Hetman Photo Recovery™ change logs

Current information about changes in Hetman Software products

28.08.2023

  • A number of minor bugs FIXED.

25.07.2023

  • FIXED. MBR: sometimes, excessive disks were identified and added (by mistake).

  • FIXED. Interface: on some monitors, icons for deleted files and folders weren’t displayed correctly.

14.07.2023

  • FIXED. MBR: fixed MBR table read error (it used to occur when a physical MBR disk had many logical partitions).

  • FIXED. ReFS: in some cases, the program failed to display file contents.

  • LVM. Thin Provisioning: added support for Tier Thin Pool technology (previously, only Thin Pool was supported).

  • XFS: improved support for large files and sparse files.

30.03.2023

  • FIXED. From time to time, the program tended to freeze suddenly while scanning the disks.

  • FIXED. VMFS: the program sometimes froze at startup (while reading data from VMFS).

  • FIXED. HFS+: in some cases, the program froze while analyzing the file system.

  • FIXED. XFS: On some systems, the block size was misidentified so the system was either not analyzed at all or analyzed incorrectly.

27.12.2022

  • FIXED. ZFS file system: in some cases, the program failed to find all files with Fast scan.

12.12.2022

  • GPT: when the inner disk table (inside GPT) is damaged, the program will read its copy.

  • FIXED. Saving disk analysis data: there used to be an error when users saved Full scan and Content-Aware scan data and then opened it.

5.08.2022

  • FIXED. ReFS: in new versions of this file system, file contents were not displayed;

  • FIXED. XFS: fixed the error in analyzing old versions (4 and earlier). Previously, analysis of some systems was not supported;

  • XFS: improved analysis algorithm. In some cases, the file contents which were not displayed before are now shown properly;

  • FIXED. XFS: some deleted files were displayed as existing;

  • FIXED. Ext3/4: when running Fast scan, the program might freeze in some cases;

  • During registration, it is now possible to enter the key both with hyphens and without them.

15.07.2022

  • ZFS: added 4K block support;

  • FIXED. NTFS: in some situations, found files were duplicated;

  • Improved support for mounted disks: when a mounted disk is removed, the remaining disks related to it are checked (for example, its child disks created automatically with RAID or LVM), and they are removed (only if all their parent disks are removed).

  • Added support for new file systems. Previously, only FAT and NTFS were supported in Full analysis. Added file systems: ExFAT, ReFS, APFS, HFS, Ext2/3/4, XFS, Btrfs, ReiserFS, ZFS, UFS, Hikvision.

7.06.2022

  • XFS: scan algorithms improved (for both quick scan and full scan). Now the program shows properly more of the files, which used to be recognized as having zero byte size;

  • APFS: fixed errors in working with disks containing Snapshots;

  • FIXED. UFS: with quick scan, the program could almost freeze in the process (i.e. it would take a really long time to analyze a disk);

  • LVM: added LVM Thin Provisioning support;

  • Thumbnails and Preview: now the program can identify text documents regardless of the file extension;

  • Preview: added HEX mode. It is displayed automatically if the program can’t show the file contents in the conventional way. This can be disabled in the program settings;

  • FIXED. Mounting disk images: in some cases, physical disks were displayed as logical;

  • Saving files by FTP: accelerated, added support for big files, added support for UTF8 servers;

  • Saving disk images: added the option to save an image to FTP server.

14.04.2022

  • QEMU: improved data recovery option for QEMU virtual machine disks;

  • Improved support for the following virtual disk formats: .qcow, .qcow2, .img, .cow, .qed. It is now possible to recover data from virtual machine snapshots as well as from dynamic virtual machine disks.

29.03.2022

  • Linux KVM: improved data recovery option for Linux KVM virtual machine disks;

  • Improved support for the following virtual disk formats: .raw, .qcow2. It is now possible to recover data from virtual machine snapshots as well as from dynamic virtual machine disks.

21.03.2022

  • XFS: added XFS file system support.

10.01.2022

  • ZFS: added 4K block support.

22.12.2021

  • ZFS: added ZFS file system support;

  • FIXED. NTFS file system: in some cases, recently deleted files were displayed twice.

16.09.2021

  • FIXED. Ext3/4: some file systems couldn’t be recognized and therefore analyzed;

  • Ext3/4. Improved journal analysis algorithm: as a result, the program now displays contents for a larger number of deleted files;

  • Ext3/4: in some cases, the Fast scan process has been accelerated considerably;

  • FIXED. XFS: in some cases, the program misinterpreted file structure and therefore failed to display some files and folders.

