List of known file header formats

In addition to filesystem reconstruction, Klennet Recovery can find files by searching for headers of known file types. This allows it to try to recover something if the filesystem is destroyed beyond any recovery. Only specific file header formats listed below are supported.

Format Extensions Notes
7-Zip .7Z 7-Zip archive
ASF .ASF Microsoft Advanced Systems Format, audio and/or video
.WMA
.WMV
AU .AU Audacity Audio
BMP .BMP Bitmap Image
.DIB Device Independent Bitmap
CHM .CHM Compiled Help Manual, legacy format
FLAC .FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLV .FLV Flash Video
GIF .GIF
JPEG .JPG, .JPEG
MIDI .MID General MIDI audio
.GM
.AW
.FM
MKV .MKV Generic MKV media container
.WEBM Web video
MOBI .MOBI Mobipocket eBook file
MP4 .MP4 Generic MP4 video
.M4A MP4, audio only
.M4V MP4, video only
.LRV GoPro Low Resolution Video
OLE Structured Storage .DOC, .DOT Microsoft Word
.PPT, .POT Microsoft Power Point
.XLS, .XLT, .XLA Microsoft Excel
.VSD Microsoft Visio
.SUO MS Visual Studio solution file
.SNT Windows 7 Sticky Notes
PCX .PCX Picture Exchange image
PDF .PDF Adobe PDF
PSD .PSD Adobe Photoshop image
PNG .PNG
RAR .RAR RAR archive
RIFF .AVI AVI video
.MDL MS Flight Simulator Scenery
.WAV WAV audio
.WEBP WEBP image
RTF .RTF Rich Text Format
SQLite .SQLITE SQLite database
.DB3
SVG .SVG SVG Vector Graphics
TIFF .TIF Tagged Image File Format (both big-endian and little-endian)
WOFF .WOFF Web Open Font Format
XML .XML
ZIP .ZIP ZIP archive
.DOCX Microsoft Word
.PPTX Microsoft Power Point
.XLSX Microsoft Excel
.ODT Open Office document
.ODS Open Office spreadsheet
.ODP Open Office presentation
.EPUB Ebook (Electronic Publication)