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Recover deleted files on Mac & Windows with Disk Drill

Alexandria, VA
Joined October 2010
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One command shows whether Windows tells your SSD to clear deleted files. Open PowerShell or Command Prompt as administrator and paste: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify 0 means TRIM is on, and a deleted file is usually gone for good. 1 means it's off. Reply with yours.
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Recovered a video and it won't play? Sometimes the file has lost the information a player needs to decode it. Video Repair in Disk Drill can take that from a healthy clip shot on the same camera with the same settings, through Clever Online Video Repair.
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📸 Your iPhone shows each Live Photo as one photo. In storage, it’s two files: the photo and a 3-second movie with motion and sound. Photos shows only the photo’s size. Clever Cleaner shows the full size and turns the ones that don’t need to move into stills. #iPhone #iOS
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Full Disk Access ≠ Background Activity on Mac. Full Disk Access lets Disk Drill scan the folders macOS protects, so deleted files there can be found. Background Activity lets its helpers run for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and alerts. It doesn't give access to your files. #macOS #DataRecovery
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Recovered your video, but it still won't play? Sometimes the file is back, but the recording itself is damaged. Data recovery and video repair are two different things. We've got both covered: Disk Drill for recovery and Clever Online Video Repair for damaged recordings. 🔧 Try it repair.cleverfiles.com/ #DataRecovery #VideoRepair #DiskDrill
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💡 Did you know that scanning a failing hard drive can actually make things worse? If your drive starts acting up, remember: creating a Byte-to-Byte image first lets you recover files from a copy without repeatedly scanning the original. A small detail that could save your data! 💾 #DataRecovery #DiskDrill
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Ever noticed the little stars ⭐ next to files in Disk Drill’s scan results? They’re called Recovery Chances. They estimate how likely each file is to be recovered successfully, helping you decide where to start. You can also preview files before recovering them. 👇 #DiskDrill #DataRecovery #FileRecovery
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Can a photo still be recovered even if its original filename is gone? Yes. A filename and the actual contents of a file are separate pieces of information. So even when the original name can no longer be recovered, Disk Drill may still be able to reconstruct and recover the photo itself. The name may be lost. The photo doesn't have to be. 📸 #DataRecovery #DiskDrill
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Disk Drill 6.3 is here for Windows and Mac. Recover lost BitLocker partitions, get smarter help with damaged videos, scan faster, recover more photos and videos ✨ cleverfiles.com/help/news/ #diskdrill #datarecovery
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Oops, I did it again... I deleted all the video files from my SD card before I actually had them backed up on my NAS. Here's how I recovered them, trying photorec, untrunc, and eventually Disk Drill: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/r…
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📽️Got a video file that won’t play? Disk Drill now lets you send corrupted videos for repair directly from the app (Mac & Windows). #videorepair 🧑‍🔧cleverfiles.com/help/disk-dr…
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Good news! After messing with photorec, untrunc, various fun ffmpeg incantations, etc... I found a GUI app, "Disk Drill", that has 'Advanced Camera Recovery' and pulled the files right back from the dead. I was _close_ with the open source utilities, but the app finished it off
Did not plan on spending 6 hours yesterday and 4 (and counting) today trying to recover some Sony MP4s I fat-fingered out of existence.
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CleverFiles retweeted
So, yesterday one of my disks decided to die. And this bastard did it! The problem was the data because the disk was my backup for some old but important information. Thanks to the gods for Claude and Disk Drill - I recovered all the important stuff. Now I'm thinking about a proper NAS with RAID because you never know when your backup drive will decide to die
If you know, you know 😭
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I want to put a huge shoutout and a massive THANK YOU to @Cleverfiles I accidently deleted my entire OneDrive folder and my computer NEVER backed up. I panicked for the first few hours and a buddy told me about Disk Drill. I got all my legal writings back. Y'all ROCK
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Whew! Got a little itchy with the 'Delete' button and accidentally sent some photos to the ether. Thankfully Disk Drill pulled them from the brink for me 😮‍💨.
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Here’s a piece of software I can wholeheartedly recommend — it has saved my work more than once, including today. An external drive failed, but I was able to recover all the material from my camera’s memory card, even though it had already been formatted twice. 🙌 @Cleverfiles
Disk Drill 6 is officially here! 🚀 See what's new: cleverfiles.com/help/disk-dr… Our biggest release yet brings industry-first fragmented video recovery, next-gen backups with 60% higher success rates, and scans up to 25% faster - on Mac & Windows. 🔹 Advanced Camera Video Recovery 🔹 Redesigned Byte-to-byte Backups 🔹 ReFS & BitLocker (Mac) 🔹 APFS (Win), ARM-ready 🔹 Hex View for pros Secure your files effortlessly. #datarecovery #diskdrill
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CleverFiles retweeted
Clever Cleaner iPhone storage cleanup app: Free to use and free of ads, forever! #sponsored dlvr.it/TLhPyl
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Disk Drill 6 is officially here! 🚀 See what's new: cleverfiles.com/help/disk-dr… Our biggest release yet brings industry-first fragmented video recovery, next-gen backups with 60% higher success rates, and scans up to 25% faster - on Mac & Windows. 🔹 Advanced Camera Video Recovery 🔹 Redesigned Byte-to-byte Backups 🔹 ReFS & BitLocker (Mac) 🔹 APFS (Win), ARM-ready 🔹 Hex View for pros Secure your files effortlessly. #datarecovery #diskdrill
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Photographers, are you looking for something better than coffee? I got something for you. Try corrupt SD Card from a wedding... That will pump your hormones to stratosphere 🚀 But fortunately Disk Drill exists. No commercial here, just praise and big Thank you. All photos back.
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If you have a corrupt video file you cant play, hope isnt lost. Check out the guys @Cleverfiles ! What others wanted to charge me $40-70 for (with marginal results), they did for free, extremely easy to use, and with flawless results. Memories restored - huge thank you guys!
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