File Scavenger Data Recovery Utility

File Scavenger is a file-undelete and data-recovery utility. It can recover files accidentally deleted from Windows Explorer, the Recycle Bin, the command line window, or a network shared folder with the original folder name and dates. It can also recover reformatted or deleted partitions, broken spanned volumes, or failed RAID/NAS/SAN devices. It is very effective in recovering digital photos on almost all media.

File Scavenger 5.1 supports the following file systems: Windows: NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, exFAT. Linux: ext3, ext4, UFS1, UFS2, XFS, ZFS. Apple: HFS+. Virtual file systems: VMFS, VMDK, VHD and VHDX.

What is new in this release:

Version 5.1:

• The new 64-bit version can scan a volume with an unlimited number of files.
• Improved recovery of the ZFS file system and RAID-Z (single and double parity). ZFS is an open-source file system and logical volume manager used in NAS devices (e.g. FreeNAS) and high-performance servers.
• Improved recovery of PDF documents in raw mode.
• Improved recovery of the 64-bit ext4 file system.

What is new in version 4.3:

Version 4.3

• Support for the ZFS file system and RAID-Z (single and double parity). ZFS is an open-source file system and logical volume manager used in NAS devices (e.g. FreeNAS) and high-performance servers.
• Support for the ReFS file systems. ReFS or Resilient File System is Microsoft's next generation file system for the Windows platforms.
• Support for RAID 6.
• Implementing custom RAID. Custom RAID is used when special algorithms is needed to reconstruct data.
• Raw recovery for Canon RAW Image (.CR2) and Material Exchange Format (.MXF) files.
• Improved raw recovery for Office documents.
• Streamlining the Advanced Volumes dialogs.

Limitations:

64KB file size recovery trial