Version History
Here you can find the changelog of Disk Drill for Windows since it was posted on our website on 2015-09-20.
The latest version is 5.3.826 and it was updated on soft112.com on 27 March, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 5.3.826
posted on 2023-07-13
* New: RAID arrays backup is now available
* New: New file types supported by Deep Scan - Lotus Notes Archive (.nsf)
* New: Apple RAIDs 0/1/JBOD created on macOS computers are now supported for recovery
* New: The context menu in the scan results list got the "Show in Explorer" option for convenience
* New: Improved identification of GUID Partition Tables and MBR partition tables maximizing outcomes when looking for lost partitions
* Improved: If some of the disks of a scanned RAID array are offline, the array is highlighted in red to draw immediate attention
* Improved: Improved scanning for RAID arrays with JBOD configurations in cases when one of the disks is offline
* Improved: Improved interface performance when looking for lost partitions
* Improved: Filtering of scan results is now 35-50% faster
* Improved: Improved performance when searching through scan results
* Improved: Improved handling of found files in case their original modification date cannot be correctly recovered
* Fixed: Hex View option in scan results context menu was disabled in some cases
* Fixed: Incorrect scrolling behavior in scan results
* Fixed: Hex View window glitching when maximized
* Fixed: Scan results selection with space key glitch in offline scan sessions
* Fixed: A crash occurring during disk disconnection and reconnection
* Fixed: A crash occurring if the app was closed during rescanning of a disk
* Fixed: Disk Drill would sometimes remain active in the background after quitting
version 5.1.808
posted on 2023-02-28
* New: File recovery from Windows Storage Spaces (also known as Storage Pool)
* New: Faster scanning times thanks to new caching algorithms
* New: Even more file signatures are now discovered by Deep Scan: TAR - Tape Archive files; ZPR, ZBR - Pixologic ZBrush 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting; PCBDOC, PCBLIB, SCHLIB, SCHDOC - Altium Designer; GED - GEDCOM Genealogy Data files; XCF - eXperimental Computing Facility, the native image format of the GIMP image-editing; PPM - Flipnote Studio Animation files; ANX - HotDocs answer files; SPP - Substance Painter Project; PRJPCB - Altium Designer project files; XHW - ChamSys MagicQ icon snapshot files; ARI, ARX - ARRIRAW images.
* New: All previously connected Disk Images are reconnected upon Disk Drill restart
* Improved: Scan sessions are properly timestamped corresponding to users' computer regional settings
* Improved: Disk Drill now shows even more details about lost partitions while scanning
* Improved: Better detection of RAID arrays with missing drives
* Improved: RAID arrays with an unidentified file system are labeled as RAW
* Improved: Improved installation path verification
* Improved: Refined scan results filters
* Improved: Refined user interface and preview of recoverable files
* Improved: A better logical presentation of available recovery destination drives
* Improved: Improvements in Disk Drill's Dark Mode
* Improved: Even more M1V files are now found during Deep Scan
* Improved: Show in Explorer option navigates to partially created Disk Backup file (DMG) even when backup process was not completed
* Improved: Deep Scan is even faster now thanks to enhancements in file and folder reconstruction algorithm
* Improved: Lots of improvements in FAT32 data recovery
* Improved: A more precise scan progress info, especially when dealing with larger files
* Fixed: Fixed error while scanning for folders and files with lengthier paths (e.g. multiple subfolders)
* Fixed: Rare offline activation issues fixed
* Fixed: Certain values were not shown properly or not shown at all after loading a recent session
* Fixed: The app performance when devices are disconnected and reconnected during an ongoing scan
* Fixed: Minor interface glitches while adding items for recovery
* Fixed: The name of the scanned drive was not displayed after loading an interrupted scan session
* Fixed: The rare hidden system files filtering issues
* Fixed: Random app crash issues during the license activation
* Fixed: Untimely success message when an interrupted scan session was loaded
* Fixed: Recent session disk name display issues
* Fixed: Incorrect display of free space on RAID arrays available for saving the recovery results
version 4.5.616
posted on 2022-08-04
* Improvements: Multiple file signatures within Deep Scan optimized
* Improvements: Deep Scan speed slightly advanced on hard disk drives
* Improvements: Minor UI updates
* Fixes: Interface module could crash when system UI scaling was changed
version 4.3.586
posted on 2021-06-17
* A new centralized Settings menu has been assembled for your utter convenience
* The recovered files are now comprehensively listed with their recovery statuses
* Deep Scan now processes only empty space on disk to save time
* Disk Drill can now estimate the recovery chances for each recoverable file, when you use All recovery methods, Quick or Deep scan
* Disk Drill can find existing as well as deleted files in Trash and Recycle Bin on FAT32, exFAT and NTFS volumes
* Generating thumbnails status is now displayed after scanning with the info on how many files were already processed
* Disk Drill improves restoration of the original file names during Quick and Deep scan
