Active@ File Recovery

LSoft Technologies Active@ File Recovery

Active@ File Recovery for Windows provides the ability to effectively detect and recover files and disks lost due to accidental deletion, disk formatting, virus and other reasons.

The Professional package also includes integrated Active@ Disk Editor (or Hex Viewer - a utility for low-level data inspection), Virtual RAID re-constructor, being able to recover damaged RAID disk arrays, and File Organizer needed to re-organize and rename files detected by their signatures.

The Ultimate edition extends the Professional package with Active@ Boot Disk Lite: an ISO image that you can use to create a bootable CD/DVD or USB with a lightweight version of Windows 7(WinPE 3.1) or Linux (openSUSE 13) running in RAM. It is the only way to recover your data when your system is not bootable and you cannot attach the corrupted Hard Disk Drive to another machine. Supplied Linux LiveCD boots the latest UEFI secure boot systems & regular BIOS.

Key Features:

Recovers from damaged Microsoft FAT/exFAT, NTFS/NTFS+EFS, XFS, Apple HFS+, Unix UFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/BtrFS file systems

Supports FDD / HDD / IDE / SATA / eSATA / SCSI / SSD disks / RAID disk arrays, USB Flash Disks and Memory Cards, External USB drives and USB3 disks

Recovers extra-large, compressed, encrypted and fragmented files on NTFS, just deleted files can be recovered based on NTFS Journal ($LogFile)

Creates and Recovers from Raw (sector-by-sector copy), Raw-Compressed images and disk images created by third parties

Added "Last Chance" recovery method for detecting files by their signatures when no other methods work

Active@ Scan technology allows you to recognize files based on file signatures for the following 147 file types: Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, …

Data Recovery on unbootable due to a computer crash, virus attack, damage by malicious program, or power failure PCs (Ultimate package)

Ultimate package includes Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD, being able to boot all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems

Efficient & easy to use recovery utility for deleted, damaged or lost files, even if your PC doesn't boot

New Features:

 

Added recovery of Microsoft ReFS and Linux/Unix JFS file systems, in addition to previously supported Microsoft NTFS/FAT/exFAT, Unix UFS/XFS, Apple HFS+ and Linux Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/BtrFS

 

Added "Last Chance" recovery method for detecting files by signatures when no other methods work

 

Added 8 more built-in file signatures (Archives, Images, Music&Videos), totalling 155 types. User-defined signatures can be created via simple scripting

 

Support for Raw (sector-by-sector copy), Raw-Compressed images and disk images created by third parties and manually composed from several chunks

 

Support for disks created by VMWare & VirtualPC: open and work with virtual disks as if they are regular HDDs

 

Support for multi-tasking: user can QuickScan found volumes and recover data while SuperScan is in progress

 

SuperScan progress: displays a map of scanned sectors and found meta-data while scanning

 

Configuration parameters stored locally and re-loaded upon next use

 

Recovers from virtually connected volumes, like BitLocker-attached & TrueCrypt encrypted disks

 

New Ultimate package now includes Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD, being able to boot all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems

 

Re-implemented most file signatures detection algorithms: signatures detection speed increased 20% to 30%, and more internal attributes being extracted

Integrated Active@ Disk Editor (Hex Viewer) being able to inspect disk data on a sector-level

 

Support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) including snapshots, and Windows Logical Disk Manager(LDM) including nested volumes

 

SuperScan process displays various details, including sector info, time elapsed and time remaining, as well as found meta-data

 

Support for large HDDs having 4096 byte sector size

 

Keyboard shortcuts added — many operations can be performed without use of a mouse

 

Full support for multi-language character sets (Unicode), recovers files names containing non-Latin symbols

 

Reconstructs and recovers severely damaged MFT records on NTFS file system

Features

The latest version 16:

More pre-defined file signatures recognition: AI, ACCDB, OST, DB3, VCPROJ, USER, SVG, FBR

Support for Microsoft's new generation ReFS file system volume scan & data recovery

Support for Linux/Unix JFS file system scan & recovery

Recovery of fragmented files by signatures (MOV/MP4)

Redesigned User Interface: dockable dialogs, semi-transparent popups

Full support for HiDPI monitors (large screen resolutions)

Improvements in XFS / Ext4 filesystems recovery

Significantly optimized SuperScan speed and memory consumption

Version 15 features:

Added more pre-defined file signatures recognition: AC3, MSG, 3DS, MAX, DXF, CMX, AMV, 4XM, 4XA, EPS, XZ, LZ4, BZ2, JP2, M2V, MTS, FDB

Added file system's metadata display: $FILE & $INDX file records for NTFS, $DIR Directory entries for FAT/FAT32

Added support for XFS file system data recovery

Added support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partitioning and data recovery

Improved Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM) support for nested volumes

Improved display for HiDPI monitors and large resolutions

Improvements in UI and data recovery algorithms

Ultimate package: the latest Active@ Boot Disk (64-bit) and Active@ LiveCD (64-bit)

Version 14 features:

Added more pre-defined file signatures recognition: 3D Systems .STL, Adobe Effects .AEP, CD/DVD/BD Image .ISO, AutoCAD .DWG, Maxon Cinema .C4D, OpenOffice .ODG, .ODP, .ODS, .ODB, .ODF

Increased speed & performance of recognizing files by their signatures

Improved Linux Ext2\Ext3\Ext4 file systems scanning performance

Added option to skip next sectors while disk scanning, in case if bad sectors detected

Improved recovery of just deleted files, based on NTFS Journal ($LogFile)

Minor improvements in user interface and data recovery algorithms

Ultimate package includes Windows-based Active@ Boot Disk (WinPE 5.1 x64) and Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD (OpenSUSE 13 x86 & x64), being able to boot all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems

...and more:

Photos recovery, pictures recovery if they were deleted from flash media, or lost due to formatting a memory card

Large disks and disk arrays (RAID) supported (large than 2TB)

Data Recovery on unbootable due to a computer crash, virus attack, damage by malicious program, or power failure PCs (Ultimate package)

Recovers from damaged Microsoft FAT/exFAT, NTFS/NTFS+EFS, Apple HFS+, Unix UFS/XFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/BtrFS/XFS file systems

File Organizer for files detected by signatures allows to re-organize files in folders tree, rename files based on the internal attributes and preview re-organized data before actual recovery occurs (Professional packages)

Recovery for all Windows versions supported

Recovers deleted files from damaged, formatted or reformatted partitions

File recovery for files and documents that have been lost by disk formatting, damaged by virus attack, or a power failure

Partition recovery after disk partition(s) loss / deletion / re-format / physical damage on FAT, exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, XFS, ExtFs and BtrFs

Raw Disk Image (sector-by-sector copy) & Raw Compressed Disk Image creation for future data analysis and data recovery from the image

Supports hardware RAID disk arrays virtual reconstruction. RAID data recovery (Professional packages)

Full support for multi-language character sets (Unicode), recovers files and folders having names containing not only Latin characters

Different types of drive scan: QuickScan (Fast), SuperScan (Slow), and Last Chance recovery

SuperScan technology recognizes 135 file types by signatures and sorts them in folders 

The software is not strictly limited to finding these specific file types. Custom file signatures can be defined using simple scripting language. When the logical structure of a hard drive is heavily corrupted, this signature scan will use a special algorithm to seek out such files. Under typical file deletion or formatting of a hard drive, a regular scan is sufficient to reveal files of ANY type.