UFS Explorer Professional Recovery
version 10.6
24.04.2024
What's new in version 10.6:
- Virtual sector size transformation on images: added possibility to specify a custom source sector size;
- Drives/bridges security: added ATA "security unlock" support (the password must be known, including padding and transformation);
- Added support of password-based full-disk encryption on OpenBSD softraid;
- Added support of OpenBSD softraid (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, Span);
- In disk imager: added a tool to re-image defect blocks (it resets the 'defect' status to the 'unread' status and allows to re-image the 'unread' zones);
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added basic support of multi-tier volumes with several rotation groups;
- Fixed parsing issue of 'parent link' metadata entries (version 2);
- Added a tool to open 'directory-bundled' images from a local file system:
- Added support of macOS sparsebundle/backupbundle format;
- Added support of Parallels HDD bundle virtual disks (with automatic support of snapshots);
- In media manager: added recognition of local Parallels Desktop virtual machines and possibility to access their virtual disks (under macOS);
- Disk images of Parallels Desktop software: added support of snapshots;
- Fixed scan issue that caused incorrect file system sub-trees reconstruction on Linux/Unix file systems (EXT, XFS etc.).
version 10.5
18.03.2024
What's new in version 10.5:
- Added ZFS pool builder GUI:
- Added GUI to view/edit ZFS pool configuration, including Vdevs, RAID-Z level and members etc.;
- Possibility to assign components manually (after metadata damage) and force placeholders on place of missing components;
- Added 'New ZFS pool' function under 'RAID' menu to build a pool manually;
- 'View/Edit RAID' function for ZFS pool RAIDs is replaced with this tool to view/re-configure automatically assembled pools;
- Added support of Drobo short-form metadata of latest models;
- In Drobo assistant tool: added possibility to specify data block metadata size (to support older models/firmware);
- In disk imager:
- Added option to track disk by serial number after its reconnection at different device path;
- When resuming saving image to an existing SDLSP or VHDX file, software now verifies stored serial number to match with the source;
- ZFS file system access:
- Fixed an issue with 'missing' support of Big-Endian file system (SPARC);
- Fixed an issue with path navigation when multiple datasets enclosed to each other;
- In ZFS scan procedure: fixed an issue with detection of Big-Endian ZFS (SPARC);
- In file size report: added possibility to switch between long (full) numbers and short form in KB/MB/GB/TB;
- ExFAT scan: addeed support of 'padding' directory records;
- NTFS:fixed issue with support of big files when DATA attribute is moved to ATTR_LIST but still has duplication of 'DATA tail' in main MFT record.
version 10.4
16.02.2024
What's new in version 10.4:
- Disk imager: added option to save 'Host Specific' ATA log pages to SDLSP or directly to SATA physical disk clones;
- On-demand imaging:
- When target image file supports writing of ATA log pages, they are cloned automatically on first use;
- Added a tool for explicit imaging of ATA log pages to the target;
- Reworked 'Drives/Bridges security' tool to support ATA log pages from images or 'on-demand imaging tasks';
- Added double-click decryption of disks from WD MyBook with JMS561 bridge chip;
- Also added automatic recognition of Span/Stripe multi-disk RAID configurations on decrypted storages;
- LUKS decryption: extended allowed password length to 8K symbols, added support of null-symbols in keys/passwords;
- Fixed crash bug with in the disk imager working in ATA-mode;
- In SDLSP file format: added possibility to store 'Host Specific' ATA log pages;
- Added indication of encryption on disks from WD MyBook (DUO) with JMS561 bridge;
- Fixed issue with support of sparse files created with EXT2/3-style inodes on EXT file system;
- UFS file system: fixed a couple of bugs with processing of directory scan (after 'sparse' deletion).
version 10.3
11.01.2024
What's new in version 10.3:
- Added support of couple of 'alternative' key block formats for WD MyBook DUO (under 'Drives/bridges' security tool);
- Added possibility to search for lost/damaged LVM configurations without physical volume configuration by defining a PV without known ID;
- 'Filter file system' function now uses updated UI design with different classes of properties on different tabs;
- In the 'Dynamic HTML report': fixed issue with 'Save CSV report' function and changed CSV separator to 'coma' symbol;
- In the reporting function itself: added customization of separator for CSV reports (the default one is now 'coma');
- Also fixed several UI and report format issues;
- Reworked 'Save with filter' GUI: different filters separated to 'tabs', target path was made editable;
- Also reworked 'folder exclusion' mask as a separate setting;
- Added indication of ZFS pool component properties (vdev, RAID configuration, RAID-Z member, pool ID etc.);
- New filter UI design is also applied to reporting function;
- Access to NTFS volumes: Added support of Windows Overlay Filter (WOF) compression on files (both XPRESS and LZX);
- NTFS file system scan:
- Added search and processing of WOF-compressed files in scan result;
- Removed duplicate symbolic links;
- Corrected algorithm of directory structure recovery for 'lost' files;
- ExFAT file system scan: added possibility to recover items from partially wiped folders;
- In RAW recovery: added possibility to assemble SONY cam video streams with reverse header/data order.
version 10.2
04.12.2023
What's new in version 10.2:
- Virtual sector size transformation: added support of conversion of 4160- and 4608-byte blocks to 4096 bytes;
- Plain (flat) disk images now have native support of extended sector sizes (defined via the 'Virtual sector size transformation' tool);
- For QNAP NAS: added support of LUKS decryption using backup key files (via 'Media Manager' GUI);
- 'Open device (advanced)' function now has setting for maximum IO block size (to support limitations of some adaptors);
- In disk imager (ATA mode) - fixed issues with read errors caused by mis-aligned buffer;
- SDLSP format now has native support of extended sector sizes (such as 520, 528, 4160 etc.);
- Saving images from SDLSP and plain files with extended sector size enable automatic conversion to standard sector size;
- In 'Media Manager': added support of TerraMaster NAS (shared folders, iSCSI, etc.);
- XFS file system: added support of 'object type in directory entry' extended feature for XFS metadata version 2;
- UFS file system: added support of sparse files;
- Increased software stack size to support much larger depth of directories nesting;
- In Explorer, introduced additional 'yellow' state for files found with 'raw recovery'.
version 10.1
03.11.2023
What's new in version 10.1:
- Added support of RAID0+1 configurations of HP SmartArray controllers (version 1 metadata);
- Added support of RAID0 configurations on RAID components of different sizes (dynamic adjustment of rotation);
- Added support of iSCSI file storages on ASUSTOR NAS (format of index+data, via Media Manager);
- In LUKS decrypt: added support of 'Base64 decode' transform to accept 'rkey' binary passwords of Synology NAS;
- Added support of WD MyCloud backup keys for storage decryption;
- In file viewer: added 'quick preview' for disk images and virtual disks of common formats and with most used file systems;
- In Media Manager:
- Added support of ASUSTOR NAS devices (shares, snapshots, iSCSI target files, encrypted shared folders);
- Added support of WD MyCloud NAS (OS 5: PRO, EX2 Ultra etc.) storages;
- Added support of legacy WD MyCloud Home series storages;
- For MyCloud Home storages, added proper indication of user name for 'auth' container folders;
- Fixed bug with support of GPT on Synology NAS;
- Reworked ReFS file system support module:
- Replaced 'mapping of file segments' with 'IO virtualization' to support segmentation and double indirection (optional, ReFS 3.9 and later);
- In 'access mode': added experimental support of ZSTD and LZ4 file compressions;
- In both 'access mode' and 'scan result': added support of 'redirected' file metadata (this fixes displaying of some files as 'folders');
- Removed imaging optimization for AVHDX/SDLSP files with enabled 'base' files (which are used as a 'delta').
version 10.0
10.10.2023
What's new in version 10.0:
- Archive viewer:
- Added support of MSZIP decompression schema;
- Added partial support of CAB file format;
- Fixed bug with support of LUKS2 decryption;
- Added support of decryption of Synology full volume encryption;
- Reworked design of all static HTML reports;
- Reworked menu structure for disk imaging tools;
- Added 'media manager' function:
- Optional detection of supported connected 'complicated' media devices (dedicated UI section for recognized media devices);
- Automatic assembly of mdadm RAID and LVM;
- Assisted (automatic) access to shared folders, iSCSI volumes, snapshots etc.;
- Automatic decryption of supported encrypted folders and containers;
- Support of QNAP (QTS 4.3 to 5.1), Synology (DSM 6.2 to 7.1) and Apple AirPort storages.
