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RITESH - what have you tried already?

Moderators do pay attention - in fact I almost deleted your post as it looked very much like a spam post.. recommending to go to CNET (a steaming pile of advertising poo) and the seemingly lack of recognising the OP is the forum owner, and a DR Pro. Also, we are not all guns blazing on spam...

yep!

seems there is a hidden tag I'd never seen before either. hides from people not logged in(guests) I believe.

Roger that, have a great time!

No. especially as . +1 Larry. Book yourself into a different doctor and tell them your concerns. ask for an in depth explanation of your condition, and also what is likely to develop in the future if untreated, and with recommended treatment. If they say similar to the first doctor, ask...

I also use a few custom search terms, and I think it is pretty powerful. I don't have my cheat sheet reference txt file here, but for example the main ones I use are to strip out all the rubbish from flash drives when recovering. find all the MS Office Temp files that start with a tilde...

actually looks like they have been around for at leasthttp://harddrivedatarecoverytube.b ... bowie.html a little while. This page appears to go back to Nov 2014 http://harddrivedatarecoverytube.blogsp ... bowie.html and july 2013 https://itsolutionsrhodeisland.wordpress.com/author/techbowie/...

Breaking Bad MEMES FTW!

don't see it either...

Its always.. blah, blah, blah.. Backblaze. I read the Backblaze study, now I am an expert in failure rates. It gets old, fast. I tell people that insist on using backblaze to make a decision to make sure they also buy the same hardware it was tested on to make sure they get the same results.

Don't think you can buy the devices themselves yet. Or adapters. Samsung have a slot they have designed that will take a microSD and a UFS card, but the only place so far UFS has been used is in mobile devices.. S6 and S7 phones for example.. and these were just BGA chips not MicroSD cards...

So the fee was $3600? Nice to be able to recover, but basically no-one is going to fork out that.

That's the easiest way, but you can extract the XOR from a drive as well that isn't prepared. It is described on the Rusolut site, but less experience in Flash means it will be a bit challenging to follow. Plus there are many different types, and some controllers don't XOR blank space etc.

No Problem, send the link. Bad columns will be obvious, there will be staggered vertical lines, each the same size as a block.

what is the controller number? pics of both sides of pcb is helpful as well. sometimes there is bad columns that are done in controller firmware and not using chip bad column file, are you sure there is no bad columns? if you want to upload dump to drobpox, I can have a look and see if I can...

data/ spare areas can be made up in a variety of ways. can have pages like : data|sa||data|sa||data|ecc||data|ecc|| data|ecc|data|ecc|data|ecc|data|ecc| sa | data|data|sa||data|data|sa|| you probably have data areas joined together and all sa for the page at the end. data areas are...

I have 6 chips listed for that ID when I put the number in the identifier filter on the right. I would choose one of those chips and look at the dump in the bitmap viewer. The pages should "line up" and you should clearly see the SA's all lining up as you scroll down. I wouldn't muck about...

Hi, a few things: - Always include flash numbers such as SanDisk SDTNSCAMA-008G or whatever, and type of chip, LGA / TSOP etc... Photos if unsure. - You installed the Reader Drivers right? - In VNR software, up top right, click on the "reader" object and what is the reader firmware? It will be...

#FAMOUSLASTWORDS but then you go ahead and compare it! :-) you could get 10 cases in a row that is more complex when you add all the variables. Flash recovery almost sent me around the bend and up the creek in a barbed wire canoe with no paddle this year.... advice, get help as soon as you...

Sasha and a few others from Rusolut (VNR) are from there. I am not sure of the exact business model or situation, but I believe Rusolut is started by a few guys from D3 as either an extra arm of the company or its own entity. Either way, You probably wouldn't find smarter guys anywhere.

what I mean is, how to know all the parameters and algorithms on the left of the equation that truly equals the right side. Kind of hard to explain, but simplified: algo(A) = C where A is the user input, C is the answer. lets say C= "222" and the algo is {input + input} A = 111 algo(111) =...

Okay, for the record I don't know anything about the implementation in WD HDDs.. but, I am thinking: do you know what algorithm you can use to simulate the WD? I mean, what exactly are you going to process? Have you ripped some code from the WD or are able to somehow know what to test...