* S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is greatly improved in general as well as its support for many specific devices including Seagate SSD, Kingston SA400, ADATA 650U, SanDisk SSD, KIOXIA SATA SSD, Goldenfir SATA SSD, Seagate BarraCuda SSD, Apacer AS350, YMTC SATA SSD, KLEVV NEO N610 SSD
* S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is now much better at reading the SSD life and health parameters as well as Helium Level for hard disk drives
* Disk Drill properly detects when FAT32 volume is disconnected and stops the ongoing scan
* Greatly improved detection of lost NTFS volumes and files based on recoverable MFT entries
* FAT32 volumes are scanned much faster and more efficiently thanks to optimized operations for file name resolving
* Now Disk Drill works even better with compressed NTFS volumes
* Greatly improved Deep Scan of ExFAT volumes with a vast amount of deleted and existing data
* Improved usability during scan of partitions encrypted with BitLocker
* Deep Scan works even better with damaged NTFS drives improved meta-data processing
* Deep Scan can now find and display deleted files on NTFS partitions encrypted with BitLocker
* Multiple improvements when filtering recoverable items
* Optimized recovery from NTFS partitions when parsing files with the same file locators and incorrect NTFS conditions when file data wasnt properly stored on a disk
* Fixed file selection in the list of recoverable items when folders contained entries with the same filename
* Optimized and revised Deep Scan for such file formats as TIFF, PSD, TTF, JPG, MOV, PDF, DOC
* Files with long names are displayed properly in Hex view
* Improved Byte-to-Byte Backup module usability
* Minor tweaks in Disk Drills interface for even better user experience: more file details when previewing videos, better informer on disconnected devices, etc.
* Improved recovery of files with corrupted sector records when deep-scanning NTFS partitions
* Detection of Insta360 One X2 file signatures within Deep Scan
* Disks with hardware issues are now marked red in the Disk List
* Deep Scan now recovers files encoded with H.265, XAVC codec
* Disk Drill now properly reads S.M.A.R.T. parameters for drives inaccessible via PhysicalDriveID
* NTFS Quick Scan improvements for different types of volumes and recovery scenarios
* Improved file selection it is now disabled when the current disk is disconnected or filtering returns an empty result
* Improved detection of improper exFAT volumes
* Improved detection of drives disconnected during file recovery phase
* Improved selection of recoverable items in saved scanning sessions
version 4.2.568
posted on 2021-02-23
* Completely revamped NTFS scanning and recovery module restores more data from formatted drives, corrupted partitions, and other critical data loss cases
* NTFS scanning now supports compressed volumes
* Fluent disk backup progress indication
* Recovery Vault data protection initiation
* Preview of recoverable files in cases of multiple storage device disconnects while scanning
* NTFS scanning status messages
* Multiple improvements and fixes when choosing recovery destination folder
* PUB files recovery for Microsoft Publisher documents
* Deep-scanning for MSI (MS Windows Installer format recovery), DOC (MS Word), and PDF (Portable Document Format) file formats
* Installation routines and verification of required files when upgrading from previous versions of Disk Drill
* Connection status tracking for scanned storage devices
* Disk Drill deinstallation and back-end cleanup
* Full target recovery location shown on hover in the final steps of the scanning process
* 32-bit systems will not scan past 1 million items due to RAM constraints
* Crash when deleting scan session files from read-only drives
* A bunch of other crashes while scanning and running the recovery phase
* Crash when starting Disk Drill while its config file was blocked by another process
* Crash while recovering RAF files (Fujifilm RAW image data)
* Occasional crashes while searching for lost partitions
* Crash when reading and updating S.M.A.R.T. disk data
* Random crashes when recovering from NTFS drives with enabled compression flags
version 4.1.551
posted on 2020-12-11
* Extended selection controls in the recovery tree
* New option to "Select only files that were not recovered yet" in the recovery tree
* Auto-resuming scans of frequently disconnecting devices
* Disk Drill's Deep Scan learns new file formats for Ichitaro Word Processor - .JTD, .JTDC, .JTT, and .JTTC, as well as .PUB (MS Publisher documents)
* NTFS scanning stability
* FAT32 recovery stability enhancements
* Window size saving and restoring
* Device status and other notifications design
* Saving and resuming scans
* MS Office DOC/DOCX file format detection while deep-scanning
* ZIP and RAR archives recovery and file naming
* Detection and recovery of TTF, ICNS and PDF file formats
* Recovery speed and memory footprint
* Updated sequence of scanning methods for improved recoverability and bad sectors detection
* After-scan file postprocessing now shows in GUI as "Reconstructing files and folders"
* File previews and hex viewer properly disabled for offline scanning sessions
* Refreshed visuals and next steps in the final recovery screen
* Disk Drill now properly handles recovery attempts to read-only devices
* Preview pane controls consistency
* Disk Drill can now save interrupted scanning sessions for disconnected storage devices
* Quick Scans on NTFS partitions with cluster size bigger than 64 KB
* Recovery destination selection dialog
* Undelete Protected Data now properly handles read-only devices
