by Digby Saunders | Mar 14, 2022 | Data Recovery, EXT4
Ever wanted to get at your lost data on a Linux drive but were frustrated to find that Windows cannot read Linux drives. Windows in it’s infinite wisdom cannot out of the box read Linux partitioned drives which typically has the EXT4 filesystem. There are a...
by Digby Saunders | Feb 27, 2022 | Backup Systems, Bad Sectors, Data Recovery
I had a client call me this week about a $120,000 piece of equipment which was no longer working. The device in question was a Heidelberg Platesetter which employed a Dell Workstation to run the software which controls the platesetter. The dell workstation would...
by Digby Saunders | Feb 14, 2022 | Data Recovery, Hard Drives
I am increasingly seeing laptops that were purchased in the last 18 months that have been bitlocker enabled but the owners were unaware of this nor did they have the RECOVERY ID. This is a major problem should anything go wrong and data recovery is required....
by Digby Saunders | Feb 9, 2022 | Data Recovery
Important structures of a HFS Plus volume: BOOT BLOCKS Sectors 0 and 1 of the volume are found here. VOLUME HEADER is founder at sector 2, . The Volume Header stores the size of allocation blocks, a timestamp for volume creation , the location of other volume...
by Digby Saunders | Jan 23, 2022 | Data Recovery
. Google Drive is a cloud storage service that provides the benefits of flexible storage. Users can create folders and upload files/folders from their computer and because a manual upload can take time and be disrupted . Google offers a syncing service via a local...
by Digby Saunders | Jan 22, 2022 | Data Recovery
As ZFS is more than just a file system, it is a combination of a file system with a logical volume manager,and its design is very different from any other file system type and it requires an individual approach to data recovery. ZFS makes it possible to create a file...
by Digby Saunders | Jan 8, 2022 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives
Logical Volume Manager is a disk manager which allows spanning partitions across many devices and enables partition resizing. It has been in the Linux kernel since 1999 and relying on its device mapper framework, is now supported by every modern distribution. It...
by Digby Saunders | Jan 3, 2022 | Data Recovery
Users of QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices are reporting attacks on their systems with the eCh0raix ransomware, also known as QNAPCrypt. The instigators who pushed this malware increased activity about a week before Christmas, taking control of the devices...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 25, 2021 | Data Recovery
If you own an Imac chances are it is using a Fusion drive and this article could well be of interest. Apple Inc. launched Fusion Drive – a combination of a solid state and platter-based hard drive aimed to take the best of two worlds, i.e. modern flash and ordinary...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 25, 2021 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files
A solid-state drive is a device full of flash memory chips. To be able to read and manipulate the data on these chips the operating system needs a way to arrange the data on a SSD . Data stored on an SSD is divided into blocks of data. These blocks are, in turn,...
