Disk Drill is set to work as is right out of the box, but there are a number of preferences you can apply. These are some suggestions, and they’re entirely options—they’re not required to run the scanning process. These include S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring, which watches your drives for potential hardware. .
The next step is to move onto the actual scanning and recovery. First, though, you need to identify the disk you want to scan. You’ll see two sections in the main. .
Once the scan is completed and you’re located the images you’re after, it’s time to move onto the recovery process. To perform the actual recovery, you’ll need a. .
While I’m focusing here on photo and video files on a memory card, Disk Drill will happily work with just about any filetype on just about any type of local storage device. In this case, the NEF files were recovered as NRW files, but on my Mac, those are treated as if they were NEF and work normally (both extensions are used by Nikon for RAW.
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