8/16/2023 0 Comments Disk drill recovery reviewI 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. But I cannot explain how much it has saved me. I will say, I have the paid version of this software. Lots of sentimental photos and videos of family, and many time-intensive projects that I had worked on. I was able to recover data from the day I bought the hard drive in 2015. It found over 1.8TB worth of data, and saved all of it to my SSD overnight. 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. 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 scanned it and sure enough, received a popup telling me my drive was damaged and to backup/restore it immediately. ![]() Well, my luck finally ran out this weekend, and the drive stopped showing up on my computer. I've had this 3TB hard drive for over 8 years now, consistently storing/moving decent-sized files daily. 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. Grit your teeth and pay for the pro upgrade. Disk Drive worked for me – it did take about 20 mins to recover a 250GB chunk of my portable drive – so figure about an hour or so to recover a full 1TB. Don't know what corrupted the 4TB drive yet. Wish I could charge the software purchase price back to WD but not sure it's their fault yet at WD, never had a problem with WD portable SSDs before until now. A quick search online revealed most of the other Mac data recovery apps were about the same initial purchase price but only Disk Drill offered a lifetime of free upgrades for a small extra fee, so that was my decision maker to buy. Free version of Disk Drill found the majority of files were still okay on the portable drive, however only the paid version would restore them. Mac's own built in Disk Utility couldnt repair that portable drive, only said it could erase it and reformat which was obviously not what I needed with almost 3/4TB of saved files on the portable drive. My brand new 1 month old WD portable 4TB USB drive suddenly stopped mounting to my Mac this morning and files couldn't read or write. ![]() I guess it was worth the Pro price and 5 star rating because it quickly and easily did what it promised it would do which was recover my entire USB drive – once I upgraded to the paid version. Had to upgrade to the Pro version to accomplish my drive recovery.
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