UFS Explorer Standard Access

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UFS Explorer Standard Access product is specially designed for access to files located on alternative file systems and storages. Supported file systems include Microsoft Windows FAT and NTFS, Apple MacOS HFS+/HFSX as well as old HFS; popular Linux Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS; set of UFS variants, including Big and Little Endian UFS1/UFS2 as well as custom Adaptec UFS, traditional Novell NWFS volumes and CD/DVD file systems.

Software supports hard disks, removable storages, disk images, virtual disks of virtual machines, created with virtualization software of major vendors. The software is designed to retrieve information located on storages with complicated or impossible data access. It works mostly with individual disks or disk volumes, however UFS Explorer Standard Access version 4 supports as well RAID access with RAID Access Plugin - RAID Builder.

The key product features include:

Host OS: Supported Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008 Server. UFS Explorer works with Windows 7.
Multiple file systems: Supported FAT and NTFS (Windows); HFS+/HFSX and old HFS (Apple Mac OS); Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS (Linux); UFS and UFS2 (Unix, BSD, Sun Solaris; both Sparc/Power and x86/x64 editions); traditional NWFS (Novell Netware); ZFS (Sun Solaris); vendor customizations to XFS and UFS file systems.
Multiple styles of disk partitions layout: Supported all major styles of disk partitions layout used with supported file systems.
RAID access: only supported by version 4 using RAID Access Plugin - RAID Builder.
Virtual machines: support virtual disk browse and files retrieval from virtual disks of Microsoft Virtual PC (Hyper-V Server as well), VMware products, Parallels products.
Localization: UFS Explorer identifies localized file names even on non-unicode file systems and recognizes UTF-16, UTF-8 and ASCII with local code pages.

The product targets:

Data retrieval from disk partitions of alternative neighbour OS such as Linux, BSD, MacOS and so on.
Data retrieval from removable storages formatted using unsupported file systems (such as UFS, XFS, HFS+ and so on);
Data retrieval from live and backup virtual disks of virtualization software;
Replacement of Runtime Software products for data access to non-Windows files systems on Runtime Software Virtual Image files if used with RAID Access Plugin - VIM Import.

Version 3 and version 4 products:

UFS Explorer Standard Access is available as newer version 4 and older version 3 products. The version 3 product is supported and distributed at lower price. There is no upgrade from version 3 product to version 4 product.

The key differences of UFS Explorer Standard Access version 4 to version 3 are the following:

Version 4 product supports external modules (plugins);
Version 4 product supports ZFS file system (ZFS is not supported by current version 3.18 of UFS Explorer);
Version 4 product has simplified user interface and many utility features like drag-and-drop and so on.
Version 4 product supports disk-on-disk access. E.g. you may open virtual disk located on XFS partition with no need to copy it to 'local' file system. In order to do it choose 'Open in UFS Explorer' tool from context menu or drag it to disks list area.

Other recommended products:

UFS Explorer Standard Recovery - supports both data access and data recovery from the supported file systems.

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Product Specifications (version 4):

Current version: 4.4
Last update: 07.06.2010
Distribution: Shareware
Licenses types: Personal, Business

Product Files:

MS Windows, 32bit: Download (1.23MB)

Quick License order links:

Personal License: Buy now (€21.95)
Business License: Buy now (€64.95)

Trial limitations:

Can not copy files above 64KB.

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Product Specifications (version 3):

Current version: 3.18
Last update: 01.06.2010
Distribution: Shareware, Support only

Product Files:

MS Windows, 32bit: Download (1.47MB)