Synology NAS Devices
Synology are one of the most common brands for Network Attached Storage devices both in the home and workplace. Synology provides a complete range of NAS devices scaling from small desktop boxes to large enterprise machines that comprise scores of drive The company has two major product lines: DiskStation models are primarily designed for households […]
Raw Data Recovery
I spoke previously about the fat file system and how primarily it’s used with flash drives , camera memory cards and micro sd cards in phones see here. Today I want to talk about the need for raw data recovery on the above media where the fat file system has become corrupted and your files […]
Data Corruption USB drives SD cards
A very common problem is when people come to me with cards (SD Cards, Compact Flash Cards) ,see pic below, from cameras where photos are missing. The same problems can occur with USB or flash drives and Micro SD cards from mobile phones. Invariably I start talking about file systems , in this case the […]
Data Backup – the best Data Recovery Solution
I want to talk in this post about dedicated backup solutions which is always the best method to avoid the hassle and cost of data recovery. Many people tend to think that have this covered by using such programs as OneDrive , google docs or ICloud however there are important differences between these products and […]
Dolphin DVR Pro
Dolphin DVR Pro. Business Version adopts the world’s latest DVR/CCTV video recovery technologies, capture each fragmented video file, collects each video and audio frame, restructure the found fragmented video files automatically, and is able to recover deleted videos, recover formatted videos and recover lost videos due to video surveillance device initialization. Features and Advantages of […]
Apple Mac Drives
This article is a guide on the different types of drives found in Imacs , Macbooks, Macbook Pros and Macbook Air computers. The need for this article is due the fact Apple use many different and completely proprietary drives which make the task of data recovery that much more complicated. The picture above is of […]
Data Recovery WD MY Passport
I just wanted to show to you how we go about diagnosing hard drives so that we can understand what repairs need to be performed on the drive. The process of Data Recovery is in fact the repair of the failed WD My Passport drive so that data can be recovered. WD My Passport hard […]
The Case of the Water-Damaged Mac
I received a 160gb Fujitsu hard drive from a client which had a damaged PCB , it later turned out that the drive was from an early macbook which had been dropped in salt water while it was still running. When I first received the drive it was not clear exactly what computer the drive […]
Decrypting WD MyBook Hard Drives
This is an article I have been meaning to do for some time and discusses the odd occurrence where if the first sector a WD MyBook external hard drive fails the decryption does not engage and the drive becomes unreadable. While there are off the shelf tools to perform decryption I will be using open […]
Universal Revil Decryptor
I am thrilled to announce that Bitdefender has released a remarkable decryption tool for the Revil/Sodinokibi ransomware. You can easily download it from the following link: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/labs/bitdefender-offers-free-universal-decryptor-for-revil-sodinokibi-ransomware/. Recently, I successfully utilized this tool to recover 100% of the data from a client’s encrypted hard drive, even though it had been 9 months since the initial […]