X-Ways Forensics is a world-renowned and comprehensive computer forensics and analysis tool for Windows, Windows Server and Windows PE/FE (Forensic Environment), developed by X-Ways Software Technology from Germany. It is mainly used for computer forensics, data recovery, underlying data processing and IT security fields, etc.

Cerbero is an advanced, professional malware classification and file security analysis tool for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. It was designed to inspect the structure, code and many other things of dozens of file formats for reversing, malware triage, forensics or software development purpose.

The causes of loss of data are nothing else than the following several common ones: accidentally deleted files/folders; formatted some partition or the entire hard drive (which often happens during the reinstallation of OS); due to wrong operations (unexpected or forcible shutdown, direct or forced pullout, etc.), the invalid partition table error occurred in hard disk, USB flash drive, SD Card and other storage devices, so that they couldn't be identified or just identified as RAW format.