I can vouch for HESK. I use it at one of my Edu sites as a help desk ticket system. I don't need or use many features though, but I bet it has a lot more to offer than what I use. I downloaded a VM of it ready to go, setup was a piece of cake.

This has come up a few times and IIRC the general consensus was either build one from a customisable software package or from scratch. But you might find the converstaions on HDDGuru. This one is one Ive been thinking of trying: https://www.bitrix24.com/ This is an interesting service to...

I'm with Jared on this. but not brute force... using a decent wordlist with some well defined rules can bring some pretty good results. a 64 char pass would be very uncommon, as well as anything over 9 chars. But I don't agree with doing it only for law enforcement. Ive seen too many people...

Thought I would make a topic where you can link to some awesome work in the field... For starters, this is a nice write-up, and the graphics are pretty spectacular!! :-) http://cheeky4n6monkey.blogspot.com.au/

well first I want them to become more easily recoverable.. then a crap-tonne of them to fail with easily recoverable issues! :-)~

I wouldn't get too worried initially, it is probably someone upgrading the site software or mucking about with configuration or features, and they will get it right sooner or later.

I am in the city as well, but very close to an expressway out, it is 25 - 30 mins to where the horse is agisted. a bit of a pain and not as good as living on a property with it, but she is happy

Yea mate, fair dinkum;-)

or have spent hours out, then trying to get some work done before child with a new horse gets home from school and the rest of the day is shot

There is always speculation about the skill required and resources required to do this sort of malware. this isn't like Stuxnet where a massive amount of extra knowledge was needed such as Siemens SCADA stuff, and some pretty decent rootkit type knowledge. Also the targeting requires quite a...

Thanks, IMHO a very important topic.

Home basic came on real cheap netbooks, such as Acer one's and EeePC's or whatever they were. It was a really crap version of Windows if you were at all used to enterprise/pro/ultimate versions.

Hi Jared, a couple of comments. Obviously mine will be flash-centric :) 1) the choice between monolith and PCB - many customers haven't opened the device and wouldn't even think to do so, or would be afraid to, so IMHO a new option "I don't know" is needed. Many people don't know what...

pretty impressive work maximus, I have 2 drives here which I plan to test out. I am not a conventional HDD guy so the feedback from someones perspective of just stumbling on the tool that might be attempting DIY may be useful. what happens when someone tries to use it on an SSD? I see it is...

Only this week on one of the podcasts I mentioned they talked about a guy that bought an IP camera on ebay - pre-loaded with malware. I myself was buying lots of flash drives on ebay, I think I even posted on HDDGuru about when at least 3 had malware on them. I suspect they had been sitting...

agree, but I will go a step further: the average joe knows so little about computers that they cant even backup effectively anymore. average house: * 1 - 4 iphones, an ipad or 2 ... do they even REALLY know what iCloud is, or encrypted backups, or where the backups are, or.. or... or?? * 2 or...

I agree, I stay current with as much InfoSec as I can, and try to with forensic info as well, though there isn't as much content produced for forensics as there is InfoSec. I believe with all the ransomware, and the way it is crossing over to the DR field with filesystems being messed with and...

That would be a nice feature and an obvious oversight if it didn't exist. imagine a 4TB drive imaged with ddrescue and needing only a few MB from the hardware imager.. would cut down job times enormously, and also much less work the disk has to do for more chance of fail.

probably less a porn site, but more emails.. start opening email attachments that end in .zip, or running some MS Office macros ;)

interesting, I am sure there would be some customers. I would say create a webpage to explain your service, with some before and after images as proof/description of what is obtainable. Not sure you could find customers until they need you. I would be interested in some before and after...

There is a DDI4 on HDDGuru for sale

And I thought you had standards! What did the poor guy do to you to deserve that kind of punishment?? :)

possible the files are corrupted fat, crosslinked or orphaned? maybe a bug where temp files not correctly destroyed..

"would be awesome" ? Hey Jared, it is already awesome ;-) Great work Maximus, I wish I had your commitment and such quick results.

The whole situation is disturbing. even if they caught every single criminal involved in this, the code is still out on the net and would be infecting people, but there would then be no way to get your files back. It is only a matter of time before this malware affects real human life. I just...

These criminals that are doing the locky variant probably have no idea of the heat they have on them now. Especially after infecting the hospitals... I am guessing the eyes looking for everyone involved have never been greater. I hope they like reading, because that's about all they wil be...

