Change Log
Only important changes are listed, more detailes are in the file changelog.txt
DMDE 4.4.0.828 (2025-10-09)
| n | Expanded built-in signatures for RAW search functionality |
| n | Added file list export to HTML format (DMDE Professional Edition only, view sample) |
| n | Improved handling of I/O errors with selective skipping by error code |
| n | Added NTFS journal processing to recover additional data from recent operations |
| n | Added support for ReFS up to version 3.14 |
| i | Enabled preview support for additional image (graphic) file types (Windows only) |
| i | Improved extfs reconstruction when copies of superblocks with group descriptors are found |
| b | Fixed potential hang during Btrfs volume reconstruction |
| b | Resolved issue with cluster list creation when subfolders are present |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 4.2.0.814 (2024-07-25)
| n | Interface improvements for ease of use |
| n | Btrfs subvolumes support |
| n | NTFS support for cluster size larger than 128 sectors (up to 2M) |
| i | Increased the limit on the number of files in a directory (for 64-bit versions) |
| b | Fixed RAID parameters detection bug when a small LBA Offset Step is used |
| b | Fixed corrupted INDX records processing for NTFS (possible freeze) |
| b | Fixed ExFAT search (including a critical bug) |
| b | Fixed FAT search support for 128 sectors per cluster (64K) |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 4.0.6.806 (2023-04-06)
| b | Broken log support when copying sectors in Linux/macOS |
| b | Broken RAID calculation in 64-bit versions for Windows |
| b | Btrfs reconstruction possible critical bug |
| b | Btrfs scan may hang |
| b | App may stop responding after minimizing (Windows GUI) |
| ... | Other fixes |
DMDE 4.0.0.800 (2022-03-06)
| n | Btrfs support (without RAID support) |
| n | New ReFS modifications support (up to v3.7) |
| n | Turkish translation |
| i | Interface improvements |
| b | Fixed APFS reconstruction critical bug |
| b | Fixed support for APFS "duplicate" files |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.8.0.790 (2020-11-05)
| n | APFS support (without encryption) |
| n | Image preview (for standard graphics) |
| n | Portuguese Brazilian, Simplified Chinese translations |
| b | Fixed HFS support critical bugs |
| b | Fixed extfs Full Scan critical bug processing damaged inodes |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.6.1.773 (2019-10-12)
| n | 64-bit version for macOS |
DMDE 3.6.0.770 (2019-09-02)
| n | ReFS v1/v3 support |
| n | Filtering Raw results by using cluster map |
| n | Applying Raw results to FS data |
| n | Support for VMDK disk image files |
| n | Support fot EWF disk image files (e01/etc., Professional Edition only) |
| i | Extended cluster map features (diff. FS types / damaged FS / reports) |
| i | Improved RAID parameters detection accuracy |
| b | Fixed HFS support critical bugs |
| b | Fixes for some rare Extfs parameters |
| b | Fixes for exFAT found directory fragments processing |
| b | Fixed copying sectors bug when loading log with retried bad ranges |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.4.4.740 (2018-08-03)
| n | Version for macOS (GUI) |
| n | GUI version for Linux |
| b | Fixed end-of-file detection for some JPEG files (Raw search) |
| b | Fixed support for custom end-of-file signatures (Raw search) |
| ... | Other fixes |
DMDE 3.4.2.722 (2017-11-21)
| n | Apple partitioning support (read-only) |
| n | HFS+/HFSX support including complex HFS search |
| n | Popup tips |
| i | Improved and added detection of some file types (Raw search) |
| i | Improved custom file signature support (detection, complex signatures) |
| b | Fixed RAID-6 detection critical bug |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.2.0.690 (2016-11-19)
| n | Tabbed interface to work with multiple devices and objects |
| n | Custom file signatures support for Raw scan |
| n | Detection of RAID parameters |
| n | Support for dynamic VHD and VHDX disk image files |
| n | SMART report reading |
| n | NTFS encrypted file recovery (without decryption) |
| n | NTFS option: reading MFT from an external file |
| n | Disk imaging option: splitted image creation |
| i | Exfat boot sector recognition during fullscan |
| i | Improved NTFS reconstruction by processing INDX records |
| i | Better name recognition for some removed NTFS files |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.0.6.648 (2016-06-22)
| n | Recovery of some truncated NTFS files |
| n | French, Italian, Spanish, Persian (+RTL UI) translations |
| i | Improved file signatures and size detection and displaying |
| i | Improved branches separation of directory tree (NTFS & extfs) |
| b | NTFS scan critical bug fixed |
