UFS Explorer is a full-featured and fast data recovery and file undeleting program for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by SysDev Laboratories from Ukraine. It can recover various types of data lost in computers due to various reasons, supports various storage devices, supports all commonly used file systems on various operating systems, and can even restore files in virtual machines.

As an expert-level tool that was created to solve highly complex data recovery challenges, UFS Explorer successfully combines low-level data analysis and data management functions with advanced data recovery tools. With its help, you can perform thorough and full-scale data recovery. It includes a set of read-only data analysis tools, and a writable hex editor, which can correct file system corruption. If desired, UFS Explorer’s low-level tools allow permanent changes to the original information contained on the storage device.

In addition to linear storage media such as hard drives, thumb drives, and memory cards, UFS Explorer can also handle RAID-based storage devices with various layouts, including standard, nested, custom, and specific configurations such as Beyond Raid, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID, and ZFS RAID-Z. Its built-in 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. It supports numerous file systems under various operating systems, provides direct access to their contents, and supports various storage technologies. In addition, UFS Explorer supports various virtualization systems such as VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, QEMU, Xen and disk images in many formats.

// Key Features //

General features

Immediate access to undamaged file system Recovery of lost and deleted data Recovery of corrupted file systems Work with internal and external storage media Work with disk images and virtual disks Data recovery from RAID storages Virtual disk-on-disk recovery Work with encrypted storages Advanced data analysis tools Raw data editor File preview

Supported technologies

Apple Core Storage, LVM thin provisioning NT LDM, MDADM, MS Storage Spaces LUKS, BitLocker, FileVault 2, encrypted APFS, eCryptFS QEMU, XEN (QCOW/QCOW2) VirtualBox (VDI) VMware VMDK (sparse, flat), Hyper-V (VHD/VHDX) Encase image file format (both versions 1 and 2) R-Studio image files (RDR) Apple Disk Image files (DMG) Split disk images created by DDI SCSI/SAS-drives with non-standard sector sizes (520 bytes, 524 bytes, 528 bytes, etc.) Sorting and combining MRT DE file image chunks into an image file

Work with defective disks

Drive reading configuration Read-once disk access Advanced disk imaging tool Creation of a defects map during imaging Conversion of used file system space to a mask Support of disk images instead of original disks (including ones of third-party software) Direct (network) access to disks connected through DeepSpar Disk Imager Creating “dynamic” (pattern-based) maps of bad blocks for disk images Software processing of defective areas on disk images with the help of bad sector maps created by UFS Explorer or third-party programs (DeepSpar DDI, ACE Lab PC-3000 and others) Support of task files of MRT Data Explorer Control over disk imaging performed by MRT solutions (by ranges, files, maps etc.)

Operating systems for installation

Windows Linux macOS

Data recovery

Data recovery from internal and external hard drives Data recovery from USB flash drives and memory cards Data recovery from disk images and virtual disks Data recovery from Windows file systems (FAT/FAT32/exFAT/NTFS) Data recovery from the ReFS/ReFS3 file system Data recovery from macOS file systems (HFS+, APFS) Data recovery from Linux file systems (Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, UFS/UFS2, XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, Btrfs) Data recovery the Linux F2FS file system Data recovery from the SUN ZFS file system Data recovery from the VMware ESX(i) VMFS file system Data recovery by known content IntelliRAW data recovery with custom rules

Data access

Immediate access to files and folders Immediate access to file system (pre-recovery file system analysis) Opening custom block devices (SCSI, CD/DVD, RAID, etc.) Reporting file/folder allocation information and direct access to object fragments Reporting file/folder descriptor disposition and direct access to its on-disk position Data access to Novell NetWare file systems (Novell NWFS, NSS, NSS64) Data access to the IBM/Microsoft HPFS file system

RAID support

Support of standard RAID patterns: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 3, Span Support of RAID-on-RAID (RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, etc.) Support of “stripe”-volumes with ZFS and RAID-Z (RAID-Z, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3) Adaptive reconstruction of standard and nested RAID using maps of bad sectors Saving and restoring RAID configurations Support of custom “virtual image” files of Runtime Software Automatic recognition of known RAID metadata Automatic assembly of spanned volumes Support of custom RAID configurations through RAID Definition Language Data recovery from Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology SHR, Btrfs-RAID Data recovery from Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays

Additional functions

Hexadecimal viewer Analysis of files allocation on disk with hexadecimal viewer Analysis of partition allocation with hexadecimal viewer Reverse data address translation Indication of used file system space Professional tools for data analysis (field highlighting, data interpreter, parity calculator) Auto-span tool Data comparison tool Parallel search tool Drive sharing over LAN Connecting to a shared storage Automatic sector mutation (for disks with non-standard sector sizes)

Interface

Zoomable interface Option of pausing scan Visualization of scan Helpful prompts

// 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.

// 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

// 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)

// Supported Storage 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

// Official Demo Video //

// Universal Registration Codes //

For	Registration name	Registration code
v8.x.x	AppNee Freeware Group.	C3U32AB1-0743A898-D23FA35E-2B80A353-8B869056-550FBF3B
v9.x.x		P3U33835-44452120-C341AE67-10BEB33C-B480B4C2-C3035B2B
v10.x.x		C9U3499F-13371337-13371337-13371337-13371337-13371337 C6U3419F-13301264-0F8727D9-5867B662-142EBC6F-C1142C79 C6U3419F-2003A957-32E38716-06AC8893-391930CA-73FD1209 P3U33835-75471264-85C868E4-A28F0348-C91C05CD-8949DB4F

// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the UFS Explorer Professional Recovery Edition multilingual full installers and universal registration codes, as well as portable full registered versions for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

// Installation Notes //

for v9.18.0+ setup versions on Windows:

1. Download and install UFS Explorer
2. Copy the corresponding unlocked file to installation folder and overwrite
3. Run program, click the “Software Activation and License” icon at the upper right corner, and use the universal registration code above to register
4. Done

*** You may need to block this program with your firewall.

for v8.16.0 setup versions on Windows:

1. Download and install UFS Explorer
2. Run program, click the “Software Activation and License” icon at the upper right corner, and use the universal registration code above to register
3. Done

// Prompts //

• You man need to run UFS Explorer as administrator.

// Related Links //

• UFS Explorer Editions Comparison
• UFS Explorer User Manual
• UFS Explorer Knowledge Base
• UFS Explorer F.A.Q.

// Download URLs //

License	Version	Download	Size
for Windows
Professional Recovery Edition	v8.16.0	reserved	13.8 MB
	v9.18.0	reserved	32.9 MB
	v10.11.1		20.1 MB

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