Recoverit Tech Specs

Check out the full list of supported formats, devices, and scenorioes for Windows and Mac.

File Types to Recover

Photo Formats
CRW, JPEG, JPG, PNG, PSD, RAW, RGB
3DM, 3DMF, 3FR, ABM, AFX, ANI, ART, ARW, BIZ, BLD, BLEND, BMP, BOO, BR5, CAD, CDR, CDT, CGM, CIFF, CLP, CMX, CONT, CPT, CR2, CRW, CUR, CVX, DCD, DCF, DCM, DCR, DGN, DIB, DNG, DRW, DS4, DSC, DT2, DWF, DWG, DXF, EMF, EMZ, EPX, ERF, EXIF, FH10, FH11,
FH7, FH8, FH9, FLC, FMZ, FOV, FPF, FPX, FUJI, FXG, FZB, GDB, GIF, GMP, GUE, HCR, HDP, HDR, HP, HPG, HPGL, HPI, ICNS, ICO, IDML, IFF, IMG, INDD, INX, IPX, ISD, ITC2, IV, JFIF, JP2, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPX, K25, KDC, LBM, LWO, LWS, MA, MAX, MB, MDC, MDI, MDL, MDX, MEF,
MINO, MIX, MNG, MOS, MRW, MSP, NCR, NEF, NRW, OBJ, ORF, PAL, PAT, PBM, PCS, PCT, PCX, PEF, PGM, PIC, PICT, PICTCLIPPING, PLT, PNG, POD, PPM, PSD, PSP, PSPIMGE, PTX, PXN, QPT, QXB, QXD, QXL, RAF, RAS,
RAW, RELS, RGB, RLE, RTD, RW2, SCT, SDR, SDT, SHP, SKF, SKP, SR2, SRF, SRW, STP, SVG, SVGZ, TCW, TGA, THM, TIF, TIFF, UFO, VWX, WBC, WBD, WBMP, WBZ, WEBP, WMF, WP, ai, clk, YUV, DDS, X3F, GPR, FFF
Video Formats
AVI, FLA, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, WMV
3G2, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, AMV, ANM, ASF, ASX, AVI, AVS, BIK, CPI, CSF, DIVX, DMSM, DREAM, DVDMEDIA, DVM, DVR-MS, DXR, EVO, F4V, FBR, FLA, FLV, HDMOV, HDTV, IVM, M1V, M2P,
M2T, M2TS, M2V, M4V, MKV, MOD, MOI, MOV, MP2V, MP4, MPE, MPEG, MPEG4, MPG, MPV2, MTS, MXF, OGA, OGM, OGV, OGX, OOG, PLS, PMG, PSH, PSS, PVA, QPL, QT,
QTM, RCPROJECT, RM, RMVB, RP, RT, SCM, SMI, SMIL, SMJPEG, SRT, STX, SWF, SWI, TIX, TOD, TP, TPR, TS, VOB, VOD, VP6, VRO, WEBM, WM, WMP, WMV, WTV, XLMV, XVID
Audio Formats
AAC, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, MP3, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA
A52, AA, AA3, AAC, AC3, ACC, AFC, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, AM, AMR, APE, AT3, AU, CAF, CDA, CPF, CUE, CWP, DMSA, DMSE, DSS, DTS, DTSWAV, DVF, EMP, EMX, FAR, FBX, FLAC, FLP, IT,
KAR, KPI, KPL, LSO, M1A, M2A, M3D, M4A, M4B, M4P, M4R, MAC, MID, MIDI, MKA, MP, MP+, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP3PRO, MPA, MPC, MTM, OGG, OMF, PTF, RA, RAM, RFL, RMI,
RMX, RNS, RPS, S3M, SC4, SIB, SMPL, SND, STM, TAK, TTA, UMX, VOC, VPM, VQF, WAV, WMA, XM
Types Office File Formats
Word DOC, DOCX, RTF, DOT, DOTX, DOTM, ODT, OTT, WordML
Excel XLS, XLSX, XLSB, XLT, XLTX, XLTM, XLSM, XML，CSV，TSV