- Optional 'dark theme' in user interface:
- Automatic recognition of the dark/light theme of the system under Windows and macOS;
- Added the ability to independently configure the color theme of the program;
- Object properties dialog now includes explanation to custom colors of objects in UI;
- Added new scan type: 'Only the current file system' - to increase 'completion' speed and reduce memory usage;
- Fixed issue with proper recognition of DDF1 RAID10 configurations on some controllers;
- Fixed several quality-related issues in raw recovery.
version 9.18
27.07.2023
What's new in version 9.18:
- Added support of 'data entropy' map:
- In disk imager, added possibility to save 'data entropy' map during imaging (low and high resolution);
- Added option for visualization of entropy map during imaging (with synchronization to imaging and to map of defects);
- Added possibility to visualize saved 'data entropy' map via 'Enable a block status map' tool;
- In map visualization GUI:
- Added possibility to change dynamically the size of grid cells;
- Added support of statistics on 'data entropy' map;
- In RAID builder:
- In context menu of selected set, added 'To a new RAID' tool to create a RAID on a subset;
- Added also comparison of selected items via 'Compare storages' context menu option;
- Added support of multi-volume configurations of very old Drobo DAS devices;
- In disk imager:
- Changed two-pass imaging to multi-pass imaging by adding optional one or two pre-imaging stages (with no retries on defects);
- Added optional pre-imaging stage 0 - to quickly skips slow and damaged areas for fast imaging of 'healthy' areas;
- Added one more pre-imaging stage to run on slow areas and to skip areas with defects (postpone them to the 'normal' stage);
- Added possibility to override number of retries and read timeout for the final imaging stage;
- Built-in viewer now supports displaying the contents of certain archive file formats:
- Added support of Zip, TAR, GZip and BZip2 archive container formats (including .tar.gz, .tar.bz2);
- Added content decompression for Deflate, Deflate64, BZip2, LZX, LZMS, LZMA, MS XPress and plain content streams;
- Added limited support of Windows IMage (WIM) file format (only individual files in current format);
- Support of preview of contained files;
- In 'file search' result: added missing color and file status indication;
- Added displaying of the number of files in scan result folders;
- Disabled the indication of the folder metadata size (to avoid confusion with the size of contained files);
- Added possibility to re-enable this function in the software settings;
- Fixed issue displaying color progressive (one scan per component) JPEG images as greyscale;
- Reworked support of ISO9660 file system.
version 9.17
20.06.2023
What's new in version 9.17:
- Added basic function of volume address translation to a file system file/folder and the offset inside;
- In RAID Builder: added tool to build 'a copy of RAID' - it allows to build several different configurations from the same source;
- Added support of older 3Ware RAID metadata format for automatic RAID construction;
- Added support of message activation in file copying message log:
- Activation of file-related event now opens container folder and selects the associated file;
- When events are automatically redirected to a file (due to log overflow), activation of redirection event record will open the log file;
- In disk imager:
- Changed log format for better compatibility to forensic imaging (also included information about forensic bridge, imaging status etc.);
- Better handling and indication of image write errors;
- SMART tool:
- Refresh operation is made asynchronous to prevent UI from freezing on long updates;
- Proper indication of SCSI 'not ready' status (including running FORMAT UNIT command);
- Reworked file copying with replacement of 'unsafe symbols' (such as '/', '?' etc.):
- Under Windows: unsupported symbols on a source file system are changed to special Unicode symbols (macOS-style) on a target;
- Under Linux: all 'unsafe symbols', except '/' are now allowed;
- Under macOS: all 'unsafe symbols', except '/' and ':' are now allowed;
- When source file system contains macOS Unicode replacement symbols, they are changed to 'original' ones in the user interface;
- Minor fix to ReFS3 file system (to support a variation of metadata format);
- Fixed bug with EFS-encrypted files, recovered with full-disk scan stage;
- Fixed bug scanning volumes with compressed files on NTFS;
- Fixed bug processing extended attributes on XFS file system;
- Legacy HFS file system: now displayed and preserved file creation/modification dates.
version 9.16
15.05.2023
What's new in version 9.16:
- In disk imaging task (on demand imaging):
- All supported data protection/write-blocker adaptors are now 'recommended' type of source (storage protection from activity of running OS);
- Fixed several bugs (retries, 'source loss' condition etc.);
- Changed default configuration for Tier1 imaging (no extra retries, enabled two-pass imaging);
- Added sharing of 'file type check' information from scan result to filtered scan result;
- Added possibility to enable log file (journal) scan for quick scan of NTFS file system (default is 'off');
- EXT3/4 (In 'quick' scan/indexing): processing of journal is now made optional (default is 'off');
- Intel Optane: reworked cache mapping algorithm and added support of linear (spanned) cache zone;
- RAID50/60 support: Added reverse address translation for RAID builder GUI;
- iSCSI target (server):
- Fixed compatibility issue with open-iscsi client (iscsiadm);
- Added proper reproduction of defect blocks via iSCSI (verified with default Windows initiator and Linux open-iscsi);
- Drobo BeyondRAID: speed-up of general read/scan operations (especially for non-allocated storage space);
- Added support of hardware RAID on JMicron chips (including QNAP TR extension boxes);
- Added recognition/support of certain WiebeTech (CRU) and Tableau (Opentext) data protection bridges/adaptors;
- In the general disk imager (image at once):
- Speed optimization for EWF (E01) image file creation;
- Speed optimization for SDLSP format (especially on a LAN target);
- EXT3/4 file systems:
- Faster (optimized) processing of file system journal - by caching it to memory;
- Faster 'open' for existing big EXT3-4 volumes;
- Fixed issue with support of SATA M.2 SSD via Realtek USB-to-NVMe bridge chip;
- Added support of drives identification and SMART access on IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connection;
- In embedded viewer:
- Added several unsupported camera raw formats (and fixed couple of related bugs);
- Significantly reduced number of access attempts to storage when defect block is detected.
version 9.15
14.04.2023
What's new in version 9.15:
- In the 'Open thin-provisioned volume' tool:
- Added a function to open a volume in case of partial metadata damage ('ignore errors' mode);
- Added support of 'thick' volumes (with pre-allocated space);
- In the general storage decryption dialog: added support of constant initialization vector;
- Some optimizations of GUI for default (double-click) actions (to decrypt encrypted storages etc.);
- Some optimizations of 'Drives/Bridges security' tool (to speed-up detection, get rid of unnecessary volume unmounts etc.);
- RAID5 and RAID6: added an option to generate virtual defect blocks explicitly instead of using pattern fill (to sort good/bad files basing on defects);
- RAID builder GUI:
- Added support of RAID50 and RAID60 as separate RAID types;
- Pattern display grid is also adopted to RAID50 / RAID60;
- Added a configuration parameter for virtual reproduction of defect blocks on over-degraded areas (RAID levels 5, 6, 50 and 60);
- Added stripe of size 512 bytes to the stripe size selection list;
- Drobo RAID: added bitmap support for cache, fixed bug with adaptive RAID reconstruction;
- Added support of direct access to SMART/identification of NVMe storages on USB adaptors with Realtek, Asmedia and JMicron bridge chips;
- Under Linux: added support of direct access to NVMe SMART/identification information;
- In SMART monitor:
- NVMe: added indication of maximum (warning) temperature and current TBW (terabytes written) basing on NVMe SMART;
- SAS: added displaying of G-list size for SSD; also added TBW estimation (both SSD and HDD), basing on Log Page 02h information (WRITE log);
- SATA SSD: added displaying of TBW estimation using F9h SMART attribute, when available;
- Under Windows: added system (OS) file cache size to software settings - to control system memory use when working with image files;
- Few corrections to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure (to support several previously unsupported metadata damages);
- Added support of several recent digital cameras (RAW formats) to embedded viewer.
version 9.14
07.03.2023
What's new in version 9.14:
- All file reports have been reworked to support splitting into files of roughly a fixed, configured size;
- Dynamic HTML report:
- Added 'recalculate folders capacity' sub-report type (for reports, saved from file system with no scan);
- Fixed numeric overflow bug in object IDs;
- Fixed issue with column sort function in search result;
- Added experimental support of Drobo Cache - for attempts to recover damaged blocks from cache;
- VMware Workstation - encrypted VMDK files:
- Added decryption of split-VMDK files (they have to be opened from encrypted VMDK metadata file);
- Added support of encrypted delta-files (including split) - setting up as a delta, indication of the parent file hint;
- Added support of custom LaCie/WD AnyRAID LUKS encryption:
- Added password transform function (when possible to apply);
- Initialization vector 'cbc-plain:sha1' is considered as 'cbc-plain' (32bit);
- Microsoft Data Deduplication:
- NTFS access: added support of non-deduplicated modification of deduplicated files via copy-on-write bitmaps;
- ReFS access: modified procedure for handling deduplicated files and added support of non-deduplicated modifications on them;
- File open procedure: is now much optimized for speed (by reducing the number of verifications);
- In scan: optimization for completion speed, fixed bug with 'hotspots' interference ('pending modifications' not yet supported);
- LUKS2 decryption: fixed issue with decryption of volumes with 4K sector size;
- Saving disk image files to E01 (EWF) format:
- Fixed bug with sudden appearance of extra blocks at the end of file;
- Added special warning message about 'correct completion' of disk image (padding with zeros);
- Added progress indication for file finalization (when imaging is aborted) with ability to abort correct completion;
- HFS+ scan: better reconstruction of lost folder names from journal;
- ExFAT scan: removed duplicate 'green'/'yellow' file systems in result;
version 9.13
30.01.2023
What's new in version 9.13:
- In sector state map tab UI:
- Added standard control toolbar;
- Added function of saving map information to a file in UFS Explorer SDMF format (any source format);
- Added option of saving map in inverted state;
- Added 'Manage all tasks' dialog to set up automatic copying from more than one file at once;
- Added 'set caching' function in RAID builder dialog (including 'set to all');
- Added special tool for mass setting of saving processed data from multiple storages;
- For Dynamic HTML report now added support of custom HTM-templates (for report 'branding'/'customization'):
- Added sample templates to installation for demonstration of dynamic report customization;
- Added 'include folders' flag to file search function;
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added support of 'type 6' virtual disk descriptor records;
- Fixed issue with support of 'type chunk' records (format version 3 and above);
- Fixed issue with resumption of 'scan status' (ssdb) of RAID-Z scan;
- Added settings for handling map-defined virtual defects;
- When loaded associated map of defects for disk image, default 'defect' action is now 'virtually reproduce defects';
- BitLocker properties (Recovery key) now has link to open Microsoft Cloud storage of recovery keys;
- XFS file system scan: fixed couple of issues with save/resume scan and deleted file names recovery;
- BtrFS scan:
- Fixed issue with assembly of multi-component file system;
- Better recovery of virtual address space when virtual address space tree is lost;
- Fixed detection of LDM on GPT meta partition at long offset.
