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