Best NTFS Data Recovery Toolkit

NTFS stands for New Technology File System which is developed by Microsoft to format a storage device in a specific structure. The NTFS File system is introduced in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1, to improve the performance over existing file systems like FAT (File Allocation Table) and HPFS (High Performance File System). The use of advance data structure in NTFS File system improve its performance like disk space utilization, reliability, easy to read & write and also supports some addition extensions like access control list and journalling file system. know complete detail of NTFS File System read the complete page.

Released Versions of NTFS File System

Microsoft released five versions of NTFS file system in term to provide better functionality and compatibility of hardware and software. All versions of NTFS File System is given below.

V1.0: - It is introduced in 1993 with the Windows NT 3.1 and it it is incompatible with v1.1 and all later developed versions.

V1.1: - It is introduced in 1995 with Windows NT 3.51 and it supports Named Stream, access control list and compressed files.

V1.2: - It is introduced in 1996 with Windows NT 4.0 and it is commonly known as NTFS 4.0 because of windows version. It supports security descriptors for secure able Windows Objects.

V3.0: - It is introduced in 2000 with the Windows 2000 and supports encrypting file system, re-parse point, sparse file and update sequence number journalling. It is commonly called as NTFS 5.0.

V3.1: - Introduced in 2001 with windows XP and it is used in Windows Vista and Windows 7, 10 also. In this the Master File Table (MFT) is expanded with the redundant record number. It is normally called as NTFS 5.1 because of introduced Operating System.

Different Used Files in NTFS File System

If a storage device is formatted as NTFS File Format then it uses some files to store all useful details. To provide better and enhance service the New Technology File System uses Master File Table, Meta Files, Attribute List, Time and Opportunistic Local. Lets discuss all files in detail.

1. Meta Files
   The NTFS File System uses a Meta file to manage and store the description of duffer file system change, backup critical file data, satisfies BOIS requirement, manages free space on device, track bad allocations, disk space use information and stores security details. To perform these operations it uses many files like $MFT, $MFTMrr, $LogFile, $AtrrDef, $Boot and $Extend etc.
2. Master File Table
   In NTFS File System the a Master File Table is use to store file name, creation date, file size , access permission, all files, directory and meta data. This feature makes it easy top deploy NTFS File system during Windows deployments. As it store all related information locally so it provides a fast search and accessibility of data. The MFT supports the algorithm which minimizes the Disk Fragmentation.
3. Attributes used in NTFS File System
   In NTFS File system all the information stored in the MFT File are associated with some attributes to specify the starting, ending, data scope and many more features. Each attribute has an attribute type which specifies the data separately. The Attributes used by NTFS File system may be of two type either Resident or Non-Resident. For exchange file it specifies some attributes like attribute type, attribute length and attribute name (it must be unique).
4. Time
   The NTFS File Format store the file created time, modified time, access time and file deleted times etc. It uses an internal time stamp like UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), It ensures that when files are moved or copied between NTFS and Non- NTFS partitions then it need to convert the timestamps on the fly.
5. Opportunistic Lock
   Opportunistic lock is often called as Oplocks and is allow a client to alter his buffering strategy for the particular file or stream which helps in reducing the network use and increases the performance. Window supports four different type of oplocks Level 2 oplock, Level 1 oplock, exclusive or batch oplock, exclusive or filer oplock.

Features of NTFS File System Over FAT File System

There are many advance feature in the NTFS File Format, I am listing all the feature below.

1. Journalling
2. Hard Link
3. Scalability
4. File Compression
5. Sparse File
6. Encryption
7. Security
8. Transaction
9. Resizing
10. Quotas
11. Volume Shadow
12. ADS – Alternate Data Stream etc.

Need of NTFS Data Recovery Toolkit and It's Features

This Recovery Toolkit for NTFS formatted hard drive is a very useful tool in case of data corruption or when the NTFS partition is not accessible. Suppose that you stored your all crucial data into NTFS Partitioned storage device such as hard disk and pen drive etc. Due to some reason you are not able to access the files or complete partition. To over come from this situation and make the ntfs partitioned drive in healthy state you need to use NTFS Data Recovery Software. While purchasing you must look for some features of the software. Find a list of top features of the this software, which is given below.

• Tool must be able to recover and save permanently deleted files or folders from NTFS partition.
• The software must have capability to retrieve any size file from NTFS partition.
• The NTFS Recovery Software must support all windows version.
• Utility must be able to recover photo, music, video, documents and other files as well.
• Software should be fast and provide Normal Data Recovery, Deleted Data Recovery and Formatted Data Recovery etc.
• The NTFS Recovery Software must be able to recover data from internal or external NTFS Formatted storage media.
• Software must have feature of ROW Partition data recovery.
• It should be able to recover data from CD/DVD.
• Search Within recovered data for particular file or folder.
• The NTFS Data Recovery Tool must be able to recover only selected files or folders from huge data.