Power Search Technology

DiskInternals data recovery products employ unique Power Search Technology. This exclusive technology enables the software to identify more than 160 different file types, enabling these files to be recovered even when other data recovery software would not detect their existence!

Supported File Types

Documents (word processor, spreadsheet etc.)

ADP - Microsoft Access Project
AWG - Ability Draw Document
AWS - Ability Spreadsheet Document
AWW - Ability Write Document
DOC - Microsoft Word Document
DOCM - Microsoft Word 2007 Document with Macros
DOCX - Microsoft Word 2007 Document
DOT - Microsoft Word Template
DOTX - Microsoft Word 2007 Template
HLP - Windows Help File
JTD - Ichitaro Document
MPP - Microsoft Project
MSG - Exchange Mail Message
ODB - OpenOffice 2 Database
ODF - OpenOffice 2 Formula
ODG - OpenOffice 2 Graphics Document
ODP - OpenOffice 2 Presentation
ODS - OpenOffice 2 Spreadsheet
P65 - Adobe PageMaker
PPT - PowerPoint Presentation
PPTM - PowerPoint 2007 Presentation with macros
PPTX - PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
PS - PostScript
PUB - Microsoft Office Publisher
QPW - Quattro Pro for Windows Project
RTF - Rich Text Document
SDC - OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet
SDD - OpenOffice.org Presentation
SDW - OpenOffice.org Text Document
TXT - Plain Text
VBD - Visual Basic 5 Active Document
WPS - Microsoft Works Text Document
XLS - Microsoft Excel Worksheet
XLSB - Microsoft Excel 2007 Binary Workbook
XLSM - Microsoft Excel 2007 Workbook with macros
XLSX - Microsoft Excel 2007 Worksheet
XLT - Microsoft Excel Template
XLTX - Microsoft Excel 2007 Template

Database files

DAT - Miranda Database
DBF - dBase database
DBX - Microsoft Outlook Express mail database
MDB - Access Database
PST - Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder File
WAB - Windows Address Book
WDB - Microsoft Works Database

Photo and image files

3DS - 3D Studio
AI - Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphic
ANI - Windows Animated Cursor
ARW - Sony RAW Bitmap
BMP - Windows OS/2 Bitmap Graphics
CDR - Corel Vector Graphic Drawing
CDT - CorelDRAW Template
CLS - Corel Designer Symbol Library
CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange Image
CR2 - Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CRW - Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CWS - Claris Works Template
DES - Corel Designer Technical Illustration
DGN - ArcView Design Drawing File
DS4 - Micrografx Designer Ver. 4 Graphic
FLA - Flash Movie Authoring File
FPX - Kodak FlashPix Image
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
JPG, JPEG - JPEG Image
MAX - 3D Studio Max Model File
NEF - Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
PAL - Microsoft Color Palette
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
SDA - OpenOffice.org Drawing
SWF - Macromedia Flash Format File
TIF, TIFF - Tagged Image Format File
UFO - PhotoImpact Graphic
VSD - Visio Drawing

Video and animation files

AMV - MTV Movie File
ASF - Advanced Streaming Format
AVI - Audio Video Interleave File
CLK - Corel RAVE Animation File
M2TS - Blu-ray BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream
MOV - QuickTime Video Clip
MP4 - MPEG-4 Video File
MPG, MPEG, MP1, M1V, MP2, M2A, M2V, VOB, MV - Mpeg Movie file
RM - Real Media
WMV - Windows Media Video

Music files

4XM - 4X Technology's multimedia file format
AIF - Windows Media Audio
AU - uLaw/AU Audio File
CDA - CD Audio Track Shortcut
DLS - Roland GS MIDI sound set file
IDF - MIDI Instruments Definition File
MID - Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Sequencer File
MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer III
MTM - Multitrack Music Module
OGG - OGG audio file
RA - Real Audio
RMI - RMI MIDI File
SF2 - Creative Labs Soundfont 2.0 Bank File
SGT - DirectMusic Producer Segments Type
STY - Microsoft DirectMusic Style
VOC - Creative Labs Sound
VQF - Transform-domain Weighted Interleave Vector Quantization (TwinVQF) Music File
WAV - Waveform Audio
WMA - Windows Media Audio
WV - Wave Pac

CAD / Drawings

AGBD - ANSYS DesignSpace
ASM - Solid Edge Document
DFT - SolidEdge CAD File
DSDB - ANSYS DesignSpace Graphic Stream
DSN - OrCAD Schematic Capture Schematic File
DWF - Autodesk Design Web Format
DWG - AutoCAD Drawing Database
DXF - AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format
E3 - Thinkdesign CAD Design
IAM - Autodesk Inventor Assembly
IDW - Autodesk Inventor CAD
IPT - Autodesk Inventor CAD
PAR - Solid Edge Document
PRT - Unigraphics Part File
SLDASM, SLDDRW, SLDPRT - 3D SolidWorks Document

Compressed archive files

7Z - 7-Zip Compressed File
CAB - Microsoft Cabinet File
RAR - Rar Archive
TAR - Unix Tape Archive
ZIP - Compressed Archive File

Text file types

ASL - AppSight Console Log
ASP - Active Server Page
BDSPROJ - Borland Developer Studio Project File
C - C/C++ Program File
CAT - Security Catalog
CPP - C++ Source Code File
DPR - Borland C++Builder/Delphi Project
DTD - Document Type Definition
EML - Electronic Mail file
EXP - Export file
H - C/C++ Header File
HTM, HTML - Hypertext Markup Language file
LASSO - Lasso Studio Database Driven Web Page
PAS - Pascal Source File
PHP, PHP3 - PHP Script
PL - Perl Script
PY - Python Script
REG - Registry Data File
SH - UNIX/Linux Shell Script
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics File
TXT - Text File
WEB - BlackWidow Website Description File
XCL - Xtree for Windows Script
XML - Extensible Markup Language File
XSL - XML Stylesheet

Other file types

CHM - HTML Help Compiled Help File
CONTACT - Windows Vista contact
GRA - Flight Simulator File
ILG - InstallShield Log File
JBC - Jetico BestCrypt CryptoDisk Container
MSI - Windows Installer File
MSP - Windows Installer Patch
MST - Windows SDK Setup Transform Script
OPT - Opt file
RPT - Crystal Reports Report
SUO - Visual Studio Solution User Options
TBB - The Bat! E-mail Hives
TBI - The Bat! index
VCF - vCard file