Nice, thanks. Always good to have such clear docs

If this is the Michael Cotgrove I am thinking of, I don't think you will find better software for video recovery. Video is notorious for being hard to recover in most software, but Michael has been doing some amazing work for years. If it is, he's been in software longer than video has even...

"Sara" This is a single time warning that if you are representative of a data recovery you must say so. advertising is fine if you are open about it. First, his name is Jared, not Jade. Second this is advertising, through the fake homepage, for Remo Recover. Dodgy business practices will...

BTW, sometimes access is granted back, but "banned user" still shows. I Just pm'd Dmitry and he fixed it. Also, Ive noticed a few posters on hddguru that reply to a post, but use vague "this is really great, I like your work" type things. they seem to be human, but the relatively low post...

Thanks, I will take a look and post fiindings. I cant promise a timeframe as I have a lot of things going at once, but this sort of thing is my go-to for "down time"

I don't know if it is heavy handed, maybe, but in my case, made the point well and I hope I have not re-offended. I treat forums conversationary, and I guess that sometimes means a comment where none is required. I guess when one comes to a forum several times a day, 2 weeks is a hell of a long...

I would need some files that were extracted from the database, and the exact database. I don't have PC3k, and no context of these files, but if I had a database and files extracted, I think I could reverse it.

If I can get some examples of PCR Database, and extracted files from them, I may be able to write a tool for this.

You may not want to rely on this function even when it has it. Reading up on it seems that it is not foolproof: more info on this reference: http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/39644-wellon-eprom-programmer-and-auto-detection-of-eproms

Larry, I have a bookmark in the bookmarks bar with all my forums. This forum is https://www.data-medics.com/forum/search.php?search_id=unreadposts In all my browsers except Edge, my homepage is the unread link for all forums, that way I can open the browser and all unread posts from everything...

that's a really nice feature, thanks :)

HaHa! it is fun to wreck things once in a while isn't it? :-)

Larry, you probably could do with one of these: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Programmer-Testing-Clip-SOP-SOIC-8-SOIC8-DIP8-DIP-8-SOP8-Pin-IC-Test-Clamp-/381444369191

rub it in guys, rub IT IN!

So what you are saying is they are dying so soon that they don't even have time for physical damage? ;-)

But the 60% that don't fail too soon will be $20 bucks cheaper than anyone else and the SandForce will be slightly faster, though unnoticeable, and use really cool (invisible to the user) algorithms and keep the data safe from people that wouldn't ever access it that way to steal it anyway.. So...

If you like I will PM him for you and see if he can contact you, or at least explain. A tight ship indeed! :)

Just message Dmitri.. It happened to me, and was actually a valid ban as I replied to spammer with a joke instead of reporting it..

A merry Xmas to all my friends here :) and if I have any enemies.. you too..What the heck, IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!

Just thinking how easy this would be to adapt to an open source hardware imager. a Low cost Linux SBC, a case.. I think having a range of products could help make it your only job, sort of like different levels of product. Then you could hone a lean Linux distro to suit perfectly.

out of 13 posts, 4 times you have said this. the OP has already stated that he has installed driver and it did not help. twice I have said that the USB drivers will not help . OP - I think this forum may have some answers for you: http://en.miui.com/thread-16421-1-1.html regards

keeping all the stackable storage boxes exactly the same size really helps, different sizes and shapes really looks ugly and is not space friendly. Always clearly label things with a labeller, and same size shape labels if you want it to look profesh. don't skimp on bench space, and if you...

For hdd's and flash drives, I take a pic of the whole lot the customer gives with the job number card in the picture. I have had too many give wrong cables, no cables but say they did and even dispute that it was the actual hard disk I recovered! the usual stuff they said as well. Also helps...

how about http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/categories/departments/secondary_storage/10397/

and I will add that there is nothing standard. flash memory devices, including SSD consist of a fairly small group of components I have over 600 Flash memory devices consisting of USB, CF, MicroSD, SDHC, SDXC, Memory stick etc.. and as far as I know there is probably under5 that have exactly...

makes more sense to run from a Live USB with a decent portion of free space for changes. frees up another SATA port as a bonus.

someone needs to setup high speed cameras inside hard disks so we can all get a visual. I assume this would not be as simple as it sounds!

start issuing diagnostic reports including "Drive damaged by previous attempts" or "drive appears to be subjected to unusually high workloads, destroying heads"

ouch!! gotta say, a "donate-a-PC3000-UDMA-to-a-struggling-Aussie" video would have been way more exciting ;-)

no I don't always, but sometimes :) Once chip is dumped, just laptop and readers for software activation

Yes, I travel so much I do recovery work whenever I can get the chance. Remember I do flash, so don't need to lug around HDD tools ;-)

same, though I get him to take a picture of the label on his phone, and I do the same. I don't even trust paperwork with this guy.