version 9.12
07.12.2022
What's new in version 9.12:
- TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt:
- Added support of 'chained' encryptions (such as AES over TwoFish etc.);
- Added support of VeraCrypt PIM (non-system volumes);
- Reworked dynamic HTML report to different data model: this allows to open it much faster and to support hard links;
- In the 'Open thin-provisioned LVM volume' tool:
- Opening of volumes with damaged metadata is now made optional (it is possible to cancel it after notification about an error);
- Added the dialog window to display error location (with possibility to copy the offset) and with the option to open error location in hexadecimal viewer;
- Sub-partitions or encryption on the start of LVM data volume now don't mask it from detection by this tool;
- Activation of a LUKS-encrypted partition now activates the decryption procedure;
- Default 'activate' action for a BitLocker partition is now changed to 'decrypt' with automatic opening of the decrypted partition (on success);
- List of file copying events is now limited to prevent uncontrolled memory consumption:
- Added configuration for maximum number of log records;
- In case of log overflow, added configuration how to handle it (stop logging, remove old items, log to a file);
- Added BitLocker properties indication for an incompletely decrypted BitLocker;
- In the scan finalization GUI now added more detailed indication of currently running operations, including number of found files;
- Added support of empty folders in scan results (to recover folder structures without files);
- NTFS file system scan:
- Added support of recovery of empty files, including files with only named data streams;
- Added procedure of restoration of lost file placeholders when there is no file descriptor (only a reference from a directory index);
- EXT3/4 file systems:
- Added support of empty folders and files of zero size in scan result;
- Fixed few issues with processing of journal and file names recovery;
- In disk imager: added support of import/export for lists of imaging ('include'/'exclude') fragments.
version 9.11
25.10.2022
What's new in version 9.11:
- Added possibility to import existing (completed or 'in progress') images to 'imaging tasks' of UFS Explorer;
- Minor re-arrangements to 'imaging task' UI;
- In the Manager of Storage Spaces: the display of the list of participating disks has been added (from loaded metadata);
- Tool for applying 'delta' was modified to:
- Exclude storages with capacities that don't match to delta file;
- Select the last component with the matching ID (if available);
- Remove this option from context menu of base (not differencing) VHDX;
- In disk imager:
- Target write speed (in MB/sec) is replaced with more informative indication (Slow/Normal/Good), relative to the overall copying process;
- Replaced window for 'disk lost' notification with automatic 'yes' response to 'retry' request after 60 seconds of inactivity;
- Fixed bug in handling of SDMF map tail;
- In LVM manager: when there is a problem opening thin LVM volume, added detailed error message with indication of problem on the metadata area;
- Few fixes and minor update to 'search partitions' dialog;
- Added indication of encryption information for APFS encrypted volumes and LUKS;
- This indicator now also can be used to start decryption dialog;
- Storage ID for VHD and VHDX now contains their GUID value (Write GUID for VHDX);
- Added indication of parent virtual disk for delta-file of VMDK, AVHD and AVHDX formats:
- All formats include indication of the 'parent path' hint;
- Microsoft AHDX and AVHDX files also indicate GUID of parent virtual disk.
version 9.10
21.09.2022
What's new in version 9.10:
- Added a tool to open Microsoft Storage Space volumes manually (to select metadata source and volume);
- Assembled Storage Space volumes now provide sector map information (allocation and defects, if available);
- Reworked RAID1E module: added support of multiple missing drives and optimized data access procedure;
- Rework to Microsoft Storage Spaces module:
- Reworked procedure of automatic assembly of volumes to use only the latest version of metadata;
- Automatic assembly of volumes is now made optional (it can be disabled in the settings);
- Scan result (VRFS) now also can be saved from context menu of the root folder of a scan result;
- Added support of map files (log files) created by GNU ddrescue;
- Using of maps of defect blocks:
- Support of maps after storage transformation/remapping (e.g. for BitLocker encrypted volumes);
- Indication of defects on assembled RAID1E when pair of components missing or contain map of defects;
- Software-generated defects now do not interrupt quickly the partition detection procedure;
- Update to ReFS3 scan: fixed a couple of bugs in the scan completion procedure;
- Update to FAT32 scan: better file system recovery when superblocks are lost AND FAT tables are damaged;
- Simplification to disk imager: single 'location' for metadata and automatic creation of log/map files;
- BitLocker decryption now supports multiple recovery keys (when available) for the same volume;
- For BitLocker-encrypted volumes, partition properties panel now displays properties of encryption.
version 9.9
11.07.2022
What's new in version 9.9:
- Added 'activity monitor' tool to display the activity of the software instance with disks;
- iSCSI support:
- Initiator (client) now doesn't require multi-host/cluster mode and works on single connection;
- The Target (server): fixed several network communication issues;
- Microsoft Storage Pools (Storage Spaces):
- Added support of 'Parity of mirrors' internal configurations;
- Added support of 'Three-way mirror' configurations (when the number of components is a multiple of three);
- Basic support of so-called 'dual parity' on Windows Server 2012R2 (also with adaptive reconstruction with single missing);
- Fixed bug with 'Two-way mirror' (in span, not rotation mode), created on Windows Server 2016 and later;
- When image file has associated map of defects, added automatic recognition of presence of that map:
- Software asks to load associated 'Attr.map' for 'TaskImage.bin' when it is present in the same folder;
- Added support of saving of map association to image files in VHDX format and software asks to load the map if the file is found;
- Software now uses 'storage with map' icon for 'defects recognition' and SDLSP with enabled internal map of block states;
- Linux software version:
- Addes support of indication of OwnerID/GroupID for Btrfs, EXT2-4, UFS1-2, XFS and ZFS;
- OwnerID/GroupID is also preserved for scan results of these file systems;
- OwnerID/GroupID can also be preserved when data is copied (when copying of 'standard' attributes is enabled);
- Fixed one scenario of GUI-related crash bug;
- Fixed few bugs related to XFS file system scan;
- Updated HFS+ scan procedure to support file system recovery when main metadata locations are wiped;
- Updated Btrfs file system scan procedure for finding fragments of very fragmented deleted files;
- Fixed issues with support of text LVM configurations created by CentOS 8.
version 9.8
10.06.2022
What's new in version 9.8:
- Added tool and tab for displaying of a map of block states (defects) applied to a storage;
- Map of block states is now integrated with Explorer and with the 'Go to content'/'Go to descriptor' tools;
- Added 'View map of file' function (displays the imaging status of a specific file);
- Information about defect blocks, recognized by a pattern now can be saved (cached) to a map file;
- Loading of maps of sector states (defective sectors):
- For maps in the ACE Lab format, added automatic section of sector size using the map size to drive size ratio;
- When the ACE Lab RAW map format is selected, software now also recognizes the range-based format (to avoid mistakes);
- For drives with DDI metadata: added an option to enable an external map of defective blocks;
- Block state information is now also passed to 'sub-range', 'transformed' and RAID0/RAID1/JBOD storages;
- Fixed bug with scan of chunks on VMFS6;
- SDLSP and VHDX image file formats now preserve information about the source storage (name and ID);
- Date/time entry fields replaced with the date/time selection dialog;
- In hex viewer, the 'hex search' function:
- Added a function to pause it to release the source storage for other operations;
- When stopped, the last searched position is stored as 'Next location' to allow a jump to it;
- NTFS file system: fixed issue with support of very fragmented files when the FileName attribute is outside of the main MFT entry;
- Fixed bugs with creation of big VHDX files (over 4TB);
- General modifications of maps of block states/defects:
- Native 'sdmf' map format is changed to the "sparse" format for better speed and lower storage usage;
- Reworked internal functions of the disk imager tool to support the sparse format;
- Information about the source storage is now saved to a map and is displayed when the map is loaded;
- SDLSP and VHDX image file formats now preserve information about the source storage (name and ID).
