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We do not believe that running data recovery tools in a virtual environment has a significant effect on how they function. We then checked if the utility could see it and if so, tried to recover the files. The drive didn't mount automatically in File Explorer and showed as being unpartitioned in Windows 'Disk Management' utility. Recover files from a corrupted drive: We used the freeware program 'Victoria' to overwrite the volume header of tjhe drive containing the files with zeroes. We then tried to recover the files from the formatted partition.ģ. Delete & Format : The files were deleted as outlined above and we also performed a 'Quick Format' using the 'Disk Management' utility built into Windows 11. File deletion : the album files were simply deleted from the drive and the Recyle Bin emptied. The tests were performed one after the other on three separate virtual drives:ġ. For all intents and purposes it acts as a second hard drive, attached to the main virtual machine. We copied the files in the music album to a 512MB virtual hard drive, which was then attached to the Windows 11 virtual machine. The files also included 2 XML files, a torrent file and an 'SQLite' file containing details of the album.

We did this as we wanted to see how the utility performed with a wide variety of files.The album included 4 music files (2 in Mp3 and 2 in FLAC) format, 6 JPG image files of album covers (with thumbnails) and 2 PNG image files. The files we chose for recovery were an album of Mozart's Music available from the Internet Archive. Our tests were done using the 'Free' version of Disk Drill.

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They also recommend using Windows own built-in CHKDSK and File Recovery or macOS' Disk Utility to scan and repair drives, as well as their own product.ĭisk Drill also supports a wide variety of devices (Image credit: CleverFiles) Disk Drill: How we testedįor our data recovery tests we used a virtual machine with a clean install of Windows 11.

They also clearly state that not all files are recoverable and list reasons why this might be the case including unsupported formats, fragmented or overwritten data and physical damage to the drive. We were very impressed by the level of detail available on the website and how upfront Cleverfiles were about the different types of issues that can affect drives. It detects drives that won't otherwise mount, with options to scan quickly, deep, uncover lost partitions, and even undelete protected data. As well as detecting internal devices and USB drives, Disk Drill lets you attach disk images in a range of formats, including IMG, ISO, and even VMDK disks from VMware virtual PCs. Whatever media you're recovering, Disk Drill gives you the tools to find them.

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Disk Drill also claims to be able to recover data from digital cameras, iPhones, and Android phones. USB drives from SanDisk, Samsung, Kingston, Corsair, and others are also supported, and you should even be able to recover data from SD/CF cards from SanDisk, Transcend, Toshiba, PNY, Kingston, and others.

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You can visit the developer's website to see a full list and request support for other file formats.ĭisk Drill will work with Windows systems with internal or attached HDDs manufactured by HP, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, WD, LaCie, Intel, and others. Further, DOCX, PDF, and XLSX document formats can be recovered, along with ZIP, RAR, and DMG archives and image formats.Īt the time of writing Disk Drill supports 363 different file types in total.

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Whether you're trying to recover images, videos, documents, archives or other file types, Disk Drill has you covered (Image credit: CleverFiles) Disk Drill: FeaturesĪ vast collection of file formats can be recovered with Disk Drill, including (but not limited to) AVI, FLV, and MP4 videos, MP3 and AIFF audio, and BMP, JPEG, JP2, GIF, and PSD images.