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UFS Explorer: technical specifications

Supported disks

Any physical storage devices (SATA/PATA/SCSI/USB/FireWire), visible from Windows volume manager;
CD/DVD drives (not detected by default for perforance reasons);
Floppy and any Floppy-like drives (not detected by default for perforance reasons);
VMWare virtual disks (.vmdk files);
MS Virtual PC virtual disks (.vhd files);
Parallels Workstation virtual disks (.hdd files);
RAW disk and partition image files;
UFS Explorer compressed disk image files (.uci files);
Network disks (Business Network only; agent access).

Supported partitioning styles

Basic DOS-style (Master Boot Record and Primary/Secondary DOS-style partitions);
Windows NT dynamic disks (NT LDM);
FreeBSD/OpenBSD slices;
SUN Solaris slices;
GUID-based partition tables (GPT);
MacOS-style partition maps (so-called APM or 'Apple Partition Map');
Novel Netware partitions;
Basic support of Linux LVM partitions.

Supported file systems

Windows NT NTFS, including NTFS5.
DOS/Windows FAT, including FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and VirtualFAT (used in PocketPC devices for main storage);
Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems;
Linux ReiserFS file system;
SGI XFS file system;
MacOS/BSD UFS and UFS2 file system in both big- and little-endian realizations;
Classic Unix File System (Unix, SUN Solaris);
Adaptec SnapOS custom UFS;
Old MacOS HFS file system;
MacOS HFS+ and HFSx file systems.
UDF and ISO9660 file systems, including Joliet extension;
Novell Netware NWFS file system.

Supported RAID for reconstruction

RAID level 0 (RAID0);
RAID level 1 (RAID1);
RAID level 4 (in RAID0 mode) including degraded RAID4 in RAID5 deleyed parity mode;
RAID level 5, most parity distribution schemas, including degraded RAID5;
RAID level 6, including degraded RAID6 without single disk;
RAID level 7 (similar to RAID4);
Nested RAID: RAID 0+1, RAID 10, RAID 50 etc.

Additional file system features

Full UNICODE support for UNICODE file systems;
Code page conversion and UFS-7/UTF-8 unicode decoding for non-unicode file systems and thus full localized file names support.

See also: Data Access, Help topics.