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Find lost partitions with UFS Explorer
In case UFS Explorer is unable to find file system, unable to parse unsupported partition structures or partition table structures are damaged you may use 'Scan this disk for lost partitions' tool. The tool allows you to find all existing file systems using full disk scan. It detects file systems by their specific on-disk structures, ignoring any partition table descriptors. Right-click disk, select the tool and wait. After scan is completed, UFS Explorer will show 'virtual copy' of the disk, containing all detected file systems in order of appearance. For further operations, you may use this virtual disk copy as real disk.  Figure 1. Scan result Figure 1 shows original disk and scan result for it. Please note: the scan may detect not only existing partitions, but also disk partitions, deleted after disk re-partitioning (see example). It also ignores all unsupported file systems, even if detects their structures. In case file system contains files that contain file system or file system-like structures (disk image files, some system files), UFS Explorer may report 'wrong' disk partition, taking these structures as the source. Wrong partitions, detected basing on disk image files might be both readable or not, depending of actual disk image file fragmentation. The sizes of the partitions are detected basing not on relative position, but on file system actual data, so present/lost partitions may intersect. Backup In case you need save scan result for future use, right click 'PRO Scan result Extended partition' and choose 'Backup this scan result'. You may then restore scan result later: right click original disk, choose 'Load lost partitions info...'. UFS Explorer will control if partitions data belongs to right disk. Requirements
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