Drag the Disk Drill icon to the folder to complete the entire process. After that, you can now launch Disk Drill through the Applications folder, your Dock, or Spotlight. With Disk Drill open, click on the SSD you want to scan and recover data from. There are several types of recovery methods you can choose from, but we recommend using the All recovery methods option. Click on Search for lost data to begin the recovery process. This will take several minutes to maybe half an hour, depending on the size of your SSD and the speed of your Mac. After completing the scan, you’ll be shown a data recovery report with all the files that were recovered from your SSD. You should be able to review all the deleted and even corrupted files that were found on your SSD from there. Just click on Review found items at the bottom-right corner of your window. On the new window with all your recovered files, look for the data you want to recover. Once you’ve located the files you want to save, click and highlight them, then click on Recover at the bottom-right corner of your screen. You’ll be asked for a destination folder, which is where your recovered files will go. If you were able to successfully recover data from your SSD, congratulations! Thankfully you were able to make it in the nick of time. For those of you who always want to keep some form of backup for your files, we suggest using Apple’s Time Machine feature. If you’re working on a corrupted SSD, you may want to do a clean reset and reformat it to preserve its health. Corrupted SSDs are salvageable, but if Disk Drill says that your SSD is about to fail, then you’ll have to replace the disk through a certified Apple repair shop.

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