Refine Volume Snapshot
1) Particularly thorough file system search
• FAT12/FAT16/FAT32: This option searches for orphaned subdirectories (subdirectories that are no longer referenced by any other directory).
• NTFS: This option searches for FILE records in sectors that do not belong to the current MFT. Such FILE records can be found e.g. after a partition has been recreated, reformatted, moved, resized, or defragmented. With a forensic license, in a second and third step, this option also searches INDX buffers and $LogFile for noteworthy index record remnants, which either reveal previous names or paths of renamed/moved files/directories that were known to the volume snapshot before or deleted files that the volume snapshot was not aware of before (without file contents, though).

Stellar Toolkit for Data Recovery is a set of comprehensive software tools to recover lost or inaccessible data from logically failed or corrupt Windows, Mac, and Linux operating system and storage devices. The toolkit recovers missing or deleted files and folders, RAID logical partitions, and data from formatted hard drives and systems that failed to boot.

• Supports file system such as NTFS, HFS, HFS+, Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4
• Restores data from damaged or corrupt RAID 0, 5, and 6 servers
• Recovers data from encrypted storage drives
• Constructs virtual RAID when probable RAID construction fails
• Option to create Disk Image for fast recovery from bad sectors

Macrorit Disk Scanner is a smart bad sector scanning software that can help you quickly test the disk and mark the location of bad sectors.Hard disk "bad sectors" is the most common problems of the hard disk. Bad sectors are little clusters of data on your hard disk that cannot be read. Hard disks with bad sectors means the disk is not safe to store data; it will eventually lead to the important data loss of the hard disk or partition as well as errors with running files and the hard disk speed will slow down significantly and blue screen errors may also occurs.

One day you might hear strange sound from your hard drive. The computer hangs when reading/writing files, cloning partitions, formatting/checking the disk. Windows finally fails to start up after bitter attempts of reading data from HDD. The disk volumes disappear in the Explorer. Well, all these are probably caused by bad sectors on your HDD. To fix this problem, you can isolate the bad sectors so that OS will ignore/bypass them. PBD(Partition Bad Disk) can do all these annoying things for you by detecting/isolating bad sectors and creating healthy partitions. You can also adjust the properties of partitions such as the size, the start/stop postions at will, just like an ordinary partition software. The second bad block isolation method is marking bad clusters in the file system. You can now use PBD Super Format option to format the partition and hide bad clusters smoothly.

Misalignment of logical partition sectors and actual physical sectors leads to redundant read/write operations. Paragon Alignment Tool 4.0 Professional will help you align partitions on physical and virtual disks according to internal device's geometry without affecting the on-disk data.

Active@ Partition Recovery is a powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted partitions. Active@ Partition Recovery can restore any deleted partition or logical drive (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5). If a Master Boot Record and partition information backup is available on a floppy drive, then using Active@ Partition Recovery you can recover and restore Master Boot Record.

Active@ Partition Recovery is a powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted partitions. Active@ Partition Recovery can restore any deleted partition or logical drive (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5). If a Master Boot Record and partition information backup is available on a floppy drive, then using Active@ Partition Recovery you can recover and restore Master Boot Record.

Traditional disk wipers are often stuck in bad sectors leaving no time to sanitize data on healthy area of the disk, or just skip them leaving sensitive information around bad sectors not erased. WBD(Wipe Bad Disk) can thoroughly wipe disks with bad sectors in a hierarchical and elegant way. Even the disk has no bad sectors, you can also take advantage of the WBD's unique wiping algorithm to gain high security degree in a short time. WBD wipes the disk through 3 stages(stage 0-stage 2), 16 passes, and multiple levels, resulting in a new security-degree to time-cost relationship(see the figure below) in contrast to the linear functional relationship of traditional disk shredding software. This means if you can not wait the wiping process to complete and stop it earlier, you can gain higher security degree than conventional disk wipers costing the same amount of time.