| b | Storing/loading found signatures fixed |
| b | RAID-5 forward dynamic parity striping fixed |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 3.0.4.630 (2015-10-15)
| n | Full Scan (multiple FS and RAW search, improved interface) |
| n | RAW file search by signatures |
| n | NTFS extended search (FS structures and file signatures based) |
| n | ExFAT extended search (FS structures and file signatures based) |
| n | Extfs extended search (FS structures based) |
| n | Extfs removed entries processing |
| n | FAT32 removed file recovery using signatures |
| n | Activation without restarting the software |
| ... | Other improvements and fixes |
DMDE 2.10.2.564 (2014-12-11)
| i | NTFS reconstruction default filters |
| b | ExFAT reconstruction when there are removed directories |
| b | Ex(FAT) table processing memory exception |
| b | Search string in 64-bit version |
| b | Extfs superblock detection in 64-bit version |
| b | Extfs 64-bit support |
| b | Other fixes |
DMDE 2.10.0.560 (2014-07-12)
| n | Basic exFAT support |
| n | DOS ASPI support |
| i | FAT reconstruction: some improvements and fixes |
| b | 64-bit versions issues |
| b | Some fixes |
DMDE 2.8.2.546 (2014-04-18)
| b | Extfs: missing files while recovering |
| b | Extfs: reporting error for sparse files |
| b | DOS version bugs (device selection when copy sectors) |
| b | DOS ATA: hidden ATA softreset option |
| b | Other fixes |
DMDE 2.8.0.542 (2014-02-13)
| n | Basic Ext2/3/4 support |
| n | Disk Editor: custom template support |
| b | Critical error when open some USB devices |
| ... | Minor improvements and fixes |
DMDE 2.6.0.522 (2013-11-18)
| n | GUID partitioning (GPT) support (edit mode) |
| n | Disk images/clones: load/save parameters, write log; resume using log (Prof. Edition) |
| n | Disk images/clones: simultaneous read and write in two threads (Linux and Windows) |
| n | I/O error handling: optional filler for bad sectors, load/save parameters |
| n | RAID: RAID-6 support (only XOR recovery), custom striping, load/save parameters |
| n | Undo/redo support (Disk Editor, Partition Manager) |
| n | ATA software reset (DOS ATA) |
| n | Unicode support for Windows console interface, Linux terminal interface, Disk Editor |
| n | NTFS reconstruction: MFT fragment manager |
| n | NTFS: additional features to recover lost or damaged files |
| n | NTFS Search: search shifted MFT records |
| i | NTFS Search: handling many MFT fragments optimization |
| i | FAT Search: search volumes w/o subdirectories, detect small FAT tables |
| ... | Other improvements |
DMDE 2.4.6.448 (2013-08-29)
| b | NTFS Search: erroneous omission of some close small MFT fragments |
| b | Handling found MFT fragment larger than 2GB |
| b | Cache error: data confusion on drives >2TiB in some special cases |
| b | Search by name: last symbol omission for name without extension |
| ... | Other bug fixes |
DMDE 2.4.4.442 (2012-09-06)
| b | RAID redundant data parity use when disk is absent |
| b | read backward issues |
| b | NTFS Search: 64-bit cluster value support |
| ... | |
DMDE 2.4.2 (2012-04-05)
| b | disk size detection |
| b | NTFS sparse file support |
| b | GPT copy test |
| b | Chinese Big5 code issue |
| ... | |
DMDE 2.4.0 (2011-12-18)
| n | Large sector support |
| n | Recovery: reports (Professional Edition only) |
| n | Partition search: exFAT boot sector, Ext2/3/4 superblock detection |
| n | RAID delayed parity support, RAID-4 support |
| n | NTFS alternate data stream support |
| i | Partition search: USB flash drives, Vista/Win7 partitioning |
| i | Handling directory recovery with the same names |
| i | FAT: use FAT Search results for reconstruction |
| b | NTFS search critical bug on MFT gaps |
| b | Special sector search critical bug |
| b | Device I/O error handling bug |
| b | PCI scan for ATA devices on non-default ports (DOS) |
| b | DMA transfer (DOS) |
| ... | |
DMDE 2.2.2 (2010-12-10)
| n | Customizable device I/O error handler (Professional Edition only) |
| n | DMA I/O under DOS (Professional Edition only) |
| n | Recovery: NTFS multirecord files w/o attribute list |
| n | Compressed files when cluster size is less than 4KB |
| i | Partition manager |
| i | FAT search speed up |
| i | NTFS search speed up |
| b | Volume locking (Windows) |
| ... | |
Version 2.0.1 (2009-09-20)
| n | Support for devices larger than 1TB |
| n | Device I/O: retries dialog |
| n | Support for RAID (partial) |
| n | Support for GPT (read only) |
| n | Support for Unicode names |
| n | Support for large NTFS compressed files |
| n | Interface localizations, code tables support |
| n | File marks and group recovery |
| n | Linux terminal port |
| i | Device access |
| i | Interface |
| ... | |
Version 01.39 (2008-05-01)
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