Author Archives: Joep

Recover data from a RAW partition using ReclaiMe

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Recommended data recovery programs (DiskTuna Approved): UFS Explorer www.ufsexplorer.com. Very well rounded tool supporting many filesystems and advanced storage technologies such as RAID and numerous encryption techniques. Moderately difficult to use. This is your best bet when trying to recover data from NAS devices. [Mac/Win/Lin]{FAT|NTFS|ReFS|HFS+|APFS|EXT|BTRFS|UFS|XFS|ZFS|+More +RAID} R-Studio www.r-tt.com. Well rounded tool with a… Read More »

Hard disk diagnostics and bad sector repair using DiskPatch

Using DiskPatch you can repair bad sectors very much like a utility like Spinrite but without the hocus-pocus-factor. Hard disk diagnostics using SMART DiskPatch (DIY DataRecovery.nl) includes a S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic utility. Since DiskPatch runs from a boot USB key it can even check disk health if the PC fails to boot. To create a DiskPatch… Read More »

Why you’ll never see me buy a WD My Passport

EDIT august 2019: Look at the number of issues with locked external WD disks. If your enclosure ever breaks, you’ll lose all data on the disk. With a non encrypted disk you’d just open enclosure and move the disk to a new enclosure and all would be okay. NOT with those encrypting WD external drives.… Read More »

Photo recovery software: Intact previews, but corrupt photos

An often heard complaint after using digital image recovery software, is that it shows intact previews, but recovers corrupt photos. How does this happen? The preview is not the actual image data To understand how this can happen we need to have closer look at the internal structures of popular image formats. The most common image formats… Read More »

Hard Disk Sentinel HDD Health Monitor

HD Sentinel is a memory resident tool that monitors the health of hard disks and solid state drives using S.M.A.R.T.. All hard disks die. It’s a fact of life you better prepare for. In the first place by backing up your data. But even with your data backed up it is good to have an… Read More »

Examine and repair corrupt JPG files before ordering JPEG Repair Service

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It’s a good idea to examine corrupt or damaged JPG files before submitting them for repair to our JPEG Repair Service. Every now and then I am offered corrupt JPEGs that are beyond repair. I can not repair them and I am pretty confident no one else can either. There are times when JPEGs are simply… Read More »

Using Reclaime Free RAID Recovery with iRecover

Finding out which file is affected by a bad sector

Hard disk ‘repair’ software like Spinrite, DiskPatch or the hard disk manufacturer diagnostic software often identifies bad sectors in the form of an LBA address (logical block addressing). A commonly asked question is, “how do I determine, which file is affected by a bad sector?”. What is bad sector repair? Bad sector repair utilities do not actually… Read More »

The excellent VOPT defrag. Free license!

“In accordance with Barry’s (Howard Barry Emerson) wish, Vopt is his bequest to Windows PC users”. Vopt Defrag VOPT Defrag (pronounce vee-opt) is one of the oldest still around disk defrag programs. It originally ran under MS-DOS. Although I like VOPT a lot, that didn’t keep me from writing own defrag utility. Some of the features for that… Read More »

iRecover NAS Data Recovery

Notice: As iRecover is no longer available I’m afraid you will need to look for an alternative. In this article there are some suggestions for NAS Data Recovery Software: https://www.disktuna.com/nas-data-recovery-software/ I was contacted by an iRecover user that was trying to do a NAS Data Recovery. It is clear to me from the start that… Read More »