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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1851362" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I just did a test run of Disk Drill. I took a USB thumb drive that I've used for a variety of needs over the years, but was at that moment formatted in ExFAT and empty. I formatted it in HFS+; copied over a movie in MKV format, a folder of desktop wallpaper in jpg format, and folder of m4a music tracks. I then rebooted into Windows; re-formatted the USB drive as NTFS; then rebooted back into macOS. I ran Disk Drill on this thumb drive, still formatted as NTFS and "empty". The results? HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL! Not only did it find ALL of my test files, but I was able to validate even in the free version that the JPGs were good (it uses Quick Look). The music tracks? All there, WITH the cover art visible in quick look. Same for my video, which also had embedded cover art.</p><p></p><p>But that's not all! It found a plethora of other files, including some RTF documents that were readable using Quick Look and referenced High Sierra. I've used this thumb drive previously as a High Sierra bootable installer, so that's where those came from. But WOW! Given that, and that this drive was last formatted in ExFAT before my little trial, the drive was reformatted AT LEAST 3 times since used as that installer. What's more? I only scanned the partition, not the whole drive. The partition is formatted for the whole drive, but DD says it might be able to find more recoverable files by doing a deep scan on the entire drive. Check out screen grabs below. First are caps of the Finder contents before I formatted it. Then Disk Drill's results after scanning the reformatted and "empty" drive (again, it's an NTFS-formatted drive at this point, but I'm running DD in macOS); and a couple Quick Look caps of what it found.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]31633[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31634[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31636[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31637[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31638[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1851362, member: 38864"] I just did a test run of Disk Drill. I took a USB thumb drive that I've used for a variety of needs over the years, but was at that moment formatted in ExFAT and empty. I formatted it in HFS+; copied over a movie in MKV format, a folder of desktop wallpaper in jpg format, and folder of m4a music tracks. I then rebooted into Windows; re-formatted the USB drive as NTFS; then rebooted back into macOS. I ran Disk Drill on this thumb drive, still formatted as NTFS and "empty". The results? HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL! Not only did it find ALL of my test files, but I was able to validate even in the free version that the JPGs were good (it uses Quick Look). The music tracks? All there, WITH the cover art visible in quick look. Same for my video, which also had embedded cover art. But that's not all! It found a plethora of other files, including some RTF documents that were readable using Quick Look and referenced High Sierra. I've used this thumb drive previously as a High Sierra bootable installer, so that's where those came from. But WOW! Given that, and that this drive was last formatted in ExFAT before my little trial, the drive was reformatted AT LEAST 3 times since used as that installer. What's more? I only scanned the partition, not the whole drive. The partition is formatted for the whole drive, but DD says it might be able to find more recoverable files by doing a deep scan on the entire drive. Check out screen grabs below. First are caps of the Finder contents before I formatted it. Then Disk Drill's results after scanning the reformatted and "empty" drive (again, it's an NTFS-formatted drive at this point, but I'm running DD in macOS); and a couple Quick Look caps of what it found. [ATTACH=FULL]31633[/ATTACH][ATTACH=FULL]31634[/ATTACH][ATTACH=FULL]31636[/ATTACH][ATTACH=FULL]31637[/ATTACH][ATTACH=FULL]31638[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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