Filesystem types

Different computers and devices use different filesystems because each filesystem has its own optimal applications, its own drawbacks, and requirements.

ReclaiMe recovers data from the following filesystems:

FAT - variations of the FAT filesystem (FAT16 and FAT32). Typically, relatively low-capacity devices such as memory cards, thumbdrives, and the like use the FAT filesystem.

exFAT - Extended FAT filesystem, used for high capacity flash drives (like SDHC cards) by Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows CE 6.0 and higher versions.

NTFS - by far the most common filesystem on the computers running Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7).

HFS - Mac OS Standard filesystem, used on Apple computers. HFS is obsolete and it is being phased out by Apple. Starting with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS does not format disks to HFS, and existing HFS disks are read only.

HFSPlus - Mac OS Extended filesystem, the default filesystem on Apple computers and other complex devices like iPod.

UfsBE and UfsLE - two variations of the UFS filesystem, used on Apple Macs and UNIX.

ext (ext2, ext3, and ext4) - different generations of the standard Linux filesystem.

RAW - an hypotetical unstructured filesystem with no files and directories. The RAW filesystem is essentially just an unstructured array of data.
In ReclaiMe, the RAW filesystem contains data that for whatever reason cannot be included into any known filesystem.