In these articles, here, here and here, I test various diy data recovery software against an old disk I dug up. In this article I will dig a little deeper into this so we can analyze what’s the trouble with this disk. This article will get a bit technical but it follows very simple logic, so give… Read More: Data Recovery from unknown disk – background »
This article is a continuation of the article ‘Data Recovery from unknown disk‘ in which I examine a corrupt hard disk and try to find out what various DIY Data Recovery tools can recover from the disk. Last updated: 19 Oct 2016 – MiniTool Power Data Recovery In queue are: In short: The disk appears to be… Read More: DIY Data Recovery from unknown disk … (2) »
Data Recovery Software reviewed: iRecover, Recover My Files, Data Recovery Wizard and Wondershare Data Recovery. So … Found one of my old hard disks today and decided to see what’s on it. It appears empty. As soon as Windows sees the disk it prompts me initialize the disk. Disk Management shows the disk as unallocated.… Read More: Data Recovery from unknown disk … »
The NTFS file system uses the $Bitmap file to track vacant vs. in use clusters. As a cluster is either in use or not, it is represented by a zero or a one. A single bit per cluster is enough to store this information. It is literally nothing more than a collection of ones and zeros… Read More: The NTFS $Bitmap file »
It has come to my attention that several websites are offering a portable version of DiskTuna. As I was curious I downloaded a few. I advise NOT to download these versions as they seem to be installing unwanted software as well. They are typically offered as .RAR or .ZIP files and are larger than the… Read More: DiskTuna 1.2.3 portable »
DiskTuna VSS Safe-mode DiskTuna features a ‘VSS safe mode’. But that’s just a name that I made up. Many defraggers offer a ‘VSS aware’ or ‘VSS compatible’ option. VSS-aware defragmentation will always make defragmentation and optimization less effective. But what is it? What does it do? What is VSS anyway? Windows Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) VSS… Read More: VSS safe mode, what is it? »
Quite a bit has changed since the inception of DiskTune, for example SSD harddisks are now widely available. Consensus is that defragging a SSD hard disk is unnecessary and even undesired [1]? Hmm, interesting read. Anyway, it would be a good idea for DiskTuna to determine if a volume resides on a conventional hard disk or a… Read More: Defrag and SSD hard disks and VSS and more »