USB drivers, vendor software etc will not give the OP the phone as a disk. You are going to probably need a JTAG Box or some other fancy tool. look in pone hacking forums or unlocking forums for there tools and the functionality the tools have. IMHO the result you want and the path you think...

One computer shop I do work for often spends 5 mins shuffling through bunches of drives looking for the customer one they want me to look at. and a list of things I have seen at this shop: - a pile of about 6 - 10 drives just fall over. - owner break USB header off portable drive - more than...

Yes they are around. fortunately the biggest I've had is still 64GB, but was still a PITA as My laptop I do recoveries on didn't have the free space. And it wont be long before single NAND chips are 1TB, so I have no idea how the recovery machines are going to cope.. but I am also worried...

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don't forget it could cost a "big" company a million bucks to run for a year - a dozen engineers, building, software/hardware purchase/maintenance contracts/licensing, electricity/gas/water, etc etc etc. so they need to get more jobs in(advertising) and also charge a decent price. what the...

don't get SPAM confused with malware and phishing attempts. anything with a .zip attachment, .pdf or lately, docx, is a likely malware attempt, and is a click away from something serious such as cryptolocker. I see a lot of people a little blasé about "spam" and don't realise they are a bee's...

Great :) nice to see that someone is enjoying this stuff, and enough to keep learning through the challenges. keep it up :)

Booyah!

maybe encrypted?

I am hesitant to predict too much, as we see lots in the news, in press releases and people saying whats "on the horizon". things such as 3D NAND, if you listened to people a year or 2 ago, should by now have been everywhere, but there has been no big upset yet. There is just too many working...

The size has an impact on time, storage, processing time and greater chances for parts of the dump to contain errors... so it makes our jobs cost more, which in turn lowers the number of cases customers accept. But this is a worry if encryption doesn't kill the chances before you even start...

Yes it really goes to show that computing is getting complicated now. With iCloud/dropbox/google drive/etc, many people don't know what they have or don't have, or where it is saved. I had the same thing, twice, from a computer shop that outsources to me. He gave me a drive, I was surprised...

interesting, I hadn't heard much about 3.1 I wonder why, when usb3 was released in 2010, flash drive manufacturers and laptop vendors haven't just switched over and are still producing USB2.0 at a large rate. I would have thought this change wouldn't be all that hard to implement. I wonder...

Actually re-reading that, I think I made it look like a TSOP is a walk in the park and it is definitely not the case. I am sure there will be an amount of useful info directly applicable to all types of recovery, monolith or no. I don't use ACEs kit. I wonder if they will be showing off their...

"It was next to impossible to recover data from monolithic flash devices in the past." This is WILDLY exaggerated. if you know pinout, after solder and dump many times the recovery is no different than a TSOP But still wishing I could somehow get to USA :(

Yes, spent should said received! had it right in my head, not customed to thinking in millions and billions ! I don't think reported numbers of others mean too much to us personally too much at all. we all will see one company doing well, another in the space doing poorly, the one doing well...

I have no clue about business, so this is all pretty interesting. Did some Googling, and seems really low if you put it in tech hardware and equipment category. I am guessing storage vendors have insane R&d, acquisition, legal/patent/IP protection costs tough. This is 2012, but shows...

Unless you figure out some easy recoveries for DM, then order that Ferrari.. What I found weird was some of the figures being reported. http://www.securityworldhotel.com/na/News/Business-News/wd-publishes-solid-results1#.Vb0pwMsw9xQ so without going into why, in the previous 3 quarters their...

I suspect video card / driver related issue. playing a video -and, browsing now has quite a bit of relatively new video requirements. I know there are settings in IE related to using the GPU or software for rendering some video. so makes sense when browsing actually. It will only get better...

c'mon, a blue screen is mandatory apon first install ;)

If you put an SSD in the core2duo, it is actually not bad. I have revived 50 Gov core2duo based PCs with win8.1, office 2013 and all is quite snappy. Still probably want at least 4GB RAM, and probably wouldn't be too great for a PC that does a lot of different stuff. general workstation is fine.

