What's new in Active@ File Recovery 24.0.2
Feb 8, 2024
- New Recovery Kernel version 14.1.17
- New SuperScan option: Reconstruct disks having different physical sector size
- New SuperScan option: Reconstruct devices starting with non-zero offset in sector
- Improved recovery volumes clusters size > 64Kb
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Improved Boot Disk Creator – added Display Scaling and Network Resource mapping
- The latest Active@ Boot Disk based on WinPE 10.0.25398.1 (Windows Server 23H2 code base)
New in Active@ File Recovery 23.0.2 (Jul 17, 2023)
- Improved support of NTFS partitions with large cluster size
- Improved support of disks with 4096 bytes sectors
New in Active@ File Recovery 23.0.0 (Mar 30, 2023)
- Improved recovery of NTFS volumes formatted with large cluster size
- Latest recovery kernel contains many improvements
- Upgraded to Qt framework version 5.12.5 and Platform Kit v143
- Active@ Boot Disk - WinPE upgraded to Windows 11 22H2 base
- Boot Disk Creator can store configuration for WIM PXE boot
New in Active@ File Recovery 22.0.8 (Jan 11, 2023)
- Added new predefined file signatures recognition:
- Adobe iWork Pages (PAGES)
- Apple iWork Numbers (NUMBERS)
- Apple iWork Keynotes (KEY)
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes
- Ultimate package: improved Bootable Disk Creator
- Ultimate package: Active@ Boot Disk switched to the latest WinPE v.10 based on Windows 11 v21H2 code base
New in Active@ File Recovery 22.0.7 (Oct 21, 2022)
- Improved Bootable Disk Creator.
- Active@ Boot Disk switched to the latest WinPE v.10 based on Windows 11 v21H2 code.
- New file signatures recognition:
- Apple iWork Pages (PAGES)
- Apple iWork Numbers (NUMBERS)
- Apple iWork Keynotes (KEY)
- Bug fixes and other improvements.
New in Active@ File Recovery 21.0.1 (Nov 25, 2020)
- Simplified and improved User Interface
- Latest Recovery Kernel includes improvements and bug fixes
- Ultimate version: Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to the latest WinPE based on Windows 10 build 2004
- Ultimate version: Active@ LiveCD upgraded to openSUSE 15.2: Linux Kernel 5.3, KDE 5.18
New in Active@ File Recovery 20.1.1 (Oct 24, 2020)
- Latest Recovery Kernel includes improvements and bug fixes
- Minor improvements in user interface
- Ultimate version: Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 10 build 2004
New in Active@ File Recovery 20.0.0 (Apr 23, 2020)
- Added recovery of new Apple’s ApFS file system
- Re-implemented recovery of Microsoft ReFS file system to get more stable & reliable code
- Latest Recovery Kernel including many improvements & minor bug fixes
- Ultimate package: the latest Active@ Boot Disk utilities & Boot Disk Creator
- Ultimate package: Active@ Live now supports PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks
- Added new pre-defined file signatures recognition:
- Ancestral Quest Database File (AQ)
- LibreOffice Documents (ODT, ODG, ODP, OPDS, ODF, ODB)
- WPS Office Documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX)
New in Active@ File Recovery 19.0.8 (Nov 12, 2019)
- New file signatures recognition: Canon Raw Image File (CR3)
- Finale Notation File (MUSX)
- Improved NTFS recovery on volumes located in Windows Storage Spaces
- Improved recovery of disks with 4KB (4096 bytes) sector size
- Improved software stability working with failing disks
- Latest Recovery Kernel
New in Active@ File Recovery 18.0.2 (Nov 5, 2018)
- New Easy Recovery Mode – simplifies lost files search and data recovery on live volumes
- Added more pre-defined file signatures recognition:
- Microsoft Office Documents (ONE, PUB)
- MySQL Database Files (IBD, FRM, MYI)
- Oracle VirtualBox Image (VDI)
- Betacase Client Info (BCB)
- Ultimate package: The latest Active@ Boot Disk & Active@ LiveCD with Boot Disk Creator improvements
New in Active@ File Recovery 17.0.1 (Jan 31, 2018)
- More pre-defined file signatures recognition: Microsoft SQL Server Databases (MDF), Virtual Hard Drive Files (VHDX)
- Support for Microsoft's ReFS versions 3.x file system data recovery
- Improvements in Linux/Unix JFS and XFS file systems data recovery
- Improved handling of dynamic virtual disk arrays: Microsoft’s LDM & Linux’s LVM
- Improved software stability while working with damaged disks
- Improvements in Windows Storage Spaces partitions handling
- Data recovery for ReFS file system having non-standard sector sizes: 1024, 2048 & 4096 bytes
- Improved Custom Signatures scripting for user templates creation to search deleted file by their signatures
- Professional & Ultimate packages: the latest Active@ Disk Editor version 7 included
- Ultimate package: Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 10 x64 base, Active@ LiveCD switched to KDE5 base
New in Active@ File Recovery 16.0.8 (Apr 6, 2017)
- Added 17 more pre-defined signatures recognition
- Added filesystem's metadata display for NTFS / FAT
- Improved display for HiDPI monitors and large resolution screens
