Download the latest version of Raise Data Recovery

* 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.

* 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.

* Update to procedure of automatic partition detection;

* Image viewer: fixed a bug with displaying JPEG with present, but empty EXIF.

* 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;.

* 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.

* ReFS file system: added support of 'resident' files for both 'Access' and 'Scan' (small files stored in metadata with file systme 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).

* On XFS file system: added support of 'long date' feature;

* FAT32 scan: fixed bug with folder structure reconstruction when there are multiple deleted files and file system indexing is enabled.

* Fixed scan issue that caused incorrect file system sub-trees reconstruction on Linux/Unix file systems (EXT, XFS etc.).

* 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.

* 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).

* 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.

* 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;

* In Explorer, introduced additional 'yellow' state for files found with 'raw recovery'.

* Reworked support of ReFS file system.

* Significant changes in the software licensing scheme:

• The licensing options have been simplified to a single Personal License that covers all supported file systems and other storage technologies;
• Added two variants of the software updates period to choose from: Short-Term Support (30 days of free updates) and Long-Term Support (360 days of free updates);

* Enhancements to the user interface:

• Several optimizations in the program's GUI (Storages navigation area, Explorer, and other GUI elements);
• Automatic adaptation to the system "dark mode" settings under Windows and macOS;

* Reworked scan procedure:

• Added support for a "quick" scan of the available file system metadata to save time and memory;
• Added an option to select the preferred scanning mode;
• Added displaying of the approximate number of found files (categorized by file type);

* In the Explorer dialog for scan results:

• Multiple scan result items have been consolidated to a single scan result that corresponds to the scanned source;
• Added automatic sorting of the scan results to folders according to the file type (photos and pictures, documents, audio, video files and others).

* 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);

* Fixed issue displaying color progressive (one scan per component) JPEG images as greyscale.

* 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.

* Some rework of Explorer interface;

* EXT3/4 file systems:

• Faster (optimized) processing of file system journal - by caching it to memory;
• Faster 'open' for existing big EXT3-4 volumes;

* 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.

* 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.

* HFS+ scan: better reconstruction of lost folder names from journal;

* ExFAT scan: removed duplicate 'green'/'yellow' file systems in result.

* XFS file system scan: fixed couple of issues with save/resume scan and deleted file names recovery;

* 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.

* Update to FAT32 scan: better file system recovery when superblocks are lost AND FAT tables are damaged.

* Fixed few bugs related to XFS file system scan;

* Updated HFS+ scan procedure to support file system recovery when main metadata locations are wiped.

* NTFS file system: fixed issue with support of very fragmented files when the FileName attribute is outside of the main MFT entry;

* GUI related updates.

* ExFAT scan: added processing of CheckDisk .CHK files (when possible), fixed few more issues;

* Raw recovery scan: found and fixed 'scan stuck' issue.

* ExFAT scan: fixed issue with recognition of previous cluster size after format;

* F2FS file system: added support of 'extra attributes' flag.

* Reworked FAT/FAT32 quick scan/indexing procedure for better support of damaged folders;

* In embedded file viewer:

• - Added support of HEIC/HEIF photo format (Canon R5/R6, Apple products etc.);
• - Added decoding of Fujifilm 14bit 'packed' RAF format (models X-A3, X-A7 etc.);
• - Added decompression of Fujifilm compressed RAF format (models X-T2, X-T3, X-E3, X-H1 etc.);
• - Defined configurations for many other raw photo formats.

* Raw recovery and tool for re-assigning file extensions are extended with more types;

* Fujifilm RAW photos format (RAF):

• - Added extraction of file size, camera 'model name' and 'date taken' in raw recovery;
• - Fixed issue with file separation to 'preview' and 'tiff' when it is detected by content;

* MacOS HFS+ file system:

• - Enhanced procedure of damaged file system reconstruction and deleted data recovery;
• - Fixed issue with direct access to highly fragmented file system.

* Added indication of folder capacity in scan result;

* Added indication of file status in scan result;

* Support of hard links on NTFS, APFS, HFS+, Ext, F2FS, Reiser, UFS and XFS;

* Added automatic deduplication of duplicate hard links;

* Added support of duplicate file/folder hard links in scan result;

* APFS direct access:

• File system state is now loaded using the latest generation of stored superblock;
• Added support of file system snapshots, including 'local' and 'backup' Time Machine;
• Loading of file set is postponed until it is first used (for performance reasons);

* APFS scan: better structure recovery and finding of lost snapshots in full scan;

* HFS+ scan: added support of hardlinks (including Time Machine);

* Preserving 'Hidden' and 'System' flags on copied files (Windows version);

* XFS scan: fixed few major bugs with structure recovery in full scan;

* Older ReFS (Windows Server 2012): fixed few bugs in scan procedure;

* ExFAT scan: support of 1MB clusters, fixed few issues.