Interesting for sure. There is a lot of technology acronyms getting thrown around at the moment - all with a common set of themes.. unreliable manufacturing / too expensive to produce compared to NAND / Too expensive to build the factories / performance is not a "deal breaker" and the tech...

Yes, can't wait :) "I didn't do nothing" "windows said my data would be kept" "Where is my data, all I did was format and install windows" "I dunno, I just clicked ok,ok,ok and ok" :-)

I stay logged in for long periods - weeks. I have the "remember me" ticked and no issues. IE11+windows 7

I am guessing Alcor based.. or IDE 51xxxx (which I think is rebadged/pirated Alcor anyway)

Those things are notorious for being hard to keep. They have a large range of life, meaning they need a huge enclosure closely mimicking their natural habitat. also they fight with same sex, sometimes to the death :) And those claws HURT! :) I agree they are cute little buggers! :)

yes.. was cheap, This is one of those jobs where it was kind of a mate - not a close mate but he lives in a country town, said PC shop is in a country town and they all talk. He talked the owner of disk to give it to me, so I had something to prove I guess.. The bank apparently paid $83,000...

and by the utterly useless first post. Now I need to go to a car forum and post that you can avoid accidents by always driving safely...

maybe, but if you already don't know much about JTAG, or how to do it and don't have the tools... there isn't much in the way of help on a start to finish way to do it. exception is if you buy one of the many mobile tools like RIFF box or easyJTAG that is used for unbricking, and help is there...

I had one: computer shop tried and no luck. I hooked it up to a PC SATA Port, it imaged with no issues, full recovery using PFaM to mount the partition in the image. I actually don't think there is anything wrong with the disk. Customer said they were deleting a virus from the computer when...

I approved this post, BUT I do not condone telling users normal usage of iCloud and iTunes is "data recovery" Are you affiliated with any iPhone Data recovery software company at all?

After recovery if the criminals do keep their word, it is imperative to go through the data with a fine tooth comb, and make sure there isn't an infection waiting to happen again, and also that the system is not still vulnerable to the way it was infected. I have heard of scenarios that the...

I heard the other day on a comp security podcast that Australia had the most victims of crypto malware to population ratio in the world. Though I haven't had a case yet, I hear it mentioned a lot. Interestingly the horror stories of what they were charged and how the "tech" actually "fixed" the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLwLhiNb00 12:21 ! oh, really.. sorry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLwLhiNb00 13:33

Yes, But I think it is more related to different versions of Android handling encryption differently.

the feeling you have right at the moment you hit delete on the customer data.. after a week from a successful recovery, or a declined quote.. is indescribable. Always just doesn't feel right!

That argument has been around, and the flaw I see is that what happens when a crazy govt gets elected and suddenly things that used to be acceptable are no longer.. and you have things out in public that "incriminate" you with the new govt. Every time you lose a human right, it is gone for...

You have no location history from May 6, 2015 to June 4, 2015 :-) Sneaky little snake aren't I ? :-)

:-) spite1 hehe don't show fear around storage media.. It is like dogs, can smell fear!

This is eMMC, the NAND can probably be read by using the info at the PSP Vita NAND reading page.. on the way to work, can link later if you can't find it.. I am about to do one later today or tomorrow.. but my holdup was getting a good .8v voltage source. I ordered a 0-30vdc lab benchtop power...

I wonder how many divorces have been because someone found XDA Forums? "You never come to bed with me anymore!?! what are you doing on the computer??"

A "Donor drive" is a drive you buy to take parts from, such as heads or PCB... you would use these parts to repair a patient drive enough to recover data

Divi is an awesome theme, It was in my top 3 actually :) I chose "mixer" as I am doing it myself and wanted a simpler theme.

http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ very handy if you want to get inspiration from another website. If the theme is customised a bit it may not detect it, but it also detects plugins which can be handy

you could implement a rudimentary background opener for each file type that this lends itself to. for example, there are multiple applications from many vendors that can open word docs. why not have a module that can open word docs without it opening graphically? See if there is an error such...

welcome! Refreshing to see someone upfront :)

I also like DMDE for almost instant info on the disk situation in windows, and Partition Find and mount.. Though DMDE has all the features of it, I like its simplicity and "does what it says on the box"-ness

solved by a tiny fan in the SSD Case?

