| What's file system independent recovery?
 In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. Usually, lost files can be recovered by analyzing the data of the organization of file system. Some well-known file system data are FAT, FDT, MFT, etc. The disadvantage of this recovery method is it cannot recover files which the file system data have been damaged.
Another method is file system independent recovery. The file system independent software find files by analyzing the structure of specific file types. For example, a valid BMP image file must start with hex number 42 4D, and a valid JPG image file must start with hex number FF D8. This recovery method can recover files even if the file system data have been damaged at all. This is file format based recovery. The disadvantage of this recovery method is some file types cannot been recovered by this mothod. To supported file types, file system independent recovery provides more chance to recovery. |
