UFS Explorer

Technical specifications

Supported file systems for recovery

  • NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS/ReFS3;

  • HFS+, APFS;

  • Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Extended format XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, UFS, UFS2, Adaptec UFS, big-endian UFS, Btrfs, F2FS;

  • ZFS;

  • VMFS, VMFS6.

Supported file systems for reading

  • HFS;

  • NWFS, NSS, NSS64;

  • HPFS;

  • Legacy JFS1, JFS2;

  • EAFS, HTFS, DTFS;

  • VxFS4, VxFS6, VxFS7;

  • NxFS.

RAID support

  • Composite volumes: mdadm, LVM, LDM, Apple Software RAID, Intel Matrix;

  • Most standard RAID patterns: RAID 0, RAID 1E, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, etc.;

  • Nested (Hybrid) RAID levels: RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, RAID 50E, etc.;

  • Non-standard RAID: Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, ZFS RAID-Z, Btrfs-RAID, Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays;

  • Custom RAID patterns: via RAID Definition Language or Runtime VIM;

  • Adaptive RAID reconstruction: 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.

Other technologies:

  • QNAP Qtier technology;

  • Encryption technologies: BitLocker, FileVault 2, APFS encryption, LUKS (1, 2), TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt, eCryptFS;

  • Virtual disks and disk images: Non-encrypted disk images created with specialized forensic tools (EnCase, FTK disk imager, etc.), VMware (VMDK), Hyper-V (VHD/VHDX), QEMU/XEN (QCOW/QCOW2), VirtualBox (VDI), Parallels (PVM), Synology Sparse iSCSI, Apple Disk Images (DMG), disk images of DeepSpar DDI, R-Studio image files (RDR), simple disk images;

  • Other storage technologies: Microsoft Storage Spaces, Apple Core Storage, Fusion Drive, LVM/LVM 2 with thin provisioning, SCSI and SAS drives with a non-standard sector size.

Additional tools and 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, reverse data address translation, data comparison tool, bitwise "exclusive OR" (XOR) function, parallel search, view of file fragments with virtual offsets and sizes, indication of used file system space;

  • Features for work with damaged disks: configurable drive reading procedure, read-once disk access with saving of processed data, advanced embedded disk imager, conversion of used file system space to a mask, defining damaged regions using bad sector maps (created by UFS Explorer or compatible third-party tools –ACE PC-3000, DeepSpar DDI, etc.), S.M.A.R.T. monitor for drives, event log, direct network access and processing of disks connected via DeepSpar Disk Imager, support of Task files from MRT Data Explorer, control over disk imaging performed by MRT data recovery tools;

  • Auxiliary options: files preview, search, sorting, filtering and others.

Trial limitations

  • The software will copy files the size of which doesn’t exceed 768 KB;

  • The "Save" function is disabled in certain hexadecimal viewer/editor dialogs.

System requirements

Supported host operating systems

  • Microsoft Windows ®: starting with Windows ® 8 and later;

Supported host computer architectures

  • Intel Architecture, 64-bit (IA-64, x86);

  • AMD64 (x86-64).

Minimal configuration

  • Any of the supported host operating systems;

  • at least 20 MB of free space on the disk for the executable files of the software;

  • at least 1 GB of RAM;

Recommended configuration

  • A 64-bit edition of any of the supported host 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;

  • any web browser.