Supported Storage Media

VirtualLab can be used to recover data from the following types of devices:

  • IDE HDD (this is what your computer probably uses)
  • SCSI HDD (usually an external hard drive)
  • RAID volumes
  • Dynamic drives
  • Zip/Jaz drive
  • Compact Flash cards and other disk-like media that use an HFS file system to store files

Note: The current version of VirtualLab does not support CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs or tape devices.

Supported File Systems

VirtualLab supports the following file systems:

  • HFS (used on older Macs and some small-sized media like Compact Flash cards for digital cameras)
  • HFS+ (used by newer Macs and on iPods)