and so on. Simple supplementary features
like backup image generation, data protection, and bad sector management, along
with a polished user-friendly interface, assure your happiness with our
low-cost data recovery program.
Installation
- Go to your Applications folder, or Launchpad, and launch Disk Drill. Click the install button to install the Disk Drill tool.
Start Scanning
1. In the main Disk Drill window, you will see a list of drives and devices that can be scanned.
2. If you can’t see the device you wish to scan, click the Grid icon in the top right of the app window and enable the “Show hidden items” option. If it is still not showing, see the
3. Click on the name of the drive that you wish to recover your deleted files from. If your drive has partitions, clicking on the drive name will reveal each of its separate partitions.
4. Before Disk Drill commences a scan, it will check whether it is possible to put the scanned partition in read-only mode. If it is possible, you will see a padlock icon next to the name of this partition. This ensures no other apps can access the disk during the scan and recovery process, and subsequently overwrite any potentially recoverable data.
5. Click "Search for lost data" at the bottom right of the app window. In case you are recovering data for an HFS+ catalog and Disk Drill detected a deleted or corrupted file system, the button will change its colour to yellow and its name to "Rebuild HFS+ catalog".
6. Wait for Disk Drill to finish scanning. If you have a large hard drive or disk, this can take hours (or even days). Starting with Disk Drill 4 there is no need to wait till the scan is over to preview or restore the recoverable files. If no files are found, refer to Troubleshooting Scan Results.
7. Filter the results as needed by keyword, file type, file size and date. Go to Scanning FAQs for more information on filtering.
Analysis of Disk Drill
- Confidentiality - Disk
Drill is safe and will not make any changes to your disks during data recovery.
It is completely safe to simply scan your disk. One caution is to use a
different disk for running Disk Drill and saving restored files than the disk
with the lost files.
- Integrity - It
uses advanced algorithms to scan your drive and pull as much recoverable data
as possible.
- Availability - Free, open source and no costs.