Klennet Carver

Standalone examples of this class are few and far between. Mostly, the simple carving is integrated into general-purpose recovery software. ZAR implements a simple header-footer carving for its' free image recovery mode. Traditional file recovery knows the format of the filesystem being recovered. A filesystem recovery tool is made to understand specific filesystems (like FAT or NTFS). It knows nothing about what is inside the files. A carving tool, on the contrary, is made to understand specific file formats (like JPEG or ZIP).

It knows nothing about what is outside the files, about the filesystem and its metadata.