Reverse-engineering The File System Yields Better Picture Recovery

By Author: Michael Miroshnichenko
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With the development of storage technologies and ever increasing storage capacity of modern hard disks and memory cards, the many various data recovery tools have gained well-earned popularity. Most data recovery products offer the very best recovery outcome. However, not all data recovery products are developed equal.


The technology of recovering files and pictures deleted from healthy disks or lost after a hard drive accident has evolved significantly during the last years. From simple undelete tools simply resetting the "erased" flag in the file system, algorithms used in modern data recovery tools evolved to perform the complete scan of the whole storage area of affected media such as hard drives or memory cards. The full disk scan allowed these tools to detect and locate files missing from the file system, making it possible to recover files even if no file system was present on the disk. Losing the file system is easily possible after the disk is formatted, repartitioned, or suffered a virus attack.


However, one important disadvantage of this method was inherent. Picture recovery ...
... tools using the full disk scan method to recover files were unfortunately unable to retrieve the original names of files being recovered - simply because they never referred to one single place where such information is stored: the file system.


The newest release of Hetman Photo Recovery implements a revolutionary new approach to recovering pictures. New picture recovery software implements an innovative approach to recovering pictures from damaged and corrupted hard drives and memory cards. The updated version of picture recovery software scans the entire storage media in order to locate all recoverable pictures and then reverse-engineers the file system in order to determine the exact name of those files. By reverse-engineering the file system, Hetman Photo Recovery is not only able to retrieve the original file names, but it's able to successfully recover fragmented pictures, a feature that is so far unique to picture recovery products by Hetman Software.


Hetman Photo Recovery offers computer users a fast and easy way to recover pictures from all types of healthy, damaged, formatted and even inaccessible storage media. Supporting desktop and external hard drives, memory cards and USB flash drives formatted with all revisions of FAT and NTFS file systems, Hetman Photo Recovery can recover pictures lost after a disk format operation, clearing the Recycle Bin, or deleted bypassing the Recycle Bin with "Shift" + "Del". The picture recovery tool will recover pictures lost after a virus attack or a hard disk corruption caused by a power failure. Hetman Photo Recovery can access memory cards and digital camera memory directly via a USB cord, allowing fast and easy picture recovery from digital cameras.


Is it safe to use picture recovery software? For Hetman Picture Recovery, the answer is a definite "yes". The improved picture recovery algorithm is completely safe to use as no information is ever written onto the damaged media or disk from which the files are being recovered. Instead, a copy of a picture is read from the disk or memory card, and its fully recovered copy is saved onto a different disk.


Interested in trying the new and improved version of Hetman Photo Recovery? Get free evaluation copy with full pre-recovery preview at hetmanrecovery.com.