I don't think the shift to SSDs will be as slow as some people think. Current SSDs are getting tricky enough. If one waits for even a year before they start focusing R&D into DR on these, it may be impossible to pickup at that time. With all the NSA stuff as well, push to make things secure...

nice, thanks.!. I love the term "short-stroked" lol!

Agree. I think you NEED a good looking website. All other forms of social media should point back to your website. You shouldn't plant your seeds in someone elses garden.. meaning don't rely on facebook to be a certain way because they are constantly doing things to their traffic algorithms...

I think it has gone live now where they also are giving more weight to sites that are responsive (designed to suit mobile devices as well).

nice ;) works really well, and yes the good old days :)

This sort of thing shouldn't be rushed, and best drawn up by your lawyer. If you were ever called in to question by it, it is extremely important to have got right. Otherwise you are going to have to find someone that can give you a template. but make sure it applies to your business. you...

second them

Larry

Luke, hit the nail on the proverbial...

Thanks Jared for the tips. Adelaide is pretty small, and I have reach into a few different communites and industries, so as a start I was hoping to tie it together a little. quite a few of my friends and family are facebook fanatics, and this was a fairly easy starting point. As for the sig...

Sounds fair enough!

I always ban the spammers, maybe delete banned members? I agree it is hard.

Hi David, Welcome!

yes going well :) Would it be possible to remove all the spam accounts? I know it is a bit of a question to remove 0 posts as someone could be lurking, maybe a requirement to say hello, or remove after 3 weeks 0 posts or something?

Hi, well I have succumbed to the evils of facebook after having to decide to do it or be nagged to death by the masses. I took notice of Jared harping on about SEO etc, and thought that it looks worth while. I am nearly done with a new website I have coded myself (with help from a Twitter...

That is brilliant!

Good one, great to see a positive result! :)

quote bug. ever notice the quote button is broken?

Me neither, but I guess they are all using the same parts, and I also think there wouldn't be many SSD firmware shops that sell their technology to the actual brand name vendors. If the controller was Sandforce or a another that is unfriendly to DR, then it is a no-brainer - don't touch it, or...

Once you have it entered into anything, excel, Google spreadsheet, access, SQL whatever, writing a report sheet or edit form is easy as well. You would save a ton of money splitting the tasks, and also there are services online where you can hire a coder to do something small, usually pretty...

Spider: Who the **** are you anyway? Johnny Mnemonic: Johnny. Spider: Johnny who? Johnny Mnemonic: Just... Johnny?

hehe.. the old switcheroo!

Why make an instructional video, then all the way through say "you should never do it this way"?? It might be interesting to someone that doesn't know what is in a HDD, but maybe not best idea to do it under a data recovery moniker.. If you should use gloves, use head changing tools, then don't...

Thanks for the insight into the specifics ISOBuster, always good to know more. I remembered the brand of my 1st ever burner: Traxdata. was supposed to be TheGun. and didn't disappoint :) cheers

maybe the disc wasn't finalised when written?

That's ridiculous.. you have a problem man.. you should get away from the PC and not worry about the forums so much. I make it a rule, though I break it sometimes, to leave a gap between checking for new replies. usually 5 mins, and I am hoping to get it to 10 mins before the end of the year...

It is nearly double the price of SC's NAND Reader and the only adapter useful is the TSOP48. I am a bit sceptical the WL NANDS and all the one we see in the field would be supported. I think these types of programmers are mainly for firmware type NANDs, embedded flash chips, auto chips etc...

Agree with isobuster. also we used to find back in the day of mucho cd burning that some drives would just not like some discs. RW discs the worst culprit. you will just have to keep trying it on different drives, probably older ones would be better, until you find one that it works on. I...

so you are... snowed under? :)

Well being well into my 40's and never actually seen real snow.. that looks awesome! But when you start to think of the logistics of everyday life, and the extra work, decreased mobility etc - hmm not so fun. At least a good excuse not having to go out and waste time visiting real people

we are suffering through heat.. next days: 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 with nights between 22 and 26 for all you on Fahrenheit.. that's 88, 91, 95, 98, 102 with nights 72-79. NOT FUN

well if experience has taught me anything.. it will be snapped connectors due to the insane leverage on the USB header!!