* ReFS support is extended with new version found on Windows Server 2022 preview;

* Fixed several bugs.

* ReFS: Support of symbolic links;

* Added quick detection of lost partitions at 'standard' offsets;

* Support of storages with physical sector size 1 and 2 KB.

* Enabled access and lost data recovery from Windows Server ReFS.

* NTFS: support of more scenarios for file information recovery from LogFile;

* FAT16: fixed problem with recognition of root folder in non-indexed full scan;

* ExFAT file system scan:

• Processing of tails of overwritten folders (in full and quick (indexing) scans);
• Result is filtered to remove junk objects that may appear from damaged folders;

* Fixed bug with file system structure recovery when intermediate folders are lost;

* Fixed read/quick scan of HFS+ with 'overflowed' fragmentation of Catalog File;

* Software version for macOS:

• Adopted and optimized GUI to specifics of Big Sur (macOS 11);
• Software optimization for better translation to ARM64 (Apple M1) via Rosetta.

* Support of restoring extended file attributes from Windows/Linux/Mac;

* XFS file system: added support of multi-block directory clusters.

* Added 'read' support of UDF file system;

* Restoring RWX 'owner' permissions under Linux and Mac.

* NTFS file system:

• Added procedure of files recovery using $LogFile content;
• Blocked copying of non-synchronized files from OneDrive;

* Fixed bug with copying error when source to target is copied root to root.

* ExFAT scan procedure:

• Additional procedure for finding previous file system align after storage re-partitioning;
• Reduced number of 'found file systems' with wrong align;

* NTFS: enabled direct file system access when DATA attribute is damaged;

* HFS+ file system:

• Fixed few bugs preventing detection of several partitions during single scan;
• Reduced memory use by better isolation of files between found file systems instances;

* Fixed several problems in software versions for macOS:

• Fixed crash bug in copying procedure when popup dialog window have to appear;
• Fixed rare bug causing dialog sheet to 'stuck';
• Fixed problem of displaying some auxiliary UI captions;
• Added software notarization for macOS version 10.14 and later.

* Modified handling of APFS metadata damage to show more structure when tree is damaged;

* Raw recovery:

• 'Title' is now recovering as file name for .html and .wpl formats;
• Added title and date extraction from ODT/ODS/ODP document files;
• Fixed crash bug on invalid exe-file data.

* Modified handling of APFS metadata damage to show more structure when tree is damaged;

* Raw recovery:

• 'Title' is now recovering as file name for .html and .wpl formats;
• Added title and date extraction from ODT/ODS/ODP document files;
• Fixed crash bug on invalid exe-file data.

* Reworked procedure of deleted files recovery from EXT3/EXT4 file systems;

* Updated format of 'scan status database' and 'virtual file system' files;

* Photo viewer adopted for new digital camera raw formats of:

• CANON EOS-1D X Mark III, EOS 250D; Fuji GFX 100, X-Pro3, X100V, X-T4;
• Nikon D780, Z5; Panasonic DC-G100, DC-TZ95, DC-G90, DC-G95, DC-GX880;
• Sony DSC-RX100 VII, a7R IV, a6100, a9 II; Olympus TG-6 etc.

* Raw recovery:

• Added file name generation for .contact, .vcf, .fb2 files;
• Recovery of name (Original/Internal) and build date from Windows executables;
• Adjustment of file size for EXE/DLL/SYS files to match size of sections and signature;

* Speed-up of properties (preview) extraction for Windows executable files.

* EXT file system: speed up of journal processing at completion stage;

* XFS file system: optimization of indexing procedure;

* APFS file system:

• Added support of Apple extended attributes for direct access;
• Added support of basic (resident) attributes in scan result;

* HFS+ file system:

• Speed up of file system indexing;
• Fixed bug reading extended attributes in direct access mode;

* Apple extended attributes and resource forks:

• Support of saving them to NTFS/ReFS named data streams for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP);
• Attribute storage in scan result was moved one level deeper in folder structure;

* Raw recovery: support of more types and several enhancements.

* Rework of NTFS scan procedure:

• In part of 'red' file systems - for memory use reduction;
• Extraction of some missing file system structure elements from Log File (Journal);

* Fixed several bugs causing software crash;

* Enabled displaying of system/hidden files.

* New installation options for macOS and Linux;

* Changes in the software licensing:

• Removed limitations on saving the results of 'raw' recovery with the trial license;
• The licensing options are reduced to three license types (Windows Support License, macOS Support License, Linux Support License);
• Work with RAID (including Apple, mdadm, Windows dynamic disks, etc.) doesn't require a separate license;

* Added software events log;

* Expanded log on saving the scan results with more information about the saved files and saving errors;

* Added error notification for bad blocks on disks;

* Significant optimization of NTFS and HFS+ scan.