PPT PPT, PPTX, PPS, POT, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM, ODT
PDF PDF, PDF/A, XPS
Document Formats
EPUB, JIS, KEY, LOG, MPS, NUMBERS, ODS, ONE, PAGES, PPS, PS
12M, 1ST, 3DA, 3DS, 3TF, 3WS, ABD, ADX, AMI, APP, ASD, C, CAS, CBK, CHM, CLA, CLS, CLY, CPG, CPP, CSV, CTW, CWK, D2S, DAT, DIF,
DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX, EFX, EPS, EPUB, ETP, FB2, FCPEVENT, FDR, FDT, FF7, FM3, FMT, FTW, FZD, GHO, H, INDT, JIS, JLB, JOB, JTD, KEY, LIT, LOG, LRC, LWP, M, MCD, MDZ, MM, MOF,
MPP, MPS, MPT, NCX, NIB, NUMBERS, ODP, ODS, ODT, ONE, OPF, OTP, P65, PAF, PAGES, PDF, PLIST, PMD, POT, POTM, POTX, PPA, PPAM, PPJ, PPS, PPSM, PPSX, PPT, PPTM, PPTX, PRN, PRZ, PS,
PUB, PUZ, PWI, PYC, PYD, QBB, QCF, QDF, QPW, QSD, QXP, RESX, RFB, RPT, RTF, SCPT, SCR, SDW, SDY, SIG, SIM, SLK, SLN, STD, SUO, SXC, SXD, SXI, SXW, THMX, TOC, TXT, VBP, VI, VRD,
VSD, VSS, VST, WCM, WFA, WK1, WK2, WK3, WK4, WP6, WPD, WPS, WPT, WRI, WTF, XLAM, XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX, XMS, XPS, XSL, ZDP, XML, indd, odg, odf, odb, shw, wks, xla,
dsn, wpg, accdb, mdb, adp, py, json, strings, TEX, KEYCHAIN, SDF, VCF, BAT, ASP, VB, PL, RB, CSV, JAVA, GO, F, TX?, SKETCH, XD, IDML, CDR, AI, INDT, DWS, DWT, INF, INI
Types Outlook & Archive File Formats
Email BKL, BKS, BMS, DBX, DCI, EDB, EML, EMLX, MAIL, MBX, MSG, NSF, OEB, PAB, PST, WAB
Archive 7Z, ACE, ALZ, ARC, ARJ, BZ, BZIP, CAB, DBS, DEB, GZ, JAR, KRYPTER, LZA, LZH, MSI, PF, PKG, PUP, RAR, SEA, SFX, SIT, SITX, SOR, TAR, TGZ, WAR, ZIP, ZIPX, ZOO, GZIP, ISO, dmg, rpm, exe, 7zip, iso9660, afz
Types More File Formats
DataBase BQY, BTR, CAP, DB, DBF, FDB, FP5, FRT, LDF, MDF, MLB, MNY, NTF, PPR, PX, QBW, RDB, RLL, WB1, XGN, XNN, YGN, YNN, SQL, SQLITE
InternetWeb ASPX, CGI, ELM, HTM, HTML, IGY, IQY, JSP, LDB, MHT, MHTML, PHP
Miscellaneous ACM, ACP, ADT, AFM, API, ARX, ASMX, AW, AX, BIN, BKF, BRK, CAL, CHQ, CNT, CNV, CPL, CTM, DICM, DIT, DLL, DRD, DRF, DRS, DRV, DSG, DUN, ECF, ENC,
Miscellaneous FAE, FLT, FON, FP3, FP7, GLY, GMT, HHC, HHP, HLP, HLX, HQX, HRB, HXI, HXK, HXS, HXW, ICC, ICM, ICS, IME, IND, IPHOTO, ISU, ITS, JPO, LBL, LIB, LNK, LXA,
Miscellaneous MFL, MMAS, MMAT, MMMP, MSC, MSM, MUS, O2C, OCX, OMG, OPA, PDB, PFB, PIP, PNF, POC, POL, PPD, PRJ, PRT, PWL, PYI, RDF, REG, REP, RGS, RTM, SDB, SFL, SNK,
Miscellaneous STY, SUD, SYS, TAX, TPL, TSP, TTF, UPP, USER, VB, VMC, VMDK, VMG, VMX, VSZ, WDB, WID, WIM, WIZ, WPL, XPG, XPT, XSN, XWD, ZIC, sys, lib, dll, LDIF, LY