22.07.2021

  • NTFS: added journal analysis;

  • FIXED. Ext3/4: the program tended to find many odd files with non-existing and/or unreadable names.

1.07.2021

  • VMFS: added VMFS file system support (virtual machine partitions);

  • Improved data recovery option for virtual hard disk image files.

31.05.2021

  • VHDX: Improved data recovery option for .vhdx virtual hard disk image files (Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server);

  • VHDX: it is now possible to recover data from virtual machine snapshots as well as from dynamic virtual machine disks.

30.04.2021

  • NTFS: fixed building the file allocation table. Fast scan often failed to detect a part of the files;

  • Fixed disk image saving feature (last sectors of an image used to be cut / added);

  • Replaced a third-party component (when viewing Excel files, the program displayed a registration notice);

  • Fixed a memory error.

6.04.2021

  • Added support for sparse files in Windows, Linux and MacOS, as well as in NTFS, REFS, Ext3, Ext4, BTRFS and APFS file systems.

30.03.2021

  • Added BtrFS file system support.

18.01.2021

  • Added data recovery option for information deleted from LVM Volumes in Linux.

8.01.2021

  • Added data recovery option for video recorders and Hikvision surveillance / security systems;

  • Added Hikvision file system (Hikvision DVR) support.

10.11.2020

  • Improved data recovery option for Linux disks (Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS and ReiserFS).

8.10.2020

  • Added support for Linux file systems (Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS and ReiserFS);

  • Added data recovery option for Linux disks, USB flash drives, memory cards (Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS and ReiserFS).

30.09.2020

  • Added support for 4Kn disks.

17.09.2020

  • Improved data recovery option for iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro / Mini, USB flash drives and memory cards using APFS file system.

8.09.2020

  • Added data recovery option for Windows Server (REFS file system).

6.08.2020

  • Added REFS file system support.

24.07.2020

  • Added HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) file system support;

  • Added APFS (Apple File System) support.

17.03.2020

  • Added a digital signature for the program: fixed an occasional issue of the program being blocked by Windows Smart Screen;

  • Optimized the program’s work with Windows Defender: fixed an occasional issue of the program being blocked by Windows integrated antivirus software.

1.08.2019

  • Improved fast scan data recovery algorithm;

  • Improved full analysis data recovery algorithm.

15.05.2019

  • Improved and refined data reading algorithm for damaged, unreadable and inaccessible disks, and access algorithm for lost or inaccessible files.

16.04.2019

  • Optimized the program’s performance for recovering popular mail client data (Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook etc).

15.11.2018

  • Improved recovery algorithm for deleted Microsoft Office DOCUMENTS.

30.10.2018

  • Improved data recovery algorithm for deleted VIDEO files: refined data recovery quality for Windows 10 as well as for removable media in latest Android devices.

27.07.2018

  • Improved data recovery algorithm for deleted images: refined data recovery quality and added support for new file formats;

  • Refined data recovery after extending or merging partitions / volumes, partitioning or removing volumes / partitions.

15.02.2018

  • Optimized algorithm for recovering MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle databases, as well as 1C databases.

31.01.2018

  • Improved recovery algorithm for deleted Microsoft Excel SPREADSHEETS.

29.12.2017

  • Improved algorithm for data recovery from unallocated hard disk space;

  • Improved algorithm for data recovery from RAW disks and HDDs containing RAW volumes.

11.07.2017

  • Improved algorithm for data recovery from HDDs, faulty disks or disks containing bad sectors.

17.05.2017

  • Added support for popular formats of virtual machine disks: *.vdi (*.vmdk, *.vhd, *.hdd, *.qed, *.qcow).

  • Virtual disks and virtual machine images can be mounted, and their data can be recovered: VMware Workstation and VMware Player, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, QEMU, KVM.

  • This version of the program couldn’t recover data from virtual machine snapshots. This feature has been improved and added in later versions (after 01.2022).

4.04.2017

  • Improved recovery algorithm for deleted Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

1.08.2015

  • The program is optimized to work on Windows 10;

  • It is tested for data recovery in Windows 10 after a system update, rollback to a previous version, system reset, or reinstalling the operating system on a PC and laptop;

  • NTFS: improved data recovery algorithm for the updated version of NTFS implemented by Microsoft in Windows 10.

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