* Fixed bugs in FAT recovery module:

• Removed record attributes verification for Volume Name entry;
• Fixed bug with reconstruction of fragmented files when second FAT table is damaged.

* Modified procedure of classification of found MFT entries from unlinked MFT chunks.

* Fixed bug with FAT file system quick scan.

* Optimization of HFS+ scan result set.

* Optimized file systems detection procedure by number of read requests;

* Extended detection of certain file systems using backup copies of superblock.

* Added Spanish software interface language;

* Fixed bug reading legacy HFS volumes;

* Added extra search for folder name entries for EXT file system;

* Update to PDF viewer: added support of buggy files with shifted xref table.

* Support of NTFS storages with cluster size over 64KB.

* Modifications to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure:

• Fixed bug with file system indexing and zero-size files;
• Better detection of deleted file entries with Asian/OEM encodings;
• Enabled support of duplication of deleted entries when they are in different folders.

* Fixed issues with recovery of NTFS folder structure (when 'indexing' is available).

* Major rework of NTFS scan procedure:

• Added old/duplicated objects removal from scan result;
• Better processing of lost files (with descriptors out of MFT);
• Changed priorities of file names processing;
• Fixed bug in folder structure recovery by INDX entries;
• Fixed bug with scan resumption and calling Recycle Bin processing;
• Added support of Recycle Bin indexes with version 2.

* Added Portuguese software interface language.

* Added NTFS tail scan to file system indexing stage.

* Reworked scan procedure for ExFAT (for better handling of deleted records).

* Added support of "CLOUD" reparse points on NTFS (files from OneDrive etc.).

* Fixed problem with ExFAT root folder validation during full-disk scan.

* Reworked LVM module (adapted to LVM 2.2 with DM RAID);

* Update to embedded viewer.

* Significant update to APFS file system scan procedure;

* Update to embedded viewer.

* Better handling of APFS after unclean shutdown.

* Fixed problem processing EXT directories with block size over 32KB.

* Added few more formats for raw recovery procedure.

* Added more formats for raw recovery procedure;

* Detection of valid size for TIFF/QTFF formats (TIF, NEF, CR2, MOV, MP4 etc.).

* Updated data recovery procedure for exFAT file system

* Few bugs fixed in scan result handling procedure

* Fixed problem reading expanded EXT-formatted volumes (classic+meta GD);

* Fixed reading of large EXT folders after massive file deletion (when whole blocks are released).

* Enhanced recovery quality from exFAT file system.

* Fixed issue with reconstruction of damaged root folder on FAT32.

* One more enhancement to NTFS file system reconstruction after scan;

* Significantly enhanced reconstruction of Apple APFS file system.

* Enhanced structure reconstruction on NTFS file system after scan.

* Added support of several new camera RAW formats (including new Canon CR3).

* Fixed data recovery on FAT with zero file creation dates;

* Added thumbnail preview for certain video file formats.

* Fixed problem with GPT partition recognition on 4K-block disks.

* Byte-accurate recognition of file size for JPG and MTS formats with raw recovery;

* Excluded bad JPG files from result;

* Displaying of partially damaged progressive JPG files.

* Fixed software bug that may happen when handling EXT file system with specific superblock damage.

* Support of opening EXT file system with group descriptor damage.

* Fixed support of Apple software RAID.

* Fixed few issues with Apple APFS file system scan quality.

* Mac File System Support is extended with Apple APFS file system.

* Applied modification to FAT32 scan procedure (related to car DVR);

* Few minor bugs fixed (related to internal resources leak).

* Enhanced raw recovery procedure for certain picture formats based on TIFF (including camera raw photos);

* Fixed some problems and extended support of camera raw photos by embedded viewer.

* Option to skip file system scan to revise existing file system contents;

* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.

* Support of HFS+ hardlinks in file system access mode.

* Fixed problem with expanded EXT4 (meta_bg).

* Added support for PDF, EXE and some other formats in embedded viewer.

* Fixed bug with memory overflow in certain scenarios when scanning Ext4 file system;

* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.

* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.

* Better damaged FAT/FAT32 recovery in certain scenarios.

* Better deleted data reconstruction on XFS file system in certain scenarios.

* Massive update to file type-based data recovery (raw recovery).

* Extended supported formats by embedded image viewer (DICOM, Camera RAW);

* Scan result now defaults to "All files"

* Other minor updates.

* Support of automatic connection to network shared folders under Windows 10;

* Better data recovery results under 'found by type' files;

* More photo formats supported by file viewer.

* Separation of deleted and normal data in scan results;

* Rework of different elements of user interface;

* More informative and clear user interface with brighter and bigger fonts.

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version

a discontinued software version