Home

ByteRescue

Storage Analysis & Data Recovery

ByteRescue is a read-oriented desktop utility for Windows: storage analysis, file inspection, hashing, hex viewing, and signature/text-based data recovery.

Current release: 0.7.0 · Status: Early development

ByteRescue is intentionally conservative about recovery claims. It does not guarantee recovery of every file type, filesystem, or deleted file — see Recovery Signatures and Supported File Systems for exactly what is and isn't implemented.

Start here

I want to...	Go to
Install and run ByteRescue	Installation
See what the app can do	Features
Take a tour of the GUI / do my first recovery	Using ByteRescue
Use the byte-level Hex Viewer	Hex Viewer
Understand the Recovery Center's four modes	Recovery Center
Know exactly which file formats are recoverable	Recovery Signatures
Know which filesystems are supported	Supported File Systems
Do recovery safely	Best Practices
Fix a problem	Troubleshooting
Understand a limitation or a common question	FAQ
Look up a term used across these pages	Glossary
See what's not implemented yet / what's planned	Roadmap
Read the logs or turn on debug output	Logging and Debugging
Understand the codebase layout	Project Structure
Understand how carving/scanning actually works internally	How It Works
Add support for a new file format	Adding a New Signature
Run the test suite	Testing
Contribute code	Contributing
Report a security issue	Security Policy
See what changed between versions	Changelog

What is ByteRescue?

ByteRescue helps you:

• Analyze physical drives and storage devices (metadata only)
• Inspect files and folders at the byte level (Hex Viewer)
• Attempt to recover deleted-but-not-yet-overwritten data using signature carving, text-pattern search, or FAT12/16/32 directory-table recovery
• Understand drive health and storage characteristics
• Perform read-only analysis — ByteRescue does not currently do forensic-grade acquisition (hashed imaging, chain-of-custody, write-blocking enforcement); it's a read-oriented analysis tool, not a certified forensic suite

Project links

• Repository: github.com/ItsJeffTheDev/ByteRescue
• Releases: Releases
• Report a bug: New bug report
• Request a feature: New feature request
• License: MIT

Project tags

data-recovery file-recovery storage-analysis forensics windows python gui hex-viewer disk-analysis file-carving ntfs fat32 open-source mit-license