What’s new in this version:
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.16.0
– Microsoft Storage Spaces: Fixed issue with data mapping calculation on multi-tier spaces
– Fixed bug with adaptive reconstruction of RAID10/1E
– Added basic support of RAID metadata created by ASMedia ASM1xxxR chips
– HFS+ scan: fixed issue in Journal analysis procedure that can cause excessive memory use and even crash in some scenarios
– Refactored code of ZFS access module to fix a ‘ZFS access’ bug in Linux software version caused by incorrect code optimisation by gcc compiler
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.15.0
Update to Drobo BeyondRAID Assistant tool:
– Added automatic detection of ‘block metadata size’ before scan
– Added adjustment of block metadata size for cases with different meta block size on disks
– Also added verification and of validity and compatibility of ‘block metadata size’ before starting the scan
Asustor NAS in Media Manager:
– Fixed issue with not displaying content for single-disk NAS
– Added search for RAID components even if NAS-specific metadata is not present on them
– ZFS scan: fixed a crash bug in LZ4 decompression algorithm
– ExFAT scan: reworked ‘completion’ stage to work significantly faster, as well as fixed an issue with an ‘infinite completion’ is some scenarios
– NTFS file system scan: fixed bug with invalid reconstruction of bigger files from the Journal (log) file
– Fixed bug with restoration of connection to a source disk image (or a virtual disk) after a storage with such an image is reconnected
– Linux version: fixed problem running the software with 15/16bit desktop colour depths
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.14.0
– Intel ISM configurations: fixed issue with detection on image files in some scenarios
Microsoft Storage Spaces:
– Added support of SPCACHE storage caching mechanism (used in recent Windows Server versions to speed up ‘Parity’ volumes)
– Automatic Storage Space assembly procedure is modified to support Transaction log or Cache (if available)
– Automatic procedure now can be configured to not assemble spaces, assemble just a plain volume or assemble with log/cache enabled (default)
– Fixed issue updating configurations with missing drives
ReFS file system:
– Fixed issue that caused duplication of files produced by the file system scan in some scenarios
– Fixed issue with support of reparse points with a shorter metadata chain (ReFS version 3.14)
– Fixed issue displaying of some detected complex volumes (required additional ‘refresh’ operation)
– Added detection of deleted partitions when disk is initialised with an empty GPT (only ‘Reserved’ partition is defined)
– ExFAT scan: a couple of fixes for better recovery quality of folder structure
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.13.0
– Btrfs file system: fixed issue reading RAID10 metadata format with missing disks
– Fixed bug in adaptive reconstruction algorithm for RAID1E
– FAT32 scan: better recognition of start position of file allocation table with severe damage to both copies
– Updated procedure of file restoration from ‘Recycle.Bin’: now also restoring some previously skipped files
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.12.1
– Added possibility to hide physical and logical drives in the UI (such as a ‘system’ drive or a ‘target’ drive(s))
– Added special UI to unhide or open a hidden storage
– In the disk imager: the software now automatically creates a ‘.props’ file containing the properties of the imaged device (for a target format other then .sdlsp)
– When opening image files, the software now checks for the presence of a ‘.props’ file and restores the name, serial number and WWN (if available)
– Added the ability to force the serial number and/or WWN for an image file created by third party software by using of ‘.props’ files
– Fixed a software crash bug on some older x86-based CPUs
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.12
– Automatic RAID reconstruction: fixed a bug that prevented automatic assembly of ‘stripe over mirrors’ in some scenarios
– Fixed issue with support of MS Storage Spaces with reported ‘mirror/single component/2 copies’ configuration
– Fixed issue with decryption of BitLocker on storages with 4K sectors (affected BitLocker on Storage Spaces)
– Found and fixed a crash bug with direct reading of ReFS file system in some rare scenarios
– Fixed a bug with reading sparse files on ZFS file system
– File search tool is extended with ‘search by content’ option
– Possibility to search for a specific pattern: at a fixed position or anywhere in a file
– An option to specify ‘content type’ to search for (including custom, user-defined types) – independently or in conjunction with the search by pattern
– Restoration of symbolic links
– Now, by default, the software will attempt to restore symbolic links on the target
– Added possibility to configure and save linked files instead of links (useful for Promise Apollo and similar scenarios)
– In the ‘Copy selection (advanced)’ tool, the above setting can also be enabled for once
– Ext4 file system scan: removed duplicate files found in folder to make it more useful for data recovery
– In raw recovery: added built-in support for some less common audio formats (FLAC, AMR)
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.11.1
– Fixed critical issue with parallel access to disks (caused by an unexpected behaviour of device handle duplication API)
– Fixed crash bug issue caused by decoding of some malformed MPEG4 video frames (for purposes of ‘preview’)
– Added support of ‘still frame preview’ for more video formats
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.11
– MacOS version: Fixed bug with software crash after the scan (after updated to macOS 15 SDK)
– Added support of DFL-DE sector maps (both plain and compact) plus log file of other software with disk imaging capabilities
– Fixed issue with using of wrong disk if source disk is disconnected and replaced with a different one
– When source disk is reconnected to a different device path, the software attempts to restore connection by finding the disk by its serial (when possible)
– Reworked scan abortion procedure to allow much faster scan abortion on an area of defect blocks
NTFS scan procedure:
– More detailed parsing of directory indexes for better recovery of file names
– Optimization for better support of file ‘undelete’ after deletion by the Linux NTFS driver
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.10
Reworked RAID10/RAID1E support:
– Added support of multiple data copies in rotation: from two and up to number of disks
– Added support of ‘Far’ and ‘0+1’ rotations in addition to Near/Interleaved (or ‘Offset’/’Near’ in terms of mdadm)