The page uses shockwave plugin.. wow, I thought that was dead years ago. I see no mention of Spectek in the story, but I hope that by supplying flash, they don't mean Spectek. Or do I hoe that, because business will boom with a tonne of really painful recoveries. Be nice if they explained...

Are you allowed to do this for forensic cases? I hear all the time forensic guys on podcasts saying that yu must never change anything on a drive. Surely some changes are required to access data, and as long as it is documented and can be proven that it doesn't effect data, and is needed for...

true. One interesting thing I have found giving out my cards is that a lot of PC repair shops are really happy to pass the recoveries on to me. I don't know if they live in a bubble of their work and don't realise they can outsource quite easily or they don't know much about DR or what, but I...

I think this is going to one of those things that is this, that and everything in between. I personally am starting to realise that you have to treat each job carefully. don't be in a huge rush to say yes, to look at everything, to help everyone. If you are the only tech, you are going to...

I say, bargain! but does it come with your DATA on it as well?? ;)

holy cow, I charged AU$70 to solder wires to broken Micro-usb WD Portable and copy all data to a new drive.. hmm, maybe I ARENT going to become a Millionaire doing DR after all ;)

Hi Larry, My microscope has 2x and 4x objective. eyepieces are WF10X/20. I find 4x perfect for all USB traces, TSOP .5 pitch repairs and monoliths. 2x is perfect for slightly bigger stuff, I like to solder SX card pins under microscope for example as they are bigger, but the gap between...

Seen it a bit, I agree with Jared. Never saw any CP but if I did would definitely report it.

They forgot another key feature: in event of failure, no Data recovery fees! (coz you are S.O.L) :)

Thing is, what exactly are they advertising? IMHO, they seem to be saying they have this in-house tool that has been redesigned to support something to do with Sandforce.. and that Sandforce somehow partnered or some made other such agreement.. maybe just signed an NDA for access to Datasheets...

Personally I think the holy grail for Sandforce is a chip off solution. but what I think these guys are saying is their PCIe thing is accessing the SSD, so maybe they got the inside juice on some vendor terminal commands or something to bring back a bricked device, or unlock a locked one...

Interesting Jared, Thanks for posing. I take a bit of a hard line with these kinds of articles. I could write some things but Ill just say that the article contradicts itself in places, makes comments about ssd's in general and some fairly opinionated claims, but no real info on this ZDATA...

Well I have totally ignored these posts. (Streisand effect!)

I think they are just scratching the surface with showing their technological skill! But yes, they are pretty Groovy!

lol, that article has a nice "ring" to it ;)

lol, the word sensor sensored your sensor word! ;) thanks

"In VNR you can make own ECC by BCH object for new controllers." Holy cow, brainhurt! main problem is there are no "Main Problems". there are around, I would say, 20 common problems, but add to that the uncommon ones. if you take a flash drive you can break it down to several seperate...

I would agree with what I see, most WD problems I see are dropped drives, so unless WD can make un-droppable drives, they are out of luck fixing this! Seagates are probably the lions share of drives, so more out there==more failures, but I think most agree they are crap. I have some Hitachi...

the not blindly scanning everything at startup is good. Also seems a bit less busy, and a bit more intuitive. The mark multiple objects option page looks nice and clean, easy to use. I am always wary of different DR programs aside from GDB and R-Studio, but this one seems good. The feature I...

Easy for you to say Michal!! :)

The only way I see flash viable is to only do flash, which is hard, and might not even work..! but here's hoping ;)

what kind of DVD is it? How was it recorded? If it is a small one from a DVDR type camera, then it may not be finalised properly. DVD's are a PITA. if it is from a camera, then playing the video on the camera outputting to a file is better option, may need to check the manual of camera.

I do, I copy all music, videos, photos, credit card numbers, go through all emails, check all folders for hidden stuff, break into encrypted partitions etc.. at least that's what some people think we do because not only do we spend every waking moment just recovering the drives, but seemingly we...

how bout ripping it, hosting it on youtube then keepvid'n it?

