DiskDigger 1.5.6.1522

DiskDigger can recover deleted files from most types of media that your computer can read: hard disks, USB flash drives, memory cards, CDs, DVDs, and floppy disks.

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 Express 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

Common Features

• Works in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows are supported.
• Also works in 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 dd or 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.