New in Active@ File Recovery 16.0.5 (Jan 22, 2017)
- More pre-defined file signatures recognition: AI, ACCDB, OST, DB3, VCPROJ, USER, SVG, FBR
- Support for Microsoft's new generation ReFS file system scan & data recovery
- Support for Linux/Unix JFS file system scan & data 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
- New security based on software registration and activation
New in Active@ File Recovery 15.0.5 (Mar 7, 2016)
- 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 Linux/Unix XFS file system scan & data recovery
- Added support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partitioning and recovery
- Improved Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM) support for nested volumes
- Improved display for HiDPI monitors and large resolution screens
- Improvements in user interface and in data recovery algorithms
- Ultimate package: the latest Active@ Boot Disk and improved Boot Disk Creator
- Ultimate package: the latest Active@ LiveCD (64-bit) with updated drivers and new utilities
New in Active@ File Recovery 14.5.0 (May 13, 2015)
- More pre-defined file signatures recognition: OpenOffice Spreadsheet .ODS, Database .ODB, Formula .ODF, Graphic .ODG & Presentation .ODP
- Improved Linux Ext2\Ext3\Ext4 file systems scanning performance
- Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor 6
- Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 5.1 64-bit (x64) base which performs faster & optimizes RAM usage
- Active@ Boot Disk now being able to boot the latest UEFI Secure Boot systems
New in Active@ File Recovery 14.1.0 (Feb 25, 2015)
- More pre-defined file signatures recognition: AutoCAD Drawing Database .DWG, Maxon Cinema 4D .C4D
- Improved SuperScan progress display on Vista and later Windows versions
- Minor improvements in user interface and bug fixes
- Ultimate version: the latest Active@ LiveCD utilities and PDF documentation
New in Active@ File Recovery 14.0.1 (Jan 19, 2015)
- Added more pre-defined file signatures recognition: 3D Systems .STL, Adobe Effects .AEP, CD/DVD/BD Image .ISO, AutoCAD .DWG, Maxon Cinema 4D .C4D
- Increased speed & performance of recognizing files by their signatures
- Added option to skip next sectors while disk scanning, in case if bad sectors detected
- Improved recovery of files just deleted (based on analysis of NTFS $LogFile Journal)
- Minor improvements in user interface and data recovery algorithms
- Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor 5, being able to browse disks and preview files
- Ultimate version: the latest Active@ LiveCD utilities and PDF documentation
New in Active@ File Recovery 13.1.1 (Sep 17, 2014)
- Added "Last Chance" recovery method for detecting files by signatures
- Added recovery of files from Linux BtrFS file system
- Added recovery of 26 more pre-defined file signatures: eBooks, Adobe Flash, Real Audio, Archives: MXF, MKV, GIF, LIT, RMF, WVC, OGG, RB, ARC, AIF, FB2, PSD, AU, 7Z, FLIC, FLAC, APE, MEF, AAC, ZOO, TAR, PCX, F4V, FLV, MMF, SRW
- Improved processing of internal attributes for signatures: MID, MRW, RAF, X3F, PDF, RA, RM, RMVB
- Re-implemented most signatures to speed up their detection process (up to ~20%-30%)
- New Ultimate package now includes Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD, being able to boot all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems
New in Active@ File Recovery 12.0.3 (Jan 18, 2014)
- File Recovery: added 64-bit executable which scans disks much faster and optimizes memory usage on x64 platforms; files detected by Signatures can be organized (sorted, viewed and placed in folders) by attributes before recovery;
New in Active@ File Recovery 11.0.5 (Jun 25, 2013)
- File Recovery: supports Unix UFS, Linux Ext4;
- Improved navigation & styles
- Integrated Disk Viewer/Editor
- Custom signatures defined.
New in Active@ File Recovery 10.0.5 (Jan 15, 2013)
- File Recovery:
- Support for exFAT, Ext2/Ext3fs, HFS+ file systems
- Support for 4096 byte sector size HDDs
- Support for RAW-Compressed images and RAW images manually composed from several chunks
- Support for VMWARE & VirtualPC
- HDD images:
- Open and work as with regular HDDs
New in Active@ File Recovery 9.0.3 (Mar 12, 2012)
- File Recovery: Support for exFAT file system
- Support for 4096 byte sector size HDDs
- Support for RAW-Compressed images and RAW images manually composed from several chunks
- Support for VMWARE & VirtualPC HDD images: open and work as with regular HDDs.
New in Active@ File Recovery 8.0.1 (May 5, 2011)
- File Recovery now comes with updated Windows PE (now based on Windows 7 SP1) with improved speed and hardware support.
New in Active@ File Recovery 7.5.3 (Jan 7, 2011)
- Recover deleted files and folders from an emptied recycle bin
- Recover files that have been lost by formatting, damaged by virus attack, a malicious program, or a power failure
- Data recovery after disk partitions loss / format / damage
- Data recovery when the hard drive disks are damaged