version 9.7
12.05.2022
What's new in version 9.7:
- Linux LVM recovery module:
- Added 'address translation' of found text configurations to the base storage;
- Found text configuration now can be displayed with embedded viewer;
- Added basic support of LVM thin-provisioned volumes (Linux only) via 'Find LVM' tool;
- In Disk imager:
- Added option to shut down the source after completion (when power control is available);
- 'Entry name' field for EnCase format now can be customized (by default is the same as file name);
- Reworked operations with defect maps:
- Updated 'map loader' GUI (more obvious configuration, added map preview function);
- Software now enables file-based maps (when possible) to speed up loading and reduce memory usage;
- New type of storage object with applied map now supports indication of imaged/defect/free spaces;
- Fixed some reported bugs/issues:
- In hex viewer: incorrect base position for 'big block search', loss of colorer function for cached data;
- File system module: silent crash bug with bad F2FS;
- Handling of soft-defect blocks: extending of file map to whole block in scan result;
- LUKS decryption: using of SHA512 for hash function caused problems with decryption;
- Some minor GUI-related issues (under Windows OS).
version 9.6
11.04.2022
What's new in version 9.6:
- Updated function of opening LVM thin-provisioned volumes:
- Added interface to choose from volumes, defined in text configuration;
- Support of QNAP thin volumes implemented via Tier/Thin technology (tiering is not supported);
- Support of segmentation for thin-provisioned volumes;
- Opened volume now contains proper LVM ID, name and Unix-path;
- Added support of WD Apollo 'cloud storage';
- Added activity monitor for DeepSpar USB Stabilizer/Guardonix;
- USB Stabilizer/Guardonix configuration: added option for 'Auto-repower by UFS Explorer';
- Disk imaging with DeepSpar USB Stabilizer:
- Added explicit configuration of re-power options for read timeout and read errors;
- Error recovery after 'storage loss' now includes re-power cycle;
- General disk imaging:
- Fixed issue with handling error of creation of plain disk image file;
- Fixed support of 4GB image chunk size on FAT32 target file system;
- Restoration of file/folder attributes (hidden flag, permissions etc.) was made optional;
- Mac software version now comes with native Apple Silicon CPU support and requires macOS 10.15 or later.
version 9.5
15.02.2022
What's new in version 9.5:
- Action for activation of partitions with no file system now can be configured;
- Disk Imager:
- Rework (optimization) of configuration GUI;
- Fixed issue with attempting 'multi-sector retries' on defect blocks with 'system' read procedure;
- Added setting of file system 'read policy' for storages with defect blocks:
- Enabled support of 'read policies' for FAT, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, ReFS, Ext, XFS, F2FS file systems;
- Added Export/Import function for user-defined raw recovery file types:
- Selective export to own XML-based file format for backup or selective restore on different PC;
- Partial support of importing user-defined rules in some third-party XML formats;
- Optimized 'Refresh' procedure; scan of logical drives is now made optional (by default it is 'on');
- DeepSpar USB Stabilizer/Guardonix:
- Added recognition of devices with no media or when it is not powered on;
- Added power control and support of driver configuration;
- ExFAT scan: added processing of CheckDisk .CHK files (when possible), fixed few more issues;
- Raw recovery scan: found and fixed 'scan stuck' issue;
- Update to S.M.A.R.T monitoring tool: added 'SSD life' indication and support of SCSI Log Sense;
- Added indication of storage device type and rotation speed for HDD.
version 9.4
17.01.2022
What's new in version 9.4:
- Added experimental support of QNAP SSD write-cache;
- Implemented integrated management of raw recovery rules:
- Reworked storage schema for custom raw recovery rules;
- Added GUI that shows full list of custom and built-in raw recovery rules;
- Implemented simplified interface to create/view/edit user-defined rules;
- Built-in editor is set as priority source of custom rules for scan;
- Added support of BitLocker decryption using external keys from BEK-files (with no TPM);\
- Update to S.M.A.R.T monitoring/log pages reader tool:
- Reading of both GP log and S.M.A.R.T log (when possible);
- Fixed issue with indication of 'seek error count' when it includes seek statistics;
- Added automatic assembly of APFS Fusion drives;
- Added indication of encrypted APFS volumes and volume decryption states;
- ExFAT scan: fixed issue with recognition of previous cluster size after format;
- Implemented ZSTD compression and enabled its support for ZFS and Btrfs file systems;
- F2FS file system: added support of 'extra attributes' flag.
version 9.3
14.12.2021
What's new in version 9.3:
- Added experimental support of Synology SSD write-cache:
- Recognition and indication of SSD cache partitions;
- Applying latest cached data from SSD 'as a delta' to the 'base' volume;
- Added decryption of drives from WD MyBook with JMS561 bridge chip;
- Fixed several issues with opening files, deduplicated using Microsoft Data Deduplication;
- Under Linux, added 'unlock' function for WD drives, locked with WD Security;
- File status indication in Explorer is extended with 'zeroed' (bad) state;
- Source sector size is now preserved for image files, saved to VHDX and SDLSP formats;
- In Linux software version:
- Added proper identification of SCSI/SAT drives to support drive serial numbers etc.;
- Added support of SMART monitoring for SCSI/SAT-attached drives;
- Linux LVM2 logical volumes:
- Added indication of logical volume ID in partition properties;
- Fixed issue with recognition of 'long' (64K) binary metadata;
- Fixed issue assembling multi-segment logical volumes on 'fake' (single-component) mdadm RAID;
- For manually defined partitions added recognition of known metadata at defined location;
- Reworked FAT/FAT32 quick scan/indexing procedure for better support of damaged folders;
- In embedded file viewer:
- Added support of HEIC/HEIF photo format (Canon R5/R6, Apple products etc.);
- Added decoding of Fujifilm 14bit 'packed' RAF format (models X-A3, X-A7 etc.);
- Added decompression of Fujifilm compressed RAF format (models X-T2, X-T3, X-E3, X-H1 etc.);
- Defined configurations for many other raw photo formats.
version 9.2
17.11.2021
What's new in version 9.2:
- 'Transform sector size' tool is extended with options to switch between 512/1K/2K/4K sectors;
- Added decryption of encrypted VMware VMDK virtual disks (encrypted VMs for Windows 11 etc.);
- Added decryption of compressed Apple DMG disk images encrypted with version 2/'encrcdsa' format;
- Write support for VHDX virtual disks (file creation and modification);
- In 'Imaging Task' interface:
- Added VHDX as target file format option;
- Optimized target format selection UI;
- Added VHDX as target file format option for Disk Imager;
- 'File mask' operations ('search' etc.) now all support multiple values with semicolon as delimiter;
- Raw recovery and tool for re-assigning file extensions are extended with more types;
- Fujifilm RAW photos format (RAF):
- Added extraction of file size, camera 'model name' and 'date taken' in raw recovery;
- Fixed issue with file separation to 'preview' and 'tiff' when it is detected by content;
- MacOS HFS+ file system:
- Enhanced procedure of damaged file system reconstruction and deleted data recovery;
- Fixed issue with direct access to highly fragmented file system;
- Fixed several issues with Btrfs file system scan.
version 9.1
18.10.2021
What's new in version 9.1:
- Added Drive/Bridge Security tool:
- Decryption of WD drives encrypted with JMS538E, Inic-1607E, OXUF943SE and SW6316 USB bridges;
- Support of key block detection both on storage area and in SMART Log pages;
- Support of standard AES-256 ECB mode (also AES-128/256 ECB/CBC/XTS modes, depending of chip);
- Unlocking of password-locked WD drives (no need to install and run WD Security software);
- Emulation of defects by pattern recognition in 'read ahead' mode now uses cache (for speed);
- Support of macOS ".sparsebundle" disk image format (open as disk-on-disk storage);
- Microsoft Data Deduplication:
- Software now automatically asks to open and enable MSDDD when file system is opened;
- Fixed support of big (over 1GB) files deduplicated with Windows Server 2012/2012-R2;
- Fixed issue with opening files from relocated segments;
- Decryption of encrypted Apple DMG disk images (version 2/'encrcdsa' format);
- Fixed bug with data caching in hexadecimal editor;
- Recovery of lost address translation leafs in Btrfs scan (for correct deleted data recovery);
- FS with address translation (Btrfs) is now supported for 'status indication' in Explorer;
- File and Folder hardlinks deduplication is now made optional;
- Fixed few issues with disk imager (corrected number of retries, read block size etc.)
version 9.0
20.09.2021
What's new in version 9.0:
- Added tool for saving on-demand disk image files (imaging tasks):
- Support of imaging to flat, flat-sparse and sparse (SDLSP) disk image files;
- Support of imaging (clonning) to another disk;
- Using of built-in defect map for SDLSP and external defect map for other targets;
- Save/restore of task configuration (.uitask) files;
- Support of 'imager' interface and background (asynchronous) imaging;
- Task control panel with map of defects and with activity indication;
- Map of defects can be cleared in given region (all states or only defects);
- Detailed configuration of imaging parameters (two-pass imaging, timeouts etc.);
- Quick switch of pre-configugured and customizable imaging tiers;
- Added support of flat-sparse image files (set of chunks with missed fragments);
- Scan now has option to save status periodically (with predefined time period);
- Data saving now can be scheduled as number of steps in priority order:
- Added 'Create batch copying task'/'Add to copying task' tool to context menu;
- Task can be aborted with possibility of resumption from aborted step;
- Common task copying log with logging of task step events;
- Task manager dialog to re-order, remove or configure steps (enable filters etc.);
- Added 'Quick scan (index)' tool to context menu of valid ('green') file systems;
- When empty or damaged FS is activated, there is a choice to browse or to scan it;
- Activation of partition with no file system now activates 'scan' dialog;
- Changed format of SDLSP files to version 3;
- Added tool to re-assign file extensions basing on content (for CHK files etc.);
- Fixed bug in adaptive RAID5/RAID6 reconstruction;
- Folders in scan result now display contained objects capacity;
- Explorer now highlights lager files/folders in scan result with percent bar;
- Color differentiation of existing and scanned file systems in Explorer;
- Support of hard links on NTFS, APFS, HFS+, Ext, F2FS, Reiser, UFS and XFS;
- Added automatic deduplication of duplicate hard links:
- Hard link to file is restored as hard link on target storage;
- If target file system doesn't support hard links, software creates copy of file;
- Hardlinks to HFS+ folders are restored to special location and linked with target;
- Links to folders are established with hardlinks (on HFS+) or with symlinks;
- If target file system doesn't support links, software fails to process such folders.
