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.

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.

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.

How to recover data from WD My Cloud Home

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-wd-my-cloud-home/

How to recover data from Dell EqualLogic with RAID 6

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-dell-equallogic/

How to recover data from Apple Fusion Drive (Core Storage and APFS)

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-apple-fusion-drive/

How to recover data from Btrfs-RAID

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-btrfs-raid/

How to recover data from ZFS RAID-Z

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-zfs-raid-z/

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;

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to recover data from a simple ZFS volume

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-zfs-volume/

How to recover data from Drobo

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-drobo/

How to recover data from a Linux LVM volume with Thin Provisioning

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-lvm-thin-provisioning/

How to recover data from Microsoft Storage Spaces

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-ms-storage-spaces/

How to recover data from volumes that use Microsoft data deduplication

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-ms-data-deduplication/

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

How to recover data from a LUKS-encrypted volume

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-luks-encryption/

How to recover data from a volume encrypted with BitLocker

 

https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-bitlocker/

How to recover data from an encrypted Apple APFS volume

 https://www.ufsexplorer.com/articles/how-to/recover-data-apfs-encryption/