Overview
UFS Explorer Professional Recovery is an expert-level software instrument created to address highly complicated data recovery challenges.Along with linear electronic media, like hard disks, thumb drives and memory cards, the program handles RAID-based storages with various layouts, including standard, nested, custom and specific configurations – Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID and ZFS RAID-Z.
The integrated decryption algorithms make it possible to open volumes encrypted with BitLocker, LUKS, FileVault 2 and APFS without having to unlock them in the operating system.
The software also supports numerous file systems used in Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, offering direct access to their content, well as a variety of storage technologies, among which are Windows Dynamic Disks, Storage Spaces and deduplication, Apple Software RAID,
Core Storage and Time Machine, Linux mdadm and LVM with Thin Provisioning. Furthermore, the application allows working with various virtualization systems, like VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, QEMU, XEN and many formats of disk images.
Moreover, UFS Explorer Professional Recovery features extended possibilities for efficient processing of storage devices, especially ones that demonstrate certain hardware problems.
The software offers an advanced procedure for opening storages with parameters as to their usage and an opportunity to save a sparse image file with the processed data. Operations with drives connected to DeepSpar Disk Imager can be performed via LAN and controlled by the software without the need for any third-party solutions.
A full or partial image of a disk can also be created with the help of an embedded imaging function with various settings for disk reading and omission of damaged blocks.
A map with defective areas can be generated during imaging or through the conversion of used/free file system space to mask and employed during the recovery procedure.
The raw content of files and storages can be analyzed and edited directly in the software with a broad set of supplementary tools.
Technical specifications
The software can be installed on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux.Supported host operating systems:
Microsoft Windows ®: Windows ® XP with Service Pack 3 and later
Apple macOS: version 10.15 and above
Linux: Debian Linux 6.0 (or compatible) and above
Supported host computer architectures:
Intel Architecture, 32-bit (IA-32, x86)
AMD64 (x86-64)
Apple Silicon (arm64)
The software works with file systems of Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD/Solaris.
Supported file systems:
Data access and advanced recovery:
Windows: NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS/ReFS3;
macOS: HFS+, APFS;
Linux: Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Extended format XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, UFS, UFS2, Adaptec UFS, big-endian UFS, Btrfs, F2FS;
BSD/Solaris: ZFS volumes;
VMware: VMFS, VMFS6.
Data access only:
macOS: HFS;
Novell: NWFS, NSS, NSS64;
IBM/Microsoft: HPFS.
The software supports virtual building, reading and data recovery from RAID.
Recovery from complex RAID storages:
Automatic recognition of known RAID metadata, saving and editing RAID configurations
Automatic reconstruction of mdadm, LVM, Apple Software RAID, Intel Matrix, etc.
Support of most popular standard RAID patterns for RAID 0, RAID 1E, RAID 3, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 7, etc.
RAID-on-RAID support: RAID level 10, 50, 60, 50E, etc.
Support of custom RAID patterns via RDL or Runtime VIM
Support of "stripe"-volumes with ZFS and RAID-Z (RAID-Z, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3)
Adaptive reconstruction of RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 5E, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 0+1 and nested RAID (levels 50, 51, 60, 61, etc.) using maps of bad sectors and in case of presence of defects (reading errors)
RAID assembly from virtual disks
Support of Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID
Recovery from Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays with degraded RAID 5, RAID 10, etc. and up to double-degraded RAID 6, RAID 60; volume data recovery (using an external data map)
The software is able to decrypt encrypted storages.
Supported encryption techniques:
Full-disk encryption
LUKS encryption
Apple FileVault 2 encryption
Encryption of Apple APFS volumes
File system conversion (eCryptFS)
BitLocker and BitLocker To Go encryption
The software is capable of working with disk images and virtual machines.
Supported virtual technologies:
VMware VMDK, Hyper-V VHD/VHDX, QEMU/XEN QCOW/QCOW2, VirtualBox VDI, Apple DMG, Paralles, EnCase E01 and Ex01 non-encrypted files, simple disk images
Internal sparse format
Support of drive as a disk image (for XEN and others)
Synology Sparse iSCSI
Opening a partition/file within a storage as a virtual disk
Support of split DeepSpar DDI images
Custom "virtual image" files of Runtime Software
R-Studio image files (RDR file format)
Dynamic definition of virtual bad blocks on disk images using an external map or by recognizing a given pattern
Work with disk images created by MRT data recovery tools (sorting and combining file image chunks into an image file)
The software is capable of detecting and working with a wide range of modern storage technologies.
Supported technologies:
Full support:
Logical Disk Manager, Storage Spaces, Microsoft volume deduplication, Apple Core Storage, LVM with thin provisioning, mdadm
Recognition:
Providing a partition table, information about Spans and Stripes of LVM2, AIX LVM, HP-UX LVM, Apple Software RAID
Giving a partition structure for MBR, Apple Partition Map, BSD/Adaptec/Solaris/Unix Slice Map, GPT, Novel, Intel Matrix
Drobo volumes, HP EVA, HP LeftHand, Symphony SAN
The program can handle drives with damaged sectors.
Ways and means to work with damaged disks:
Advanced “Open storage” procedure with drive reading configuration
Option of read-once disk access with saving of processed data
Direct network access and processing of disks connected through DeepSpar Disk Imager, including imaging by a bitmap
Embedded disk imager with settings for read method/timeout and parameters for skipping defects
Production of a defects map during the imaging process
Conversion of used file system space to a mask
Imaging of used space with the help of a file system map
Creating "dynamic" (pattern-based) maps of bad blocks for disk images
Use of disk images instead of original disks (including ones from third-party software)
Defining damaged regions using bad sector maps created by UFS Explorer or compatible third-party tools (ACE Lab solutions, DeepSpar DDI)
Interaction with MRT Data Explorer, including the support of task files and control over disk imaging performed by MRT data recovery tools (imaging by a bitmap, choosing specific ranges, files/folders, etc.)
The application has been expanded through a set of additional tools and features.
Supplementary features:
Tools for low-level data analysis:
Hexadecimal viewer for storages, partitions, files, file fragments
Hexadecimal editor for disks and partitions
Field highlighting
Data interpreter
Parity calculator
Storage content comparison
Bitwise "exclusive OR" (XOR) function
Parallel search
Data allocation tracing through reverse address translation
View of file fragments with virtual offsets and sizes
Indication of used file system space
Additional functions related to storage scan:
Pausing the scan
Previewing intermediate scan results
Saving scan results for further work
Full-range storage scan for all-at-once data recovery
Visualization of the scanning process
Five options for handling the existing file system
Options for work with partitions:
Detecting lost partitions
Automated partition aligning
Defining partitions manually
Auto-span tool
Reporting capabilities:
Interactive HTML report
Basic list of folders and files (HTML, CSV, XML)
Recoverable data size with metadata test
Software events log
System requirements – supported OS, 1 GB of RAM, 20 MB of free space.
Minimal configuration:
any of the supported operating systems
at least 20 MB of free space on the disk for the software executable files
at least 1 GB of RAM
Linux software version can run from most modern Linux Live CD
Recommended configuration:
64-bit edition of any of the supported operating systems
over 1 GB of free space on the disk for the program and temporary files
at least 2 GB of RAM and 4 logical cores CPU
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