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Release Notes:
[V3.7.0]
1. New: Support more file types when recovering files by known type.
2. New: Can preview files in a large window.
3. New: Support preview office documents including WORD, EXCEL and PowerPoint files.
4. Enhanced: After recovering files, the number and capacity of selected files will be displayed on the status bar.
5. Enhanced: Change the accelerator key F9 and F10 for back up and restore partition table to F2 and F3.
6. Fixed: A bug of lost partition recovery.
7. Fixed: A bug of formatting NTFS partition under Windows 7.
8. Fixed: Program may run into endless loop when recovering files by type.
[V3.6.0]
1.
New: Recovery lost files from unallocated disk space.
2. New: Extra search for known file types when recovering files.
3. New: Recovery files by known type and output immediately(can scan free clusters only).
4. New: Construct virtual RAID for data recovery.
5. Enhanced: Add a Open Folder button to the File Copy dialog box. Click it will open the target folder.
6. Enhanced: Can save file recovery progress to a file for later continue.
7. Enhanced: When repairing bad tracks, try to keep the sector data unchanged to decrease data lose.
8. Enhanced: Prevent changing the drive letter of the system partition.
9. Fixed: Refresh partitions after erasing the sectors of a partition or a disk.
10. Fixed: The Arranging Files operation may take very long time when recovering lost files.
11. Fixed: Can not recover lost files from BitLocker partition.
12. Fixed: When backing up a NTFS partition to separate image files, the image files may become unusable.
13. Fixed: The file size may become 0 byte when extract it from a partition image file.
[V3.5.0]
New:
1. Erase sectors of a disk or a partition, can specify sector range and fill type.
2. Permanently delete files. After this operation the files will not be undeleted by any software.
3. Support reading files from Samsung RFS File system partition.
4. Add a file filter panel for File Recovery function. you can filter files by name, attributes, size and time.
Enhanced:
1. Enhanced: When recovering files, speed up file organizing at the final stage.
2. Support creating folder with special file name when copying files.
3. Add Show System Files menu item for the DOS version.
Bug Fixed:
1. Can not cancel the formatting process of the quick partition function.
2. Program may crash when quit the program.
3. Can not correctly display the USB-FDD disk sometimes.
4. On the quick partition dialogue, when clicking the Default Size button, the partition type was reset unexpectedly.
5. Bad track repairing may failed sometimes.
6. When files were written to a partition, after the partition was refreshed, the files may disappeared sometimes.
7. The drive letter of unformatted partition do not displayed sometimes.
8. When recover files from FAT32 partition, not all files can be recovered.
[V3.4.5]
1. Support recovering large and very fragmented files.
2. Question resolved: In some cases the data of the recovered files may
not correct.
3. Support searching the partitions by cylinders. Only the partitions
aligned to cylinders could be found.
4. Display the starting sector number of unknown type partitions and free
space on partition information panel.
5. Do not write the Local AppWizard-Generated Applications registry key.
6. Fixed: The verify bad tracks on removable disks it always report
errors.
7. Fixed: Can not assign drive letter after quick partition on Windows
2003 PE system.
8. Fixed: Can not correctly delete the second logical partition after the
first one was already deleted.
9. Fixed: After recovering deleted files and reloading the partition, the
deleted folders still displayed on the directory tree.
10. Fixed: In some cases some files of FAT file system can not
displayed.
11. Fixed: Program may crashed on some anomalous partition table.
12. Fixed: In some cases an unwanted drive letter may displayed when
a USB disk was inserted.
13. Fixed: After writing some files into NTFS partition under DOS
system, the files could not be found by Windows system.
14. Fixed: Can not find logical partitions from the free space
sometimes.
15. Fixed: After recovering files on NTFS partition, some files
could not be displayed in some cases.
16. Fixed: After recovering files on NTFS partition, the Lost Files
folder did not displayed.
17. Fixed: When copying files to NTFS compressed partition the files
was not compressed.
18. Fixed: When setting the volume name of NTFS partition, if the
new name is shorter than the old one, the volume will be not
correct.
[V3.4.3]
1. Use Windows
XP's MBR when rebuilding master boot record.
2. Fixed: All SAVING FILES menu items are disabled when recovering
files on Version 3.4.2.
3. Fixed: When copying files to an abnormally dismounted partition,
the file copying dialog not be closed.
4. Fixed: Can not assign drive letter after quick partition on
Windows PE system.
5. Fixed: When booting from the partition which restored from a
partition image file on Windows PE system, the operating system may
crash and display a blue screen.
