UNFORMAT Changelog

What's new in UNFORMAT 22.0.0.0

Mar 23, 2022
  • Added Apple iWork Pages (PAGES) file signatures recognition
  • Added Apple iWork Numbers (NUMBERS) file signatures recognition
  • Added Apple iWork Keynotes (KEY) file signatures recognition
  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes
  • Professional package - improved Bootable Disk Creator and Active@ Boot Disk switched to the latest WinPE based on Windows 11 v21H2 code base

New in UNFORMAT 10.0.1.0 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • Latest Recovery Kernel including many improvements and bug fixes
  • The latest Boot Disk Creator & Boot Disk utilities
  • New pre-defined file signatures: Ancestral Quest Database File, LibreOffice
  • Documents, WPS Office Documents
  • Recovery of new Apple’s ApFS
  • Re-implemented recovery of Microsoft ReFS

New in UNFORMAT 10.0.0 (Apr 23, 2020)

  • More pre-defined file signatures recognition: Canon Raw Image File (CR3), Finale Notation File (MUSX);
  • Improved NTFS recovery on volumes located in Windows Storage Spaces and on disks with 4KB sector size;
  • Latest Recovery Kernel including many improvements and bug fixes;
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 10 (build 1903);
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk now supports PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks

New in UNFORMAT 9.0.2 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • More pre-defined file signatures recognition: Canon Raw Image File (CR3), Finale Notation File (MUSX)
  • Improved NTFS recovery on volumes located in Windows Storage Spaces and on disks with 4KB sector size
  • Latest Recovery Kernel including many improvements and bug fixes
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 10 (build 1903)
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk now supports PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks

New in UNFORMAT 8.0.0 (Jan 23, 2019)

  • Added file signatures recognition: SQL Server Databases (MDF), Virtual Hard Drive Files (VHDX)
  • Improvements in XFS / JFS filesystems recovery and more...

New in UNFORMAT 7.0.0 (Feb 16, 2018)

  • More pre-defined file signatures recognition: SQL Server Databases (MDF), Virtual Hard Drive Files (VHDX)
  • Support for ReFS versions 3.x file system scan & data recovery, including non-standard sector sizes: 1024, 2048, 4096
  • Improvements in Linux/Unix JFS and XFS file systems data recovery
  • Improved handling of dynamic virtual disk arrays: LDM & LVM
  • Improved software stability while working with damaged disks
  • Improvements in Windows Storage Spaces partitions handling
  • Improved Custom Signatures scripting for user templates creation to search deleted file by their signatures
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 10 x64 base

New in UNFORMAT 6.0.3 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • More pre-defined file signatures recognition: AI, ACCDB, OST, DB3, VCPROJ, USER, SVG, FBR
  • Full support for Microsoft ReFS file system scan & file recovery
  • Added support for Linux/Unix JFS file system scan & data recovery
  • Support for Windows Storage Spaces data recovery
  • Some fragmented files could be by signatures (MOV/MP4)
  • Full support for Hi-DPI monitors (large screen resolutions)
  • Improvements in XFS / Ext4 file systems recovery
  • Significantly optimized advanced scan speed and memory consumption

New in UNFORMAT 5.0.5 (Apr 1, 2017)

  • Released on 07/08/2016
  • More pre-defined file signatures recognition: AC3, MSG, 3DS, MAX, DXF, CMX, AMV, 4XM, 4XA, EPS, XZ, LZ4, BZ2, JP2, M2V, MTS, FDB, FBR, OST, ACCDB, ODS, ODB, ODF, ODG, ODP
  • Added support for Microsoft ReFS file system scan & file recovery
  • 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
  • Added file system's metadata display: $FILE & $INDX file records for NTFS, $DIR Directory entries for FAT/FAT32
  • Improved Linux Ext2Ext3Ext4 file systems scanning performance
  • Improvements in data recovery algorithms
  • Professional package: Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor 6
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 5.1 64-bit (x64) base which performs faster & optimizes RAM usage
  • Professional package: Active@ Boot Disk now being able to boot the latest UEFI Secure Boot systems

New in UNFORMAT 4.0 (Apr 1, 2017)

  • Released on 01/10/2015
  • Re-designed Wizard-style user interface
  • Added more than 100 new pre-defined File Signatures to recover
  • Added File Organizing features for signature files recovery
  • Added 64-bit application running much faster on x64 systems
  • Added support for Unix UFS and Linux BtrFS file systems recovery
  • Professional version: included Active@ Disk Editor 5 for low-level data inspection
  • Professional version: the latest Active@ Boot Disk Lite & boot disk utilities

New in UNFORMAT 3.0.8 (Apr 23, 2014)

  • Support for exFAT, Apple HFS+ & Linux ExtFS file systems recovery
  • More than 30 new pre-defined File Signatures being added by default
  • Custom File Signatures can be defined using simple scripting
  • Improvements in scan algorithms, the latest recovery kernel

New in UNFORMAT 2.5.3.21 (Mar 30, 2012)

  • Support for large HDDs;
  • Advanced recovery by folder/by file;
  • Improvements in scan algorithms.

New in UNFORMAT 2.0.8 (May 26, 2011)

  • Unformat hard drive
  • Restores formatted HDD, USB & Flash drives
  • Recovers data from NTFS, FAT32, FAT file systems
  • Automatic operability for user convenience Simple and well thought-out interface design Supports all Windows operating systems