Hello everyone,

In this thread, I plan to share results from our testing lab for Hetman RAID Recovery and Hetman Partition Recovery.

We test the software with different RAID configurations, NAS devices, storage controllers, file systems, virtual disks, encryption, disk images, and various data loss scenarios.

I would be interested in feedback from HDDGuru members, especially from people who work with data recovery in practice.

Please feel free to comment on the tests themselves. If you think the methodology is weak, an important scenario is missing, or the test does not reflect a realistic recovery case, I would like to hear it.

You can also suggest:

RAID, NAS, or controller configurations to test;

file systems or encryption technologies;

damaged or incomplete RAID scenarios;

virtual disks and VM storage;

forensic image formats;

other recovery cases that would be useful to reproduce.

If there is functionality you would like to see in Hetman RAID Recovery or Hetman Partition Recovery, you are also welcome to describe it here. We can review such requests and, where they make sense, consider them for future versions.

I will use this thread to post test results, technical notes, screenshots, and related videos.

Feedback and criticism are welcome.

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Michael Miroshnichenko — Data Recovery Software Developer at Hetman Software
RAID • NAS • File Systems • Virtual Disks • https://hetmanrecovery.com/

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In the latest version, we added support for VeraCrypt containers and encrypted partitions, including both standard and hidden volumes. Hetman Partition Recovery can unlock VeraCrypt volumes using a password, PIM, keyfile, or their combination, and then analyze the decrypted filesystem for existing and deleted files.

In this test video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlgMI807V2I

we covered three scenarios:

a VeraCrypt container protected with a password, PIM, and keyfile, with some test files deleted before recovery;

a USB drive containing a standard VeraCrypt volume and a hidden volume, both password-protected;

the same USB drive after its partition information was removed with the clean command in DiskPart.

In all three cases, the volumes were unlocked and their contents were accessible for analysis and recovery.

If you work with VeraCrypt in practice, please share the scenarios or features you would like us to support — we can review them for future versions.

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Michael Miroshnichenko — Data Recovery Software Developer at Hetman Software
RAID • NAS • File Systems • Virtual Disks • https://hetmanrecovery.com/