UFS Explorer products
Data recovery software
Data recovery software
for every data loss scenario
UFS Explorer covers the full range of data recovery tasks, from restoring a deleted file on a USB drive to handling complex enterprise storage systems. The software is organized into two product families: the Classic family for common data loss situations and the Professional family for advanced data recovery and forensic work. Whichever product you choose, you can get started with a free trial that has no time limit.
Classic editions
Professional editions
Two product families
Classic and Professional software – understanding the difference
Both product families are built on the same proven recovery engine. What sets them apart is the level of technology coverage and their intended audience, not the effectiveness of the recovery algorithms themselves.
Classic product family
Data recovery software
for typical data loss cases
for typical data loss cases
Designed for individual users, computer repair technicians and IT experts. Covers single-disk recovery, NAS and RAID arrays, as well as LAN-based multi-machine workflows. Features a clean interface optimized for common scenarios. Licensed on a perpetual, per-platform basis.
- UFS Explorer Standard Recovery from $69.95
- UFS Explorer RAID Recovery from $149.95
- UFS Explorer Network RAID from $229.95
Professional product family
Professional-grade software
for specialist and forensic use
for specialist and forensic use
Designed for data recovery engineers and digital forensics investigators. Includes support for VMware VMFS datastores, extended decryption capabilities, forensic image formats, a full hex editor and SAN storage recovery, along with enterprise Unix file systems and hardware command tools available in the Technician edition. Provides advanced control through a more complex interface.
- UFS Explorer Professional Recovery from $699.95
- UFS Explorer Technician from $469.95
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Data is stored on a single drive, USB stick, SD card or virtual disk
Files were deleted, the storage was formatted, or the file system is inaccessible. No RAID is involved.
→ UFS Explorer Standard Recovery
The NAS device or RAID array has failed
Data loss on Synology, QNAP, Drobo, Buffalo or similar systems, or on a custom RAID enclosure. All drives can be connected to a single computer.
→ UFS Explorer RAID Recovery
RAID drives are distributed across multiple machines
There are too many drives to connect to a single workstation, or the assembled volume must be accessed from another machine via iSCSI.
→ UFS Explorer Network RAID
Work with VMFS, LUKS, forensic formats or a hex editor
Professional recovery scenarios involving VMware datastores, Linux full-disk encryption, E01/AFF4 images, advanced hex analysis or SAN environments.
→ UFS Explorer Professional Recovery
Enterprise Unix systems, SAN storage or hardware-level drive operations
Advanced technologies including QNAP QuTS hero, NetApp ONTAP, AIX, HP-UX, Dell/HP/IBM SAN systems, and low-level SCSI/ATA access.
→ UFS Explorer Technician
CCTV surveillance footage recovery
A specialized solution for investigative work involving proprietary DVR/NVR file systems, forensically sound video extraction and reconstruction of dashcam footage.
→ UFS Explorer Video Recovery
Functional differences
Product comparison – key capabilities at a glance
This table shows the most important differences between editions. For the full list of features and technical specifications of each product, please visit the individual product pages.
