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Works with FAT, NTFS, ReFS, exFAT, ext2/3/4, XFS, HFS, HFS+, and UFS.

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Focused on carving raw files (pictures, documents, videos) from damaged drives, ignoring the file system entirely. Pros: Incredibly powerful and completely free.