Power Search Technology

Power Search Technology is a data recovery methodology developed by DiskInternals Research. It enables the software to identify more than 160 different types of file, improving the chances of a successful recovery of your data.

Recognized File Types

Document files

• ADP - Microsoft Access Project
• AWG - Ability Draw Document
• AWS - Ability Spreadsheet Document
• AWW - Ability Write Document
• DOC - Microsoft Word Document
• DOCM - Microsoft Word 2007 Document with Macros
• DOCX - Microsoft Word 2007 Document
• DOT - Microsoft Word Template
• DOTX - Microsoft Word 2007 Template
• HLP - Windows Help File
• JTD - Ichitaro Document
• MPP - Microsoft Project
• MSG - Exchange Mail Message
• ODB - OpenOffice 2 Database
• ODF - OpenOffice 2 Formula
• ODG - OpenOffice 2 Graphics Document
• ODP - OpenOffice 2 Presentation
• ODS - OpenOffice 2 Spreadsheet
• P65 - Adobe PageMaker
• PPT - PowerPoint Presentation
• PPTM - PowerPoint 2007 Presentation with macros
• PPTX - PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
• PS - PostScript
• PUB - Microsoft Office Publisher
• QPW - Quattro Pro for Windows Project
• RTF - Rich Text Document
• SDC - OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet
• SDD - OpenOffice.org Presentation
• SDW - OpenOffice.org Text Document
• TXT - Plain Text
• VBD - Visual Basic 5 Active Document
• WPS - Microsoft Works Text Document
• XLS - Microsoft Excel Worksheet
• XLSB - Microsoft Excel 2007 Binary Workbook
• XLSM - Microsoft Excel 2007 Workbook with macros
• XLSX - Microsoft Excel 2007 Worksheet
• XLT - Microsoft Excel Template
• XLTX - Microsoft Excel 2007 Template

Database files

• DAT - Miranda Database
• DBF - dBase database
• DBX - Microsoft Outlook Express mail database
• MDB - Access Database
• PST - Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder File
• WAB - Windows Address Book
• WDB - Microsoft Works Database

Photo and image files

• 3DS - 3D Studio
• AI - Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphic
• ANI - Windows Animated Cursor
• ARW - Sony RAW Bitmap
• BMP - Windows OS/2 Bitmap Graphics
• CDR - Corel Vector Graphic Drawing
• CDT - CorelDRAW Template
• CLS - Corel Designer Symbol Library
• CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange Image
• CR2 - Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
• CRW - Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
• CWS - Claris Works Template
• DES - Corel Designer Technical Illustration
• DGN - ArcView Design Drawing File
• DS4 - Micrografx Designer Ver. 4 Graphic
• FLA - Flash Movie Authoring File
• FPX - Kodak FlashPix Image
• GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
• JPG, JPEG - JPEG Image
• MAX - 3D Studio Max Model File
• NEF - Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
• PAL - Microsoft Color Palette
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
• SDA - OpenOffice.org Drawing
• SWF - Macromedia Flash Format File
• TIF, TIFF - Tagged Image Format File
• UFO - PhotoImpact Graphic
• VSD - Visio Drawing

Video and animation files

• AMV - MTV Movie File
• ASF - Advanced Streaming Format
• AVI - Audio Video Interleave File
• CLK - Corel RAVE Animation File
• M2TS - Blu-ray BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream
• MOV - QuickTime Video Clip
• MP4 - MPEG-4 Video File
• MPG, MPEG, MP1, M1V, MP2, M2A, M2V, VOB, MV - Mpeg Movie file
• RM - Real Media
• WMV - Windows Media Video

Music files

• 4XM - 4X Technology's multimedia file format
• AIF - Windows Media Audio
• AU - uLaw/AU Audio File
• CDA - CD Audio Track Shortcut
• DLS - Roland GS MIDI sound set file
• IDF - MIDI Instruments Definition File
• MID - Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Sequencer File
• MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer III
• MTM - Multitrack Music Module
• OGG - OGG audio file
• RA - Real Audio
• RMI - RMI MIDI File
• SF2 - Creative Labs Soundfont 2.0 Bank File
• SGT - DirectMusic Producer Segments Type
• STY - Microsoft DirectMusic Style
• VOC - Creative Labs Sound
• VQF - Transform-domain Weighted Interleave Vector Quantization (TwinVQF) Music File
• WAV - Waveform Audio
• WMA - Windows Media Audio
• WV - Wave Pac

CAD / Drawings

• AGBD - ANSYS DesignSpace
• ASM - Solid Edge Document
• DFT - SolidEdge CAD File
• DSDB - ANSYS DesignSpace Graphic Stream
• DSN - OrCAD Schematic Capture Schematic File
• DWF - Autodesk Design Web Format
• DWG - AutoCAD Drawing Database
• DXF - AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format
• E3 - Thinkdesign CAD Design
• IAM - Autodesk Inventor Assembly
• IDW - Autodesk Inventor CAD
• IPT - Autodesk Inventor CAD
• PAR - Solid Edge Document
• PRT - Unigraphics Part File
• SLDASM, SLDDRW, SLDPRT - 3D SolidWorks Document

Compressed archive files

• 7Z - 7-Zip Compressed File
• CAB - Microsoft Cabinet File
• RAR - Rar Archive
• TAR - Unix Tape Archive
• ZIP - Compressed Archive File

Text file types

• ASL - AppSight Console Log
• ASP - Active Server Page
• BDSPROJ - Borland Developer Studio Project File
• C - C/C++ Program File
• CAT - Security Catalog
• CPP - C++ Source Code File
• DPR - Borland C++Builder/Delphi Project
• DTD - Document Type Definition
• EML - Electronic Mail file
• EXP - Export file
• H - C/C++ Header File
• HTM, HTML - Hypertext Markup Language file
• LASSO - Lasso Studio Database Driven Web Page
• PAS - Pascal Source File
• PHP, PHP3 - PHP Script
• PL - Perl Script
• PY - Python Script
• REG - Registry Data File
• SH - UNIX/Linux Shell Script
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics File
• TXT - Text File
• WEB - BlackWidow Website Description File
• XCL - Xtree for Windows Script
• XML - Extensible Markup Language File
• XSL - XML Stylesheet

Other file types

• CHM - HTML Help Compiled Help File
• CONTACT - Windows Vista contact
• GRA - Flight Simulator File
• ILG - InstallShield Log File
• JBC - Jetico BestCrypt CryptoDisk Container
• MSI - Windows Installer File
• MSP - Windows Installer Patch
• MST - Windows SDK Setup Transform Script
• OPT - Opt file
• RPT - Crystal Reports Report
• SUO - Visual Studio Solution User Options
• TBB - The Bat! E-mail Hives
• TBI - The Bat! index
• VCF - vCard file

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