- Added support of duplicate file/folder hard links in scan result;
- NTFS scan procedure now processes NTFS indexes and thus hard links;
- APFS direct access:
- File system state is now loaded using the latest generation of stored superblock;
- Added support of file system snapshots, including 'local' and 'backup' Time Machine;
- Loading of file set is postponed until it is first used (for performance reasons);
- APFS scan:
- Indexing of APFS optionally includes snapshots (enabled by default);
- Better structure recovery and finding of lost snapshots in full scan;
- Added support of symbolic links;
- HFS+ scan: added support of hardlinks (including Time Machine);
- Support of reading S.M.A.R.T Log pages of SATA drives;
- Added indication of file status (validity) information for scan results:
- Indication is enabled by default; it can be disabled via 'Explorer' settings;
- Verification if file start matches to data of known and valid type;
- If defects bitmap is available, optional check if file is imaged;
- Tool to enable/disable/configure file status indication in Explorer;
- Option to save 'only good files' when status indication is available and enabled;
- In Explorer, added ability to stop reading content of big folders;
- Preserving 'Hidden' and 'System' flags on copied files (Windows version);
- XFS access: fixed problem with mixed Intel/Standard short folder metadata;
- XFS scan: fixed few major bugs with structure recovery in full scan;
- NTFS access: fixed issue displaying of multiple hardlinks from the same folder;
- NTFS scan: added processing of mount points as 'folder' symbolic links;
- ReFS3 access:
- Mount points (junctions) are displayed as 'folder' symbolic links;
- In symbolic links, paths are changed to relative to support their 'export';
- Older ReFS (Windows Server 2012): fixed few bugs in scan procedure;
- ExFAT scan: support of 1MB clusters, fixed few issues;
- Fixed loading RAID/storage configurations when PhysicalDrive has no serial number;
- Fixed issue with long cancellation of quick scan and duplication of results;
- Fixed duplication of $LostFiles folder in scan result;
- Fixed problem with support of ATA S.M.A.R.T via DeepSpar USB Stabilizer.
version 8.17
14.06.2021
What's new in version 8.17:
- Added 'calculate hash' tool with support of hash verification for E01/Ex01;
- Added support of saving RAID configurations with 'decomposed' components;
- File system filtering now preserves structures created by "recycle.bin" recovery;
- Added option to copy storages list from RAID Builder to Parity Calculator;
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added support of double-parity volumes (so far, with only one missing disk);
- Support of metadata version 3;
- Fixed issue with support of Adaptec 1430SA DDF2 metadata;
- Fixed some compatibility issues of saved E01 files (compression, rounding);
- Storage properties tab now includes hashes for E01/Ex01 format;
- Disk Imager log is extended with more details (source/target properties etc.);
- Fixed few issues with processing of Windows Dynamic Disks (NT LDM);
- In 'advanced' copying, added filter to copy normal, deleted or both states;
- ReFS support is extended with new version found on Windows Server 2022 preview;
- Fixed several bugs (including crash bugs).
version 8.16
14.05.2021
What's new in version 8.16:
- Added support of Intel IMSM NV Cache (SRT, Optane Memory) technology;
- Added experimental 'read' support of AFF4 image files format;
- DDF RAID50/RAID60: fixed pattern for LSI/Intel, added support for Adaptec (5805);
- Support of DDF1.2 metadata for Marvell 88SE92xx;
- Support of Silicon Image SATA-RAID vendor-specific metadata;
- Added logging of user actions for storage scan;
- Added read support of 'Mirage', 'Tango'/'G2Fdb' and 'Rsfs' CCTV file systems;
- Added support of symbolic links in scan result for NTFS, EXT3/4 and XFS;
- Detection and indication of DeepSpar USB Stabilizer in software GUI;
- Added option to not save empty (zeroed) sectors in Disk Imager;
- Disk imaging via DeepSpar USB Stabilizer:
- Added special error recovery procedure to support device power management;
- Changed default imaging procedure to 'system' to wait for device response;
- Added additional logging of user actions for file copying.
version 8.15
22.04.2021
What's new in version 8.15:
- Added support of HP SmartArray, DDF and ARECA RAID metadata formats;
- Support of RAID6 on 3 drives as this configuration is allowed on some controllers;
- Added separate Adaptec RAID5EE configuration to RAID builder;
- When RAID Builder tab is active and Parallel Search or Data Comparison is opened:
- Added option to copy current list of storages from RAID builder to the tool;
- Synchronization includes both list of 'valid' storages and hex viewer position;
- Enabled possibility to open multiple 'New RAID' tabs;
- Fixed bug decrypting APFS FusionDrive storages;
- Added indication of component's 'RAID properties' on storage properties sheet;
- ReFS: Support of symbolic links;
- Added option to save image files to EnCase E01 format;
- Added 'read' support of common CCTV file systems;
- Added quick detection of lost partitions at 'standard' offsets;
- Support of storages with physical sector size 1 and 2 KB.
version 8.14
22.03.2021
What's new in version 8.14:
- Added new 'RAID Decomposition' tool ('Reverse RAID'):
- Supports virtual decomposition of any source storage;
- Supports opening of any produced virtual components;
- Decomposition of RAID0 with custom stripe size;
- Decomposition of RAID1E ('near' or 'interlaced') with custom stripe size;
- Decomposition of RAID5: custom stripe size, parity delay and rotation;
- Decomposition of RAID6: custom stripe size, parity delay, rotation and RS-math;
- Open chunks as span: added option to sort images by numeric file name extension;
- LVM/thin: added recognition of sector/byte size of LVM tree metadata chunks;
- Support of automatic reconstruction of mdadm RAID10/near layout;
- Fixed crash bug when big span (over 1024 components) is opened in RAID builder;
- Drobo BeyondRAID: added manual volume definition when InfoTable is lost or damaged;
- Disk imager: added optional splitting of image to chunks of fixed size;
- Added displaying of GPT and CoreStorage partition labels;
- Added support of named (extended) attributes on Btrfs file systems;
- Added function to mark/unmark multiple objects in Explorer (using context menu);
- Added optional function of saving symbolic links (disabled by default);
- Support opening split DD (raw) image files with FTK Imager naming convention.
version 8.13
02.03.2021
What's new in version 8.13:
- Added function of access to network disks via built-in iSCSI client:
- Full support of discovery and communication with UFS Explorer iSCSI Targets;
- Support of third-party SAN/iSCSI targets (require multi-host/cluster support);
- Authentication, multi-LUN targets and single-connection mode are not supported;
- iSCSI Target server: added function to attach/detach local disk (under Windows);
- WD MyCloud storages:
- Added indication of MyCloud volumes;
- Added support of newer metadata format (version 156);
- Type of file system transformation is set for them as 'MyCloud' by default;
- Added indication of sector/cluster number on hexadecimal viewer;
- Added separate field for copyable sector indicator to hex data inspector;
- Fixed bug reading partially encrypted B-tree on APFS;
- APFS: fixed B-tree reconstruction bug in scan procedure;
- HFS+: fixed bugs reading of damaged B-tree;
- XFS: fixed bug reading named attributes;
- ZFS: fixed bug with recognition of lost simple volume partitions during scan;
version 8.12
04.02.2021
What's new in version 8.12:
- Updated RAID builder dialog:
- Added support of selecting multiple components for 'bulk operations';
- Support of 'Move', 'Remove', 'Edit size' and 'Revert size' via 'bulk operations';
- ReFS3: fixed several compatibility issues (support of resident and named pointers);
- Added 'metadata objects filtering' functions to file copying procedure:
- Pre-defined types of metadata files and folders can be optionally skipped;
- Procedure can be enabled, disabled and configured via software 'Settings';
- 'Save selection (advanced)' function has option to override default settings;
- Pre-defined metadata for NTFS system files, Synology folders, Apple resources;
- File saving conflict (duplicate file action):
- In default pop-up window added option to abort copying;
- Added pre-configured setting to overwrite file 'if new file is modified later';
- NTFS: support of more scenarios for file information recovery from LogFile;
- FAT16: fixed problem with recognition of root folder in non-indexed full scan;
- ExFAT file system scan:
- Processing of tails of overwritten folders (in full and quick (indexing) scans);
- Result is filtered to remove junk objects that may appear from damaged folders;
- Fixed bug with file system structure recovery when intermediate folders are lost;
- Fixed read/quick scan of HFS+ with 'overflowed' fragmentation of Catalog File;
- Software version for macOS:
- Adopted and optimized GUI to specifics of Big Sur (macOS 11);
- Software optimization for better translation to ARM64 (Apple M1) via Rosetta.