Seems like a straight forward thing but the last time I played around with NTSC was a total nightmare. This is supposed to be good, based on a few forums recommending it, and I have it in links - meaning at one time I at least thought it was worthwile to do so! http://www.dvfilm.com/atlantis/...

nice :)

there is an old saying, don't count your chickens before they hatch ;) but good luck hope it goes all the way through, nice to have something go well occasionally!!

seems that the current spambots are using a very similar algo for all their bot-users. one of the Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Google+ fields is always username plus 2 capitol letters. if there was some way of scripting in using the username as a substring mask for each of those fields...

wow, I have seen some amazing things before... but having your wife post on a computer forum??? THAT is one Leet Feat! ;) But seriously, it is nice to meet you in this context and I hope that the forum can be of use to you in some way for what you do for the business, as well as for Jared with...

are you able to go to your hosting control panel and see what files are logged as accessd or something? Been a while since I tried tracking someones access to my websites, but there should be some indication of it

another one, just banned user first now deleting posts

So I just banned 3 users and deleted around 30 posts of spam. I think maybe they are using an exploit in phpBB or somehow getting around restrictions.

The untapped market is the people that have something die, but assume it is too hard, not recoverable, too expensive, too hard (insert more lame excuses here). This is the group I think would be good to get customers from. I have had many jobs just talking about what I do and someone says...

ooh I want one!!

hate to say it, but facebook. short thanks and nods to customers or pictures every now and again.. things like short speil on a difficult case... but kept upbeat, you HAVE to appear to be enjoying your work, committed and in tune with customers while NEVER bashing any competition. It is a...

What you have to do is go into your control panel, probably cpanel or other, and install from there. Just have a look at the control panel and spend a bit of time getting used to it. After you have installed wordpress from there you can search for, and install templates. After that you edit...

On the other hand, I bought 10 second-hand flash devices and 5 second-hand microdrives from different sellers for the primary purpose of studying for DR and secondary intention of running GetDataBack for fun just to see. Disappointed that all microdrives were blank, and only a single 2GB flash...

Agree, the RuSolut solution for reading chips is great. A full range of adapters already, nice fast reading, a really good method of analysing what power levels work best without reading the chip first and easy power setting. I firmly believe that anyone wanting to do Flash DR needs to have a...

I would be interested in this. BTW you don't need to do USB over network, simply setup a cheap i5 pc with plenty of HDD and RAM and teamviewer will be good. USB over LAN wont help when needing to analyse dumps, so they would still needed to be d/l to my computer for analysis and data mix/image...

not me, I didn't see it what was it?

... but leaves in all the EXIF !

Well first up, you need to learn how to spell "Flash" ;-) seriously though, here are some tips broken down into some kind of order based on importance, not comprehensive, but a starter: Required: ------------ Get a Stereo microscope. doesn't have to be too expensive. I have one of these...

HI Jason, welcome! Actually you probably are not a n00b, and everyone is always learning. The points you made about the business side of it are often forgotten - making Data Recovery a part of your business comes with many challenges, not just the technical ones. cheers, heres to the Best of...

I did the same earlier today

I wouldn't wait too long to get into Flash recovery if you believe at all that SSD's will take over. Flash Recoveries are deceptively difficult to do regularly, and time consuming. There is quite a steep learning curve when you first start doing Flash. Flash is evolving very fast, NANDs are...

Someone registered and posted obscene pictures and I instantly deleted posts, and banned user. I want to stress this won't be tolerated and such posts and content will be removed. Repeated behaviour will result in me tracking and exposing the user responsible.

Yes, true. Voice of reason shines through there Luke. In this case I said the same to the customer, She was very focused on getting reports done and this I think blinded her a bit to the situation, and I also don't think many realise what is involved in some flash recoveries.. so I let her off...

Yes Luke, problem with flash recoveries is they can be VERY time consuming. Most people try and somehow relate the recovery cost with the actual device cost.. which is 2 figures totally unrelated to each other!

Yes, I have started seeing more come in. I think it is due to the price dropping so much there is a huge amount in circulation.

I had a Flash Drive from a teacher. She needed to do reports and had most done on the flash drive. I received it Friday I told her that if I had it over the weekend, I could know definate by sunday night if recoverable or not. So I work on it during weekend with no result, until I figure out...

Hi, Thanks to Data Medics for opening up a new Data Recovery Forum. I am sure there will be the usual debate about whether or not another DR forum is needed. Well I have no input to that, I am joining because it IS a DR Forum and I like to see what is going on in the DR field regardless of...