by Digby Saunders | Jun 25, 2022 | Bad Sectors, Data Recovery, firmware corruption, Hard Drive Electronics
Many hard drives will show signs there is a problem before experiencing a full crash. If your hard drive shows any of the following, back up your data before the actual crash occurs in order to retrieve data which can be recovered. Some common symptoms of impending...
by Digby Saunders | Jun 21, 2022 | Data Recovery
Hikvision is a well-known brand for Ultra High-Definition Cameras, which provides premium quality images and video recording for surveillance or security systems. Hikvision is known for making great hardware, and their CCTV cameras are robust; they have great products...
by Digby Saunders | Apr 3, 2022 | Data Recovery, EXT4, Hard Drives
How to use FSCK for Data Recovery with Linux. The fsck (File System Consistency Check) utility checks a Linux filesystems for errors or corruptions. fsck comes by with all Linux distributions and is similar to the CHKDSK command in Windows. The fsck utility is used to...
by Digby Saunders | Apr 1, 2022 | Data Recovery
Today we are going to talk about some of the most common problems faced with SQL databases and methods to fix data recovery problems with SQL . We will use Kernel SQL Database Recovery tool, specifically designed for data recovery with SQL databases. There has been...
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...