version 8.11
15.01.2021
What's new in version 8.11:
- Added iSCSI Target Server for mounting storages to operating system:
- Setting up of any storages or partitions as iSCSI targets (from context menu);
- Read-only iSCSI access locally or over LAN (no authentication);
- Support of Microsoft iSCSI Initiator (Windows), open-iscsi (Linux), globalSAN (Mac);
- Trial limitation of target size is set to 5368709119 sectors (2.5TB);
- Btrfs: fixed issue with assembly of multi-device volumes for direct access;
- ReFS3 file system:
- Fixed problem with incorrect behavior of pause->preview->resume scan sequence;
- Updated 'read' and 'scan' modules to support the latest file system version;
- Handling of disks with reported non-standard big sector sizes (4160, 4176 etc.);
- Extended file system object attributes (custom named properties):
- Reworked procedure of restoring attributes when copying data (Windows, Linux, Mac);
- Added function of listing attributes and displaying of their content in Explorer;
- Reworked support of Apple attributes for HFS+ and APFS file systems;
- Changed format of SSDB and VRFS files to support associated attributes (out of tree);
- Reworked scan procedures of HFS+/APFS to store attributes in new format;
- Added support of NTFS alternative data streams as 'named attributes';
- Added support of Linux xattrs on Ext2-Ext4 and XFS file systems;
- XFS file system: added support of multi-block directory clusters;
- ZFS file syztem:
- Added support of file system block sizes up to 1MB (for OpenZFS);
- Added support of undelete after 'long deletion' of big files (multi-transaction).
version 8.10
21.12.2020
What's new in version 8.10:
- Added support of LUKS2 decryption:
- Supported transform functions: pbkdf2/argon2i/argon2id;
- Supported hashes: SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512;
- Supproted encryptions: AES/Serpent/Twofish/Blowfish (XTS or CBC);
- Rework of ZFS file system scan procedure:
- Now works on any supported ZPool configuration;
- Added scan support of Oracle RAID-Z mirror-style metadata;
- Better recovery of file system structure, including names/structure of lost datasets;
- In Explorer dialog of scan result:
- Function of manual renaming files and folders via 'Properties' dialog;
- Adjusting (reducing) file size via 'Properties' dialog;
- Deleting unrequired files from scan result (with 'Del' button; support of files only);
- Direct access to ZFS file system:
- Changed displaying of datasets to 'natural' tree structure instead of flat list;
- Fully reworked assembly of ZPools to support multiple RAID-Z VDevs and mirroring;
- Disk imaging with map (used/free space, selected files etc.):
- Added 'policy' of combining segments for map optimization (to ignore small 'gaps');
- Added 'Evaluate fragments' tool for assistance with selection of 'combining policy';
- In file copying procedure:
- Added 'Skip all' option to 'Failed to save..' dialog of current copying session;
- Changed to 'smooth' total progress and added indication of 'remaining size';
- Added displaying of 'Stated time' and 'Completion time estimate' values.
version 8.9
02.12.2020
What's new in version 8.9:
- Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) support: access, map of used blocks, scan;
- Support of Enmotus FuzeDrive storages;
- Added function of clearing 'read status map' for certain storage types:
- Function is added to drive/partition context menu of supported storages;
- Implemented clearing 'read status map' for SDLSP files, including 'on-demand images';
- DeepSpar disk imager:
- Implemented and added 'Clear Map' function (in disk context menu and on disk imager tab);
- In disk imager: added option for fast background imaging under full control of DDI;
- Added DDI Activity Monitor tool (available through disk context menu);
- Added DDI Terminal tool invocation to disk context menu;
- Opening the same terminal now activates exsting window (if present);
- Title of terminal window now includes DDI ID, project ID and IP;
- Fixed bug with read errors caused by unexpected UDP packets arrival.
- Decryption of BitLocker volumes:
- Show 'Recovery key identifier' in password entry dialog to identify recovery key;
- Support of incomplete encryption/decryption (Windows 7-10, Server 2008R2-2019);
- Indication of partitions with incomplete BitLocker encryption/decryption;
- In Explorer dialog:
- Files copying now hides preview/hexadecimal viewer panel to release space for log;
- 'Preview' button on toolbar now have sub-menu to open hex panel or last copying log;
- Added 'read' support of UDF file system from partitions with 512/4K sector size;
- Fixed problem reading ATA SMART under 32bit Windows;
- Under Linux/Mac: restoring 'owner' RWX permissions for copied files (when available).
version 8.8
11.11.2020
What's new in version 8.8:
- Added decryption of TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt-encrypted storages:
- Support of both password and file-based encryptions;
- Support of AES, Serpent, Camellia and Twofish decryption algorithms (no chains);
- Support of RIPEMD160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 and Whirlpool hash functions;
- Tests automatically standard/hidden and main/backup header locations.
- VMFS file system:
- Added automatic assembly of multi-extent and big (over 16TB) volumes;
- Fixed bug of VMFS/VMFS6 scan when partition start is not aligned properly.
- Added 'Drobo BeyondRAID Assistant' tool (Wizard mode):
- Selection of any disks for analysis (including spare, replaced etc.);
- Quick asynchronous scan for lost metadata;
- Caching of scan results to speed-up work with multiple configurations and/or volumes;
- Support of 1..8-disk RAID sub-configurations built on any number of disks in set;
- Automatic, semi-automatic and manual drive numbers assignment.
- Reworked usability of checkboxes on tree view of 'Explorer' UI;
- NTFS file system:
- Added procedure of files recovery using $LogFile content;
- Added indication and blocked copying of non-synchronized files from OneDrive;
- Enabled following symbolic links in Explorer (when possible);
- Fixed bug with copying error when source to target is copied root to root;
- Added displaying of metadata files to result of indexing of HFS+ file system.
version 8.7
19.10.2020
What's new in version 8.7:
- Drobo BeyondRAID:
- Reworked BeyondRAID internal reading procedure;
- Fixed bugs that caused errors in degraded RAID virtual reconstruction;
- Added recovery with two missing drives of dual redundacy configurations for 4-8 drives;
- Simplified RAID builder dialog for BeyondRAID configuration;
- ExFAT scan procedure:
- Additional procedure for finding previous file system align after storage re-partitioning;
- Reduced number of 'found file systems' with wrong align;
- NTFS: enabled direct file system access when $MFT DATA attribute is damaged;
- HFS+ file system:
- Fixed few bugs preventing detection of several partitions during single scan;
- Reduced memory use by better isolation of files between found file systems instances;
- Fixed several problems in software versions for macOS:
- Fixed crash bug in copying procedure when popup dialog window have to appear;
- Fixed rare bug causing dialog sheet to 'stuck';
- Fixed problem of displaying some auxilitary UI captions;
- Added software notarization for macOS version 10.14 and later;
- Added S.M.A.R.T. monitor window:
- Support of most important S.M.A.R.T. attributes for ATA drives (under all OS);
- Disk temperature and percent of spare space usage for NVMe drives (Windows);
- Disk temperature and growing list (G-List) size for SCSI drives (Windows, Linux);
- Manual or automatic data refresh;
- Function to enable/disable S.M.A.R.T. monitoring on ATA/SATA drives.
version 8.6
25.09.2020
What's new in version 8.6:
- Added tool for finding RAID6 Reed-Solomon code multiplicator coefficients;
- Added tool for unwrapping eCryptFS passwords from wrapped password files;
- Support of password unwrapping from Synology 'key file' backup and legacy keystore;
- Added address translation from component to RAID location for RAID0/1/1E/3/5/6/Span;
- Enabled support of address translation from disk-on-disk storage to parent;
- Raw data comparison tool:
- Added ability to change components order;
- Added tool for address translation to component;
- Indication of file chunk addresses on Btrfs file system and its scan result;
- Indication of inode offsets on Btrfs file system;
- Fixed rare crash bug that was happening at the end of storage scan;
- Fixed bug of failure of writing data to disk (modifying content) in SCSI mode;
- Modified handling of APFS metadata damage to show more structure when tree is damaged;
- Fixed several bugs with Btrfs file system scan;
- Raw recovery:
- 'Title' is now recovering as file name for .html and .wpl formats;
- Added title and date extracton from ODT/ODS/ODP document files;
- Fixed crash bug on invalid exe-file data.