| Classic family – common recovery cases | Professional family — specialist workflows | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | Standard Recovery |
RAID Recovery |
Network RAID |
Professional Recovery |
Technician |
| Recovery scenarios | |||||
| Designed for | Personal users, IT professionals | NAS and RAID recovery | RAID distributed across multiple machines | Data recovery engineers, forensic investigators | Enterprise data recovery and forensic experts |
| Single-disk recovery: deleted files, formatted drives, RAW partitions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RAID arrays and NAS devices (Synology, QNAP, Drobo, Buffalo, etc.) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recovery from drives on multiple networked machines (LAN) | — | — | ✓ | iSCSI | iSCSI |
| File systems | |||||
| Common file systems: NTFS, APFS, Ext4, Btrfs, ZFS, XFS, FAT, UFS, JFS, ReiserFS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux F2FS | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| VMware VMFS and VMFS6 datastores | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise Unix file systems (QZFS, WAFL, AIX JFS, VxFS, EAFS/HTFS, NxFS) | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Encryption | |||||
| BitLocker and Apple APFS encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LUKS/LUKS2, FileVault 2, VeraCrypt, eCryptFS, WD bridge chip hardware encryption | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Analysis and disk imaging | |||||
| Professional disk imager with defect map production (available in the free trial) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Forensic image formats: EnCase E01/AFF4 | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hexadecimal viewer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hex editor with parity calculator, XOR operations and reverse address translation | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise storage | |||||
| SAN recovery using external data maps | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SAN automation plugins (Dell EqualLogic, HP, IBM, etc.) | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Raw SCSI/ATA hardware command interface | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Licensing and platforms | |||||
| Operating systems | Windows · macOS · Linux | Windows · macOS · Linux | Windows · Linux | Windows · macOS · Linux | Windows · Linux |
| License type | Perpetual, per OS | Perpetual, per OS | Perpetual, per OS | Perpetual, all platforms | Limited-term |
| File save limit in free trial | 256 KB | 768 KB | 768 KB | 768 KB | 768 KB |
| Starting price (Personal / Commercial license) | $69.95 / $139.95 | $149.95 / $259.95 | $229.95 / $484.95 | Not available / $699.95 | Not available / $469.95 |
For a detailed feature-by-feature breakdown within each family, see the Classic product family and the Professional product family comparison pages.
Specialized software edition
UFS Explorer Video Recovery
Purpose-built · CCTV and vehicle EDR
CCTV Surveillance video recovery and forensic analysis
UFS Explorer Video Recovery is a specialized solution for recovering and analyzing video footage from CCTV surveillance systems and vehicle event data recorders (dashcams). Built on top of the UFS Explorer Professional Recovery engine, the software extends its capabilities with dedicated support for more than 130 proprietary CCTV stream formats and CCTV-specific file systems such as Hikvision WFS, Dahua DHFS, Mirage, Pinetron and others. It also provides forensically sound transmuxing to AVI without transcoding, frame-level disk location reporting and extraction of CCTV device event logs. The product is intended for law enforcement agencies, digital forensics investigators and forensic laboratories and is not designed for general data recovery tasks. Commercial and government licensing applies; runs on Windows only.
Learn more about UFS Explorer Video Recovery →
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between the classic and professional software?
The Classic product family – UFS Explorer Standard Recovery, RAID Recovery and Network RAID – is designed for personal users, IT experts and computer repair specialists. It covers single-disk recovery cases, NAS and RAID recovery, as well as LAN-based multi-machine workflows. Licenses are perpetual and issued per operating system. The Professional product family – UFS Explorer Professional Recovery and Technician – is tailored for data recovery engineers and digital forensics investigators. It adds capabilities not included in the Classic family: support for VMware VMFS datastores, extended encryption coverage (LUKS, FileVault 2, VeraCrypt, eCryptFS), forensic image formats (E01/AFF4), a full hex editor, SAN storage recovery, and, in UFS Explorer Technician, support for enterprise Unix file systems, hardware SCSI commands and SAN automation plugins.
Which product should I start with if I need to recover data from a hard drive?
For a single hard drive, USB stick, SD card or virtual disk, choose UFS Explorer Standard Recovery. For a NAS device or RAID array, use UFS Explorer RAID Recovery. All classic editions include a free trial with no time limit, so you can test the software before purchasing.
Do I need professional software to recover data from a RAID array?
No. UFS Explorer RAID Recovery – part of the Classic product family – already supports NAS and RAID recovery, including automatic detection of Synology, QNAP, Drobo, Buffalo and other systems. It also provides a RAID Builder for manual storage assembly and performs adaptive RAID reconstruction using bad-sector maps. The Professional family is required only when additional technologies are involved, such as VMFS, LUKS, forensic image formats, hex-level analysis, SAN automation or enterprise Unix file systems.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, all editions in the Classic and Professional product families include a free trial with no time limit. The trial version enables full scanning, previewing and disk imaging without restrictions. Saving is limited to files up to 256 KB in UFS Explorer Standard Recovery and up to 768 KB in all other editions. A license is required only for saving files above these limits. A trial version of UFS Explorer Video Recovery is available upon request for business and government customers.