TOC · Installation and Run

## Known Issues and Other Limitations

### Data Recovery

- DOS, Win9x/ME: unicode symbols in file names outside the selected code page are replaced with "_" or transliterated according to the loaded translit tables
- DOS, Win9x/ME or FAT: unable to recover file greater then 4GB as a single file due to a FAT limitation
- NTFS alternate streams can be recovered to NTFS volumes only
- One file hard link per NTFS directory is recoverable
- One alt. stream hard link per NTFS file is recoverable
- NTFS symbolic links are not supported
- NTFS encrypted files are not supported
- NTFS permissions and owners are not supported
- Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 permissions and owners are not supported
- Win9x/ME: drives greater then 128GB are not handled correctly without special patches applied to Windows drivers
- Maximum path length supported: 259 characters for DOS, 4096 for Windows, Linux
- Maximum path length supported by DOS: 79 or 127 characters (for DOS-names) depending on DOS version.
- Subdirectory depth is up to 1024 (can be increased using maxrecoverdepth= parameter)
- If name substitution is used under DOS then name handling (such as auto renaming) is not supported

### NTFS write support

- Journal is not supported
- SECURITY INFORMATION is not supported on creation (to access files and directories it is necessary to set permissions using OS features)
- OBJECTID is not supported
- Additional creation of DOS-compatible names is not supported
- Compressed files are not supported
- Alternate data streams are not supported
- To allocate/append a file a contiguous free space is required

### Other

- The software may work within the available RAM. 32-bit versions may use up to 2GB of RAM only (corresponds to the support of ~10 million files)
- Up to 2K items in the list of Devices
- Up to 400 volumes in the window Partitions
- Up to 16K custom data rotation items (striping) when constructing Custom RAID
- Up to 2K visible items per section for Full Scan (showvolumesnum= parameter)
- Up to 16 million MFT fragments of NTFS for Full Scan (ntfsmaxmftruns= parameter)
- Maximum search depth for File Panel Search is up to 1K directories
- Keyboard and mouse input is limited in Linux (keyboard shortcuts and national input may not be supported)