version 8.5
02.09.2020
What's new in version 8.5:
- Added Adaptec RAID6 to 'Visual mode' of RAID Builder;
- Added 'Grid pattern' view mode to RAID Builder:
- Conversion of standard patterns to grid (including delay, shift etc.);
- Visualization of custom patterns created with RDL;
- Active pattern cell corresponds to hexadecima viewer position;
- Stripes naviagtion using pattern grid;
- Support of both vertical and horizontal pattern view modes;
- Added 'Entropy report' (histogram) to 'Reports view' of RAID Builder:
- Shows entropy histogram of all readable storage components;
- Configurable x-scale, y-scale and y-adjustment of the histogram;
- Supports sigma-smothing of histogram values;
- Custom histogram colors;
- Support of dynamic report reconfiguration when drives order is changed;
- Pick address location from report picture to navigation in hexadecimal viewer;
- In disk imager: handle BSY/DRQ status as a reason for retries and pausing imaging;
- Reworked procedure of deleted files recovery from EXT3/EXT4 file systems;
- Updated format of 'scan status database' and 'virtual file system' files;
- Photo viewer adopted for new digital camera raw formats of:
- CANON EOS-1D X Mark III, EOS 250D; Fuji GFX 100, X-Pro3, X100V, X-T4;
- Nikon D780, Z5; Pnanasonic DC-G100, DC-TZ95, DC-G90, DC-G95, DC-GX880;
- Sony DSC-RX100 VII, a7R IV, a6100, a9 II; Olympus TG-6 etc.
version 8.4
10.08.2020
What's new in version 8.4:
- Added DeepSpar Disk Imager network terminal to 'Tools' menu;
- RAID builder dialog:
- Added virtual sector size transform to disk menu;
- Changed icons to indicate component type and read method (System/ATA/SCSI);
- Ability to load partial RAID config via this UI (when components are missing);
- Displaying drive serial number or image file path as ID for missing components;
- RAID configuration files:
- Save/restore drive read method (System/ATA/SCSI);
- Drive Serial Number is now saved to config file;
- Restore RAID config with verification and priority of drive Serial Number;
- When disk image is not found, searching it at the same location on other drives;
- URCF extension is now mandatory for RAID configuration files;
- Added error reporting for bad RAID configs when opened via general 'Open' dialog;
- Added 'Skip file' button to copying dialog (to skip individual files);
- Raw recovery:
- Added file name generation for .contact, .vcf, .fb2 files;
- Recovery of name (Original/Internal) and build date from Windows executables;
- Adjustment of file size for EXE/DLL/SYS files to match size of sections and signature;
- Speed-up of properties (preview) extraction for Windows executable files;
- In disk list: change drive icon to ATA/SCSI when drive works with custom method;
- Added ability to change read method via storage properties;
- In 'Open device': devices are re-sorted by drive number.
version 8.3
20.07.2020
What's new in version 8.3:
- 'Open file location' funtion in search result now selects object in list;
- In file system report, double-click to record in error log selects object in Explorer;
- Preserving selection of sub-folder when navigating to parent folder using navigation bar;
- EXT file system: speed up of journal processing at completion stage;
- XFS file system: optimization of indexing procedure;
- APFS file system:
- Added support of Apple extended attributes for direct access;
- Added support of basic (resident) attributes in scan result;
- HFS+ file system:
- Speed up of file system indexing;
- Fixed bug reading extended attributes in direct access mode;
- Apple extended attributes and resource forks:
- Support of saving them to NTFS/ReFS named data streams for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP);
- Attribute storage in scan result was moved one level deeper in folder structure;
- Raw recovery: support of more types and several enhancements.
version 8.2
30.06.2020
What's new in version 8.2:
- Support of MRT DE Tasks:
- Added option to load Task from context menu of virtual task disk mapped to OS;
- Loading source name/ID information from the Task file;
- Loading map of defects associated with the Task file;
- Control of disk imaging via running MRT software (by ranges, files, maps etc.);
- Open disk image file from MRT DE File Image chunks;
- Rework of NTFS scan procedure:
- In part of 'red' file systems - for memory use reduction;
- Exraction of some missing file system structure elements from Log File (Journal);
- In disk imager:
- Disabled bad blocks logging if defect block is emulated by the software;
- Fixed rounding issue when map cluster size is smaller then imaging sector size;
- Fixed bug with growing saved jump size (each time after tool restart);
- Fixed several bugs causing software crash.
version 8.1
17.06.2020
What's new in version 8.1:
- Modifications to Disk Imager:
- Option to save defect map and log to 'the same location' when target path is selected;
- Added 'test API call' start stage to make sure API works with specified parameters;
- Pausing imaging process in case of API call errors (when disk is disconnected etc.);
- Read errors from imaging procedure (ATA/SCSI) are now duplicated to main event log;
- Fixed skipping blocks when SCSI layer reports invalid 'resid' value (Linux etc.);
- New functions in procedure of files recovery in 'raw mode' (IntelliRAW):
- DOCX, JPEG, Raw photos - extract file name and modification date from file content;
- XLSX, TIFF - extract file modification date from metadata;
- Added analysis of file tails of ZIP archives when chunk sizes are not enabled;
- Toggle selection of partitions in partition manager;
- Fixed bug reading disks with defect blocks under Linux using 'system procedure'.
version 8.0.1
08.06.2020
What's new in version 8.0.1:
- Fixed problems in disk imager:
- zeroing buffer to prevent writing non-zero values to defect blocks on target;
- fixed problem selecting 'system procedure' when there are no other options.
version 8.0
03.06.2020
What's new in version 8.0:
- Added reverse address translation for data logical damage diagnostics;
- Added control of network imaging with DeepSpar DDI;
- Support of file system used space map manipulation (conversion to defects, imaging etc.);
- More file system reports (including report of defect files);
- Ability to copy files with defects and optionally move them to $BadFiles folder;
- Support of loading disk image files from PC-3000 chunk sets;
- Advanced disk imager tool (with support of ATA/SCSI direct);
- Advanced 'Open Storage' procedure to support work with defect disks;
- More options to scan file systems;
- Changes to hexadecimal viewer UI;
- Advaced error reporting, including disk defects warning popup;
- And more...
version 7.16
06.02.2020
What's new in version 7.16:
- Fixed bug reading legacy ReFS volumes;
- Fixed issue with no error reporting when disk is imaged to write-protected disk;
- Saving of processed data can be continued on existing file;
- Enabled manual editing of Read-once storage;
- Fixed bugs in FAT recovery module:
- Removed record attributes verification for Volume Name entry;
- Fixed bug with reconstruction of fragmented files when second FAT table is damaged.
- Modified procedure of classification of found MFT entries from unlinked MFT chunks.
version 7.15
27.12.2019
What's new in version 7.15:
- Added Adaptec RAID6 (dedicated XOR) with degraded mode;
- Added degraded/double-degraded recovery for HP MSA RAID6 with diagonal XOR;
- Added support of HP ADG RAID6 coefficients (up to 48 drives);
- Added support of custom coefficients for RAID6 Reed-Solomon code;
- Added Compact Left Symmetric rotation for RAID5 (for LSI RAID50 etc.);
- Hexadecimal search with any block size (big blocks scanned with jumps);
- Fixed bug with FAT/FAT32 file system indexing.
version 7.14.1
03.12.2019
What's new in version 7.14.1:
- Added double-degraded RAID6 recovery with DELL Equallogic diagonal XOR;
- Search for APFS encryption keys:
- added displaying of both KEK and VEK records;
- added search for older keyring blocks for known APFS containers.
- Fixed bug building degraded RAID4/RAID5 VX;
- Fixed issue with RAID6 adaptive reconstruction when one disk is missing;
- Pattern-storage/defects mask: extended length of pattern field to 1536 symbols;
- Fixed bug with parsing Novell NSS 'big' partition;
- Optimization of HFS+ scan result set;
- Fixed issue with focus location in hex 'go to' dialog (fixed base position);
- In partition manager: fixed bug removing partitions.
version 7.14
07.11.2019
What's new in version 7.14:
- ZFS direct access:
- Fixed bug in double-degraded RAID-Z2/Z3 recovery;
- Added support of RAID-Zx0 (stripe of RAID-Z/Z2/Z3);
- Added support of SunOS-specific "long" allocations on RAID-Z;
- - Fixed several bugs in metadata parser procedure.
- Dynamic HTML report:
- Fixed problem with JavaScript integer precision for big object IDs;
- Report with filter is now displayed with minimal required folder structure;
- HTML styles corrections.;
- Microsoft data deduplication support is now available in quick scan;
- Added support of VMware seSparse VMDK;
- Enhanced raw recovery procedure for MPEG Transport Stream (MTS/M2TS) files;
- Fixed bug with "filter" function ("must match"/"must NOT match" pattern).
version 7.13
14.10.2019
What's new in version 7.13:
- Added "Dynamic HTML Report":
- interactive navigation on file system structure;
- interactive file search function;
- interactive report conversion to XML/CSV format;
- files/folders selection from report;
- reverse import of selection state to UFS Explorer/Recovery Explorer.