6. Fixed: When exploring partition image (.pmf file), some files may
not be displayed.
7. Fixed: Can not activate DOS version when register.
[V3.4.2]
1. When
recovering files, save searching progress automatically per 2
minutes.
2. Display types information of virtual disks on Disk Information
panel.
3. When activate a partition, if the partition is hidden, cancel the
hidden flag automatically.
4. When hiding a system partition, do not try to lock it.
5. Add a "Read-Verification" option on Bad Track Verification
dialog. When this option was selected, the verification result will
depend on
the reading operation.
6. Enhance keyboard operation. TAB key to switch input focus.
Ctrl_Left and Ctrl_Right key to switch current partition or space.
7. Add an "Ignore the partitions without files" checkbox on Search
Lost Partitions dialog. When this option was selected, the
partitions
found without files will be ignored automatically.
8. Fixed: Can not open the FAT32 partition when the root directory
has a same filename with volume label.
9. Fixed: Can not set volume label for FAT32 partition when there is
a same filename.
10. Fixed: Program crashed when formatting a very small FAT32
partition.
[V3.4.0]
New:
1. Support Virtual PC disk
files(".vhd" file).
2. Support VirtualBox disk files(".vdi" file).
3. Support directly load and extract files from NTFS partition image
backed up by files.
4. Support the disks with non-512 bytes sector size.
5. Support BitLocker encrypted partitions.
6. Can display cluster allocation diagram of each partition.
7. Support rename files and folders.
Enhanced:
1. New search mode for the function of searching lost partitions,
simplify search settings. Do not use the automatic and advanced mode
again.
2. When copying files, do not permit saving files to newly found
partitions.
3. While recovering lost files from a partition, PartitionGuru can
automatically recover files from origin FAT32 and NTFS file systems
at the same time.
4. The function of recovering lost files can automatically save
recovery progress. When searching again, the recovery progress can
be loaded and continue.
5. On the file browsing list control, the deleted file and the files
without parent are distinguished by special icons.
6. When a partition was destroyed, PartitionGuru can try its best to
list the file for recovering.
7. When creating new partition, the input focus is automatically set
to the size control on the "create new partition" dialogue.
8. After creating a new partition, the next free space will be
automatically selected. When creating the second partition, the
partition type will be automatically set to "extended". If there are
already three primary partitions, when creating the fourth
partition, the partition type will be automatically set to
"extended" also.
9. Add alignment options to the "Create new partition" dialogue. It
can be used for aligning the partition position and size to the
integral multiple of the specified sector numbers.
10. Add alignment options to the "Create ESP and MSR partition"
dialogue.
11. Add alignment options to the "Quick partition" dialogue. All
partitions can be aligned to the integral multiple of the specified
sector numbers.
12. On the function of "Make USB Bootable Disk", the "Create DOS
system" option on the formatting dialogue can be selected or not.
While making FDD disk, the FAT32 file system type can not be
selected because FreeDOS do not support it.
13. When formatting NTFS partition, set the default cluster size and
the position of the metafiles like $MFT to same as the Windows
formatting program.
14. The function of formatting NTFS partition do not support the
cluster size larger than 64KB.
15. Change the interface style to XP mode.
16. Rearrange the sequence of the toolbar buttons.
Bug Fixed:
1. Fixed: After searching lost partitions on GPT disk, the GUID of
the existing partition was changed.
2. Fixed: While recovering lost files, the "$Extend" folder will be
copied even not selected.
3. Fixed: When recovering deleted files, the program maybe crashed
when the "Show normal files" option is selected.
4. Fixed: After restoring a NTFS partition from an image file,
CHKDSK may report errors on the partition.
5. Fixed: On the function of "clone disk", the program maybe crashed
after a disk is selected.
6. Fixed: The "Create new partition" dialogue for creating a GUID
partition, when the partition type is changed, the partition type
GUID does not automatically changed.
7. Fixed: While PartitionGuru is running, the removable disk can not
be dismounted even if not be opened.
8. Fixed: Sometimes the partition table backup can not be restored
because of the program crash.
9. Fixed: Can not load the FAT/FAT32 partition with single File
Allocation Table(FAT).
10. Fixed: Can not change the volume name of a hidden partition
under Windows 7 system.
11. Fixed: On the function of "Quick Partition", when set the last
partition as primary, a little free space on the tail of the disk
maybe not allocated.
12. Fixed: After a Quick Partition under Windows 7 system, some
unwanted drive letters maybe generated.
13. Fixed: When open some memory cards the program maybe crashed.