* More consistent app window dimensions in various screen configurations
* Multiple improvements in "Select All" functionality throughout Disk Drill's modules
* Disk status updates could overlap scanning messages and other messaging improvements
* Multiple in-app search improvements
* A bunch of random crashes related to scanning and loading saved sessions
* Disk switched into read-only status after partial session loading
* Random crashes related to Disk Drill's system tray menu
* Crash when detecting TIFF file signature as part of deep scans
* Crashes related to non-accessible session files
* Offline license activation on Windows 7
* Data Protection can no longer be enabled on read-only devices
* Crashes when EXT partitions were created while Disk Drill was active in the background
* Occasional crash when scanning HFS+ partitions
* Error messages when quitting Disk Drill right after starting the app
* Session autosaving on device disconnection
* Rare crashes when restoring Disk Drill after PC's sleep mode
* Visual fixes when searching for long file names in Disk Drill's scanning results
* Occasional freeze when loading saved session files
* Session auto-saving on multiple device disconnects
* Continue button could be truncated due to long device name
* Glitchy sorting by name in some UI modes
* Save session button disappeared after file recovery
version 4.0.533
posted on 2020-08-11
* MP3 files labeling based on ID3 tags
* Quick Scan on EXT2, EXT3, EXT4 partitions (Linux file system recovery)
* ZIP file names generated by Deep Scan
* detection of PCX files during Deep Scan
* internal logging while scanning for lost data and recovering found items
* internal installation verifications on Windows 10
* Back button behavior when resuming scan and completing a disk backup
* some random crashes during FAT32 and NTFS scans
* loading saved recovery sessions from past versions of Disk Drill
* Deep Scan could crash during AAC file decoding
* corrupted hex view for some recovery methods
* random occasional crashes when mounting scan results as a drive
* random crashes when exiting Disk Drill with scan results mapped to a drive
version 4.0.528
posted on 2020-07-07
* New: Deep Scan learns to recover RAR5 (recent WinRAR compressed file format)
* New: Home button on the final recovery screen takes users back to the disk list in one click, improves internal Disk Drill navigation
* Updated: S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring code, more storage devices supported
* Improved: scan and recovery from damaged ExFAT file systems once it can't be mounted
* Improved: scanning and recovery, original file name detection for archives like ZIP, CAB, RAR, RAR5
* Improved: NTFS scanning and recovery results, original file path detection
* Improved: FAT32 scanning and recovery, inconsistent blank file names
* Improved: proper AAC file detection in Deep Scan
* Improved: Deep Scan stability while extracting metadata from TIFF, JPG, and X3F formats
* Improved: proper detection of M4B files (MPEG-4 Audio Books)
* Improved: support of Zalman docking stations, corrected lost and live partition detection
* Improved: Disk Drill installation speed when damaged devices are attached
* Improved: error messages for unstable scans and storage devices
* Improved: support of larger NTFS cluster sizes
* Improved: S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring can now be disabled in the app (via 3-dot menu)
* Improved: Disk Drill window saves its dimensions and screen position more consistently
* Improved: security fixes in Recovery Vault
* Fixed: internal Disk Drill navigation in Lost Partition Scans
* Fixed: some occasional crashes while saving scan sessions
* Fixed: occasional crashes while detecting TIFF files
version 4.0.518
posted on 2020-04-06
New UI; Faster scans; Enhanced scan process management; Data recovery from Bitlocker-protected drives; Better preview; Extended RAW support; Smarter Recovery Vault feature; All recoverable data can be mounted as a virtual drive
version 4.0.499
posted on 2019-10-23
Improved and updated ExFAT data recovery; Internal updates in FAT32 and NTFS smart recovery algorithms; Disk Drill adds initial S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring; Disk Drill automatically attempts to remount storage devices into read-only mode to prevent further data loss before scanning; Deep Scan learns DMF (Geosystem Digitals Map File) and improves on MPO (Multi Picture Object File) and a number of font (TTF, EOT, WOFF, WOFF2, RPP) file formats recovery
version 2.0.0.339
posted on 2018-12-14
Improving FAT32 and ExFAT Recovery; Major improvements in FAT32 partition recovery; Critical fixes when recovering from ExFAT partitions
version 2.0.0.323
posted on 2018-02-13
Improved initial disk detection and enumeration; multiple new file signatures added to Deep Scan
version 2.0.0.313
posted on 2017-11-27
* Improved NTFS drives enumeration
* Multiple internal fixes and improvements
version 2.0.0.285
posted on 2016-05-12
* Internal Deep Scan improvements
* Better listing of partitions, when their names cannot be retrieved
* Several activation enhancements
* Fixed final recovery steps if the original path contained reserved or invalid characters
version 1.0.0.188
posted on 2015-06-22
new: multi-format byte-to-byte disk backups (ISO, IMG)
improved: search in found items after scanning for recoverable data
improved: smoother scrolling in scanning results
improved: disks and partitions visibility status in the main screen
improved: FAT and NTFS systems low-level reading