Automatic RAID builder:
– Reworked assembly algorithm to fix an issue that prevented automatic building of RAIDs with some metadata damage scenarios
– Added support of RAID metadata ‘last updated’ time (when available) for selection of more recent components to build the RAID
– Removed automatic adding of ‘incompletely rebuilt’ components (when it’s possible to identify them)
MDADM RAID:
– Added support of metadata timestamp and ‘incomplete rebuild’ flag (both metadata versions 0.9 and 1.x)
– ‘Reshape in progress’ scenario is now also supported by combining already reshaped and pending areas
– Added proper support for ‘Offset’/’Near’/’Far’ RAID 10 rotations with multiple data copies
Intel MSM: fixed issue with recognition of RAID10/1E configurations
Update to procedure of automatic partition detection:
– Implemented additional checks to distinguish between partially overwritten GPT and MBR formats
– Added more checks to quickly detect lost/deleted partitions, now including BitLocker (when possible)
Manual partition search tool: optimized speed and fixed issue skipping existing partitions for ‘free space’-only scan
Storage properties panel: added display of RAID metadata last modified timestamp (when available) to check for ‘outdated’ components
Image viewer: fixed a bug with displaying JPEG with present, but empty EXIF
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.9
Microsoft Storage Spaces:
– Fixed issue parsing volume metadata (record version 10)
– Fixed a bug with automatic updates to the ‘dual parity’ volumes when additional (missing) components are added
MDADM RAID metadata format:
– Added automatic recognition of dedicated parity configurations (‘parity frst’/’parity last’ rotations) for both RAID5 and RAID6
– Also added recognition and full support of RAID6 with RAID5-style rotation and dedicated parity (like ‘left-symmetric-6’, ‘parity-first-6’ etc. chemas)
Ext3/Ext4 scan:
– Added support of journal checksum feature (for better deleted data recovery)
– Enabled EXT4 B-tree search for attempted recovery of big deleted files
Fixed bug with data access errors on ‘trasformed’ (decrypted, byte-swapped etc.) in certain scanirios with transformation block size over one sector
Fixed bug with creation of image files in VHDX format
Linux software version in save/open dialogs now shows connected media from /media/USER_NAME subfolders
ReFS3 file system scan:
– Fixed bug with indexing procedure (incorrect location of indexed files)
– Added support of ‘hard-links’ in ReFS scan result.
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.8
– In VHDX/AVHDX format: added support of embedded log (transaction journal) to support ‘virtual’ log replay in case of ‘dirty’ virtual disk detachment
– When scan result is restored to a different offset (from a disk/partition context menu) a confirmation warning message now appears
– In file system direct access mode: added a function to calculate and show capacities of subfolders (size and count of files inside)
– Added support of NVMe SMART reporting in software version for Linux OS
– ZFS file system (direct access): modified file ‘open’ procedure to support delayed loading of metadata and speed-up opening of large files
– ReFS file system: added support of ‘resident’ files for both ‘Access’ and ‘Scan’ (small files stored in metadata with file system format 3.14 or later)
– FAT/FAT32 scan
– Removed some ‘junk’ objects that can appear during ‘indexing’ stage of scan
– Added support of older SONY camera style file deletion (indication with zero instead of E5h byte)
– In embedded viewer: added support of PDF documents in ‘version 2’ format and fixed few PDF format-related issues
In raw recovery:
– Added detection of PDF in format version 2
– Fixed bug that caused some PDF files to be classified by mistake as Adobe Illustrator (AI) files
– Added search for ‘real’ file size of PDF and AI documents (when possible)
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.7.1
– Drobo support: fixed issue with reading RAID when total data size on the storage exceeds 16TB
Added support of work with disk WWN IDs:
– Software now reads and displays Device ID (WWN) of SATA drives on disk properties panel;
– For SAS drives Device ID, Port ID and Target ID WWNs are displayed;
– When disk is imaged to SDLSP format, WWNs are saved (preserved) and also can be displayed for such SDLSP files
– ReFS file system: updated both scan and direct access modules to support the latest ReFS 3.14
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.7
– Enabled write support for ‘span’ constructions and ‘chunked’ VMDK files
– Added VMDK format as a supported target format for the Disk Imager
– Virtual disk size limit for VMDK images is set to 128EB (instead of 8TB in VMware GUI)
– Also added support of legacy VHD format as an output format for Disk Imager (for sources with capacity below 2040GB)
– Added support of importing defect maps in RSM format
– In ‘Save selection (advanced)’ dialog added the possibility to fine-tune certain copying parameters to override temporary the global software settings
– Also added possibility to set up copying ‘with the full path from the root’
– Added ‘Save with full path’ tool to the context menu of individual files
Symbolic links support:
– Fixed a bug causing truncation of long symbolic links
– In object properties GUI: now symbolic link is displayed fully, with no truncation
On XFS file system:
– Added support of ‘long date’ feature for both ‘access’ and ‘scan’
– Fixed bug with ‘dirty’ short symbolic links
– Added support of long symbolic links in older (plain) format
FAT32 scan: fixed bug with folder structure reconstruction when there are multiple deleted files and file system indexing is enabled
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.6
– 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.)
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 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
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.4
– 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)
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.3
– 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
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.2
– ‘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’
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 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)
– 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’)
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 10.0
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 configuratios on some controllers
Fixed several quality-related issues in raw recovery
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery 9.18
– 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.