Files Types to Preview

Types Recoverit allows you to preview data before getting all back.
Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Books, Project, Viso, etc. DOC, DOCX, RTF, DOT, DOTX, DOTM, ODT, OTT, WordML, XLS, XLSX, XLSB, XLT, XLTX, XLTM, XLSM, XML, CSV, TSV, PPT, PPTX, PPS, POT, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM, PDF, PDF/A, XPS, EPUB, MPP, MPT, MPX, VSDX, VSX, VTX, VDX, VSSX, VSTX, VSDM, VSSM, VSTM, VDW, VSD, VSS, VST, TEX, CGM, XSLFO, XML, PCL, SVG, etc.
Photos Common formats: JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF, NEF, CR2, ARW, PEF, RAF, ORF, DNG, etc.
Videos: Almost all formats of videos.

Common formats: AVI, FLA, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, WMV, etc.
Audios: Almost all formats of audios. Common formats: AAC, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, MP3, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA, etc.
Emails: Microsoft Outlook and OFT Email are available for preview. Common formats: MSG, PST, OST, EML, EMLX, MBOX, etc.
Other Files For Windows computer, it supports the files that are undamaged and less than 30 MB; For Mac computer, it supports all kinds of files that are undamaged and less than 15 MB.

Storage Device Supported

Types Device Model
Computer/laptop Recover lost data on a computer or laptop, regardless of the computer operating systems and brands, like Dell, IBM, HP, Toshiba, Sony and so on.
Internal hard disk Retrieve data from hard disk drive (HDD), solid state drive (SSD), and many more, even though it's uninitiated, unallocated or crashed.
External hard drive Get data back deleted from all brands of external disk or lost on an external drive that is corrupted, damaged, formatted, or undetected.
USB flash drive Bring data back from USB flash drive, pen drive, thumb drive and flash memory stick, regardless of the file systems (FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, HFS, APFS, etc).
Camera Lost photos and videos can be recovered from various brands of digital cameras, DJI/GoPro Drone cameras, action cameras, camcorder, etc.
Memory card Support data recovery from all kinds of memory cards, like CF card, SD card, MMC, SmartMedia, xD-Picture card, MiniSD card, MicroSD card, etc.
SD card Recover photos, videos & files from SD/SDHC/SDXC card or the device with SD card, like Android phone, audio recorder, music/video player, etc.
Other Storage media Recover over 1000 types and formats of data from a wide range of data storage devices, including the mentioned ones, iPod (Nano, Classic & Shuffle), cell phone, and many more.

Recover Files Lost Due to Different Causes

Causes Details of Causes
Accidental deletion
  • "Shift + Del" without backup
  • Deleting files by right- clicking menu or just pressing ‘Delete’ button
  • Emptying Recycle Bin without backup
Formatting
  • "Media/Drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?"
  • Disk initialization when digital camera memory card is just connected
  • Unexpectedly formatted hard drive
Improper operation
  • Factory setting of device without backup
  • Turning off the storage media during the writing process
  • Using card between different cameras
  • Pulling out SD card while the camera is on
  • Improper partition or partition error
Other reasons
  • Virus infection
  • Unexpected power off
  • Reinstalled windows system or hard disk crash
  • The partition structure on a hard disk was fragmented or its table is invalid.

Repair Video Files Corrupted Due to Different Reasons

Reasons Details of Reasons
File Transfer Error
  • Video compression issues
  • Export/Transfer interrupted
  • File read and write errors
  • Interruption during transfer
Camera/Memory Card Error
  • Insufficient space on a phone/camera internal storage or SD Card
  • Dead battery
  • Improper camera settings
  • Camera App crash
  • Bad sectors on storage media where video files are stored, codec issues, OS failure, header corruption, etc.
  • Use of bad SD card
Video recording Error
  • Any interruption such as network instability, power failure, improper system crash, server error while downloading video from internet
  • Battery dead during recording
Improper operation
  • Conversion of video to other file formats failed
  • Change in video format
  • Corrupted while using a video editing tool
  • Recovered video corrupted
  • Playing videos on unreliable media players
Other reasons
  • Sudden power surge or power off while playing, opening, transferring or editing videos
  • Improper systems shutdown
  • Device crash, collision, water damage, blow, hard landing, shock, dropped, fell, etc.

System Requirements

Windows Operating Systems Windows 11/Windows 10/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows Vista/Windows Server 2022/Windows Server 2019/Windows Server 2016/Windows Server 2012/Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2003
Mac Operating Systems macOS 13: Ventura/macOS 12: Monterey/macOS 11: Big Sur/macOS 10.15: Catalina/macOS 10.14: Mojave (Liberty)/macOS 10.13: High Sierra (Lobo)/macOS 10.12: Sierra (Fuji)/macOS X 10.11: El Capitan (Gala)/macOS X 10.10: Yosemite (Syrah)
Computer File Systems APFS (Encrypted)/ExFAT/FAT16/FAT32/HFS+/Encrypted HFS/HFSX/NTFS/ReFS/Raid/RAW/BTRFS under the Linux OS/ext4 under the Linux OS
Disk 56MB minimum space for Wondershare Recoverit installing
Language Supported English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Korean.

* Some of the above codec formats may need to be supported by system.