The results of disk scan are matched against information contained in the file system, and you are presented with a complete list of all Microsoft Office documents that are on the disk and that are still possible to recover. The file system is also scanned in order to retrieve the names of the files. In order to find the documents, it uses a set of signatures that are characteristic for the Office file types. However, they frequently fail to work properly if the file system itself is damaged, which happens a lot after hard drive failures.ĭiskInternals Office Recovery scans the entire surface of your hard drive in order to locate all Microsoft Office documents that are still there. General-use recovery products scan the computer's file system in order to locate files that were deleted or corrupt because of a hard drive failure.
If you have a recent copy of your Office documents, that's great! But what if your backup is several days old, and you've put a lot of work into these documents? Or even worse, what if you don't have a backup at all? Combined, files in these formats occupy significant space on the users' hard drives, and represent hours and hours of work, much more than any other file format.ĭiskInternals Office Recovery support file system as NTFS, FAT, exFAT, ReFS, Ext2/3/4, UFS, HFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, RomFS(reader). Most presentations are created in Microsoft PowerPoint and stored in PPT files, and most charts and drawings are drawn in Microsoft Visio and saved as VSD files. Microsoft Excel and its XLS file format dominate spreadsheet market.
Microsoft Word dominates the market of word processors, and most if not all documents are stored in RTF and its proprietary DOC formats. Microsoft Office documents store results of many hours, days or even years of work of practically all office employees and most people who use their computers at home.
This factor is reliability of the recovery. What would you value most in a data recovery solution should you lose an important document? Would it be speed, convenience, or ease of use? These things surely matter for all kinds of computer software, but data recovery has one specific demand that outweighs everything else by a huge margin.