DiskDigger has two modes of operation which you can select every time you scan a disk. These modes are called “dig deep” and “dig deeper.” Here is a quick list of features for each mode:
Dig Deep
- Undelete files from FAT (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32), NTFS, and exFAT partitions.
- Filter recoverable files by name and size.
- Sort recoverable files by name, size, date, and directory.
Dig Deeper
- Scan (carve) entire disk for traces of specific file types.
- Supported file types include:
- Photos and images:
- JPG – Pictures stored in digital cameras and on the Web (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- PNG – Portable Network Graphics
- GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
- BMP – Windows and OS/2 bitmap image
- TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
- ICO – Windows Icon
- ANI – Windows Animated Cursor
- CR2 – Canon RAW image
- SR2 – Sony RAW image
- NEF – Nikon RAW image
- DCR – Kodak RAW image
- PEF – Pentax RAW image
- DNG – Adobe Digital Negative
- SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
- PSD – Adobe Photoshop Image
- RAS – Sun raster image
- PSP – Paint Shop Pro image
- Thumbcache – Windows thumbnail cache
- IFF – Amiga images and other media
- ART – AOL Art images
- WMF – Windows MetaFile
- EMF – Enhanced MetaFile
- WMZ, EMZ – Compressed MetaFiles
- DICOM – Medical imaging format
- WEBP – WebP images
- PCX – ZSoft PCX images
- CDR – CorelDraw images
- INDD – Adobe InDesign documents
- CP – Adobe Captivate documents
- Documents:
- DOC – Microsoft Word document (2003 and below)
- DOCX – Microsoft Word document (2007 and above)
- XLS – Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (2003 and below)
- XLSX – Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (2007 and above)
- PPT – Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (2003 and below)
- PPTX – Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (2007 and above)
- VSD – Microsoft Visio document
- PDF – Portable Document Format
- XML – eXtensible Markup Language
- HTML – HyperText Markup Language
- RTF – Rich Text Format
- WPD – WordPerfect document
- WPS – Microsoft Works document
- PUB – Microsoft Publisher document
- XPS – XML Paper Specification
- WRI – Old Windows Write document
- ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG – OpenDocument formats
- Audio and video:
- MP3 – Audio format widely used in digital media players (MPEG layer 3)
- WMA – Windows Media Audio
- AVI – Audio Video Interleave
- WAV – Wave audio
- MID -Musical Instrument Digital Interface
- FLV – Adobe Flash Video
- WMV – Windows Media Video
- MOV – QuickTime video
- M4A – MPEG-4 audio
- M4V, MP4 – MPEG-4 video
- 3GP – Third Generation Partnership video
- F4V – Adobe Flash video based on MPEG-4 Part 12
- RM – RealMedia video
- RMVB – RealMedia video (variable bitrate)
- MKV – Matroska video
- MPEG – Motion Picture Experts Group
- AU – Sun Microsystems audio
- MTS, M2TS – MPEG2 Transport Stream
- R3D – RED Video Camera video
- APE – Monkey’s Audio file
- OFR – OptimFROG lossless audio
- PPM, PGM, PBM – Netpbm images
- WEBM – WebM videos
- Compressed archives:
- ZIP – Widely used compressed format developed by PKWARE
- RAR – Roshal ARchive, used by WinRAR
- 7Z – Compressed format used by 7-Zip
- GZ – Compressed format used by gzip
- SIT – Compressed format used by StuffIt for Mac
- ACE – WinAce archive
- CAB – Microsoft Cabinet archive
- SZDD – Compressed files created by COMPRESS.EXE from MS-DOS
- Miscellaneous:
- ISO – Images of optical media, such as CDs and DVDs
- EXE – Windows or MS-DOS executable file
- DLL – Windows or MS-DOS dynamic-link library
- MDB – Microsoft Access database (2003 and below)
- ACCDB – Microsoft Access database (2007 and above)
- PST – Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders file
- DBX – Microsoft Outlook articulate data file
- XAC – GnuCash data file
- KMY – KMyMoney data file
- DWG – AutoCAD drawing
- DXF – Drawing Interchange Format
- CHM – Microsoft Compiled HTML Help file
- TTF, TTC – TrueType font
- CLASS – Java class file
- KMZ – Google Earth location data
- Photos and images:
Features
- Works with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux.
- View recoverable files as a list, or as thumbnail previews.
- Thumbnails will show previews of image files, album art from MP3 and WMA files, and icons from executable files!
- Selecting a recoverable file brings up a full preview of the file (insofar as possible). For image files, it will show the image (with pan and zoom). For document files, it will show a text-only preview of the document. For certain audio files, it will allow you to play back the sound.
- Previews of JPG and TIFF files will show EXIF information (camera model, date taken, sensor settings, etc.).
- Previews of MP3 files will show ID3 information (artist, album, genre, etc.).
- Previews of ZIP files will show a list of files contained in the archive.
Advanced Features
- Able to scan virtual disk image files:
- VHD files (Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk)
- VDI files (VirtualBox disk image)
- Direct binary disk images (acquired with
ddor similar tools)
- When digging deeper, ability to start scanning from a specific location on the disk.
- When previewing files, the program optionally shows the first 4K bytes of the file as a hex dump.
What’s New
- Expanded uphold for recovering raw camera formats (Sony .ARW, Canon CR3, etc).
- Improved uphold for older Apple file systems (HFS+ and HFS).
- Improved detection of special types of logical drives, such as encrypted volumes.
- Fixed a few bugs that might bring about instability when recovering very large files.
Additionally, DiskDigger will now display a warning when you select a drive that has the TRIM function enabled. This applies to most internal SSD drives, and impacts the chance of successful recovery of data.