- Extended basic XML/CSV reports with ID/parent ID to preserve FS structure;
- Added search for LUKS partitions in partition manager;
- Fixed bug reading BitLocker volumes on drives with 4K sector size;
- Update to Windows Server 2016/2019 data deduplication:
- Fixed several bugs related to reparse point formats;
- Fixed bug processing files with size over 1GB.
- Significantly reduced number of storage reads during file systems detection;
- Extended 'normal' detection of NTFS, FAT32, HFS+ and EXT volumes using backup metadata;
- Fixed reading of Windows dynamic disks with GPT layout;
- Option to skip found regions during partition search for faster scan.
version 7.12
16.09.2019
What's new in version 7.12:
- Added support of WD Cloud file system:
- Translation of Cloud database to file system structure;
- Support of main database or backup copy (on choice).
- Added parallel data visualization in RAID builder:
- Synchronized with hexadecimal data viewer;
- Automatic reconstruction of missing data (when available);
- RAID pattern visualization;
- Automatic parity check (when available);
- Highlighting of key structures (such as MFT).
- Button to show/hilde left (storages list) panel;
- Added support of defect blocks in format of ACE Data Recovery MHZ;
- Now saves RAID configuration when sector size transform is enabled;
- Fixed some issues and speed-optimized ZFS file system scan;
- Fixes to Btrfs file system support:
- Fix of crash bug during scan in some scenarios;
- Fixed reading of compressed files.
- Update to PDF viewer: added support of buggy files with shifted xref table;
- Added extra search for folder name entries for EXT file system;
- Fixed bug reading legacy HFS volumes;
- Added Spanish software interface language.
version 7.11
19.08.2019
What's new in version 7.11:
- Added support of DeepSpar DDI over network;
- Added to Apple Core Storage:
- Plain blocks, referece type 11;
- Support of compressed multi-block XML metadata.
- Added 'Pause' function to file copying procedure:
- Quick pause/resume for temporary 'releasing' disk;
- Option of finishing current file and with ability to change destination path.
- Support of NTFS with cluster size over 64KB;
- Support of Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces metadata;
- Added cluster size indication to file system properties;
- Fixed bug using 'Open' dialog with scan results of virtual disks.
version 7.10.1
27.07.2019
What's new in version 7.10.1:
- Added support of 'unencrypted' key type for BitLocker;
- Modifications to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure:
- Fixed bug with file system indexing and zero-size files;
- Better detection of deleted file entries with Asian/OEM encodings;
- Enabled support of duplication of deleted entries when they are in different folders.
- Fixed issues with recovery of NTFS folder structure when 'indexing' is enabled.
version 7.10
22.07.2019
What's new in version 7.10:
- Support of 'long' deduplication reparse points on NTFS (Windows Server 2019);
- Fixed bug reading files from Microsoft Deduplication Database in some scenarios;
- Fixed bug reading directory structure of latest ReFS3 file system;
- Apple Core Storage: fixed crash bug, added block reference type "16";
- Added search for BitLocker partitions to Partitions Manager;
- Added BitLocker indication to Partitions Manager;
- Major rework of NTFS scan procedure:
- Added old/duplicated objects removal from scan result;
- Better processing of lost files (with descriptors out of MFT);
- Changed priorities of file names processing;
- Fixed bug in folder structure recovery by INDX entries;
- Fixed bug with scan resumption and calling Recycle Bin processing;
- Added support of Recycle Bin indexes with version 2.
- Added Portuguese software interface language.
version 7.9
03.07.2019
What's new in version 7.9:
- Added support of DeepSpar image file format (DDI, including defect block maps);
- Added Virtual Pattern storage for construction of over-degraded RAID;
- Added function of converting span of sparse components to sparse virtual disk;
- Added function to open base files of sparse virtual disks for fine-tuning of VD container;
- Added function to open disk as virtual disk for full-disk clones of virtual disks;
- Fixed problem with recognition of BitLocker when recovery key comes with version not equal to 1;
- Fixed bug with BitLocker "plain key" format;
- Fixed bug applying delta files in format of Split-VMDK;
- Added option to apply masks to folders for copying with filter;
- NTFS $MFT tail processing is now included into quick scan (to file system indexing).
version 7.8.3
13.06.2019
What's new in version 7.8.3:
- Fix to VMFS/VMFS6: support of data holes in file of type 1;
- Reworked scan procedure for ExFAT (for better handling of deleted records).
version 7.8.2
20.05.2019
What's new in version 7.8.2:
- Fixed bug with reading big files on VMFS6;
- Added support of "CLOUD" reparse points on NTFS (files from OneDrive etc.);
- Read-only support of "streamOptimized" (compressed) format of VMware VMDK files.
version 7.8.1
08.05.2019
What's new in version 7.8.1:
- Saving virtual file system structure for off-site revision;
- Added function to save/restore files/folders selection state;
- Loading of virtual FS structure for review and files selection;
- Added possibility to rename temporary disk in user interface;
- Fixed problem with ExFAT root folder validation during full-disk scan;
- Fixed issue with recognition of SCSI transport for fiber-channel connected storages;
- Support of switching to SCSI transport even when SCSI INQUIRY command fails.
version 7.8
22.04.2019
What's new in version 7.8:
- Added virtual sector size transform function (for SATA drives and disk image files);
- Added LVM logical volume recovery manager UI:
- Search for older versions of LVM configurations;
- Open logical volume from found configurations;
- Search for missing physical volumes;
- Manual definition and assignment of missing physical volumes;
- Extended context menu functions in partition manager;
- Drobo support: using of alternative drive IDs, big volume sizes;
- Fixed bug with scanned Btrfs file system filtering.
version 7.7
29.03.2019
What's new in version 7.7:
- Added masking of bad blocks (replacing bad blocks with custom pattern);
- Added AES XTS support for BitLocker;
- Updated RAID configurations save/restore procedure:
- Added support of EWF-files in saved RAID configuration;
- Added support of virtual (VFS) files in RAID configuration;
- Custom RAID names are now preserved.
- Reworked LVM module for latest LVM2 (with added DM RAID function);
- Assignment of LVM names to LVM partitions and logical volumes;
- Option of automatic saving of scan state immediately after full scan;
- Simplified process of removal of opened storage components;
- Regular update to embedded pictures viewer.
version 7.6
11.03.2019
What's new in version 7.6:
- Support of BitLocker encryption (with user password and recovery key);
- Support of ReFS 3.4 format (Windows Server 2019);
- Support of Microsoft data deduplication on ReFS volumes;
- Fixed bug reading Core Storage metadata in "pending state";
- Support of ZFS-on-Linux custom ZFS metadata;
- Support of "bogous" FreeNAS RAID10 (mix of simple disks and mirrors);
- Fixed bug with multiple detections of NT LDM volumes.
version 7.5
18.02.2019
What's new in version 7.5:
- Added support of SCSI drives with non-standard sector size (like 520 bytes etc.);
- Added "dynamic" map of bad blocks (by pattern recognition);
- Added bad blocks definition directly to RAID Builder;
- Drive context menu to RAID builder;
- Fixed bug with adaptive RAID reconstruction;
- Added support of non-fragmented FileVault2 (type 15);
- Added support of old HP-UX LVM;
- Added support of R-Studio image file format (RDR-files);
- Updated support of Apple DMG files;
- macOS: Added placeholder for inaccessible disks;
- macOS: Fixed bug reading disks with sector size 4KB.
version 7.4
31.01.2019
What's new in version 7.4:
- Added multi-selection for 'Open file as disk image' function;
- Added 'Open as spanned volume' function for multiple selected storage components;
- Added support of QCOW/QCOW2 virtual disk image format (QUEMU, XEN etc.);
- Added support of VirtualBox VDI virtual disk format;
- Fixed some interface-related bugs.
version 7.3
07.01.2019
What's new in version 7.3:
- Fixed read and scan procedure for new ReFS3 metadata format;
- Added support of Apple Core Storage metadata fragmentation;
- Added "extension" field for file report;
- Added "totals" for XML and HTML report formats;
- Added support of ZFS ZVOL objects;
- Significantly enhanced scan of APFS file system.
version 7.2
20.12.2018
What's new in version 7.2:
- Added option for loading Apple Fusion Drive with minor encryption as unencrypted;
- Added optional 'total' progress for files copying;
- Added 'stop copying' option for 'duplicate file' conflict;
- Reworked reporting of files list/total data size;
- Modified p.6 of EULA (Territory).
version 7.1
06.12.2018
What's new in version 7.1:
- Added support of older metadata for legacy Core Storage Apple FusionDrive;
- Added support of Apple Fusion Drive created with Apple APFS;
- Added more parititon indicators;
- Updated embedded viewer component.
version 7.0
12.11.2018
What's new in version 7.0:
- Added scanning of RAID-Z volumes;
- Added support of BeyondRAID;
- Added support of NTFS deduplication;
- Added support of bad sector maps created by ACE Lab software;
- Defining damaged regions using bad sector maps created by ACE Lab software;
- Adaptive reconstruction of redundant RAID using maps of bad sectors;
- New zoomable interface with prompts;
- Detecting attempts to save files to the initial storage for the macOS software version;
- New icons for partitions which show the detected technologies;
- New scanning procedure: pausing and restoring options, previewing and saving
intermediate results.