

"I accidentally deleted some files on my Macbook and attempted to use Disk Drill to retrieve them back. While Disk Drill was originally exclusive to the Mac, a Windows version was released in 2015. It was introduced in 2010, and is primarily designed to recover deleted or lost files from hard disk drives, USB flash drives and SSD drives with the help of Recovery Vault technology. Local Time Machine snapshots, on the other hand, are saved on the system drive when backup disks are not available, and Disk Drill can also scan them for you.ĭisk Drill is a data recovery utility for Windows and macOS developed by Cleverfiles. Such disks are automatically detected by Disk Drill, and you can scan them with just a click.

Time Machine backup disks are external or network-attached storage devices where incremental backups of your files are saved.

Permanently deleted files that have become overwritten by new data can still be recovered from existing backups, and Disk Drill makes this easier by parsing Time Machine backup disks and scanning local Time Machine snapshots. The macOS operating system gives such a privileged level of access only to the most trusted software, and Disk Drill is the premier solution to recover deleted data not only from external drives, but also system disks powering Macs with Intel, Apple T2, M1 and M2 chips. As a comprehensive data recovery app, Disk Drill requires low-level access